2. Ge stolonifera. Michx. Dogwood. —-——>A shrub 1-4 m. tall, efwerted 
-habe® commonly dense and very leafy, the mature bark grey or light brown, 
rough, the fissures longitudinal, the younger bark green or red, glabrous 
or pubescent with appressed or spreading hairs; buds very slender, erect, 
reddish, pubescent, 5-12 mm. long; stems mumerous, ascending, the lowermost 
commonly prostrate at the base, frequently rooting at the nodes; leaves 5-15 
cme long, narrowly or broadly elliptical, less often ovate, acute or acumin- 
ate, the margin entire, both surfaces commonly appressed-pubescent or woolly 
on the lower surface at least along the veins, the lower much paler, the : 
petioles 1-2 cm. long; flowers in flat-topped clusters 4-6 cm. in diameter, > 
phe—bran Ln caaae od_simiterly+te—thetearsy; calyx lobes 
minute, triangular$ petals lanceolate, 325-5 mne long, slightly unequal, 
spreading, acute, the disc 1.5 mme broad, the outermost flowers perfect, 
the stamens erect, the innermost frequently pistillate only; berry flattened- 
globose, 7-8 mne in diameter, ivory-white to robins-egg blue, more or less 
pubescent, the seed flattened-rhombic, smooth, with usually 2 veins on each J 
surfaces —7(C. instolonea Nelsj-; z 
2Alc. pudescens Nutt.\J5 —————_ 7 
vs C. occidentalis Cove). 7 
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Throughout our range in stream bottoms, occasional in burns near 
streams; apparently a composite of two or more closely intergrading races. 
In a single thicket may be found numerous plants showing various degrees of 
| pubescence and various combinations of pubescence and berry color. The form 
%, with spreading wool is known as Ce. pubescens; as acai a to distinguish it 
e from C. occidentalis. 
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