CORNACE^— DOGWOOD FAMILY 



*^ DWARF CORNEL. BUNCHBERRY 



Cornus Canadensis 



A low, herbaceous shrub, possessing the characteristic 

 blossoms of the Flowering Dogwood. Cool, moist woods. 

 Newfoundland to Alaska, south to New Jersey, Ohio, 

 Indiana, Minnesota, Colorado, and California. Rare in 

 northern Ohio. May, June. 



Rootstock. — Slender, creeping, rather woody. 



Stem. — Flowering stems scaly, three to nine inches high, 

 four-sided, and grooved. 



Leaves. — Upper leaves crowded into an apparent 

 whorl in sixes or fours, ovate or oval, entire, pointed, con- 

 spicuously veined; lower leaves scale-like. 



Flowers. — Small, greenish, surrounded by a large white 

 involucre of four ovate leaflets. 



Calyx. — Tubular, minutely four-toothed. 



Petals. — Four, oblong, spreading, greenish. 



Stamens. — Four; filaments slender. 



Pistil. — Ovary one, two-celled; style slender; stigma 

 flat. 



Fruit. — A bunch of bright-red, globular drupes. 



The Bunchberry is a tiny shrub that looks like an 

 herb, blossoms among the early flowers in the heart of 

 the woods, carpets the forest floor of its chosen haunts 

 with a spread of foliage during the summer, and in 



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