168 CORNACEJE. (DOGWOOD FAMILY.) 
6 3 -10 p high. Leaves larger than in the other species, 4' - 5' in di¬ 
ameter. 
3. C* sericea, L. (Silky Cornel.) Branches purplish ; the 
brancklets , stalks, and lower surface of the narrowly ovate or elliptical 
pointed leaves silky-downy (often rusty) cymes flat, close ; calyx-teeth 
lanceolate; fruit pale blue. — Wet places along streams, common. 
June. Shrub 4°-10° high. Leaves pale and dull. Flowers yellow¬ 
ish-white. 
4. C. stolonifera, Michx. (Red-osier Cornel.) Branch- 
eS) especially the osier-like annual shoots bright red-purple , smooth; 
leaves ovate , rounded at the base, abruptly short-pointed, roughish 
with a minute close pubescence on both sides, whitish underneath; 
cymes small and flat , nearly smooth; fruit white or lead-color. — 
Bogs, and wet banks of streams, common, especially northward; 
the “ Osier rouge ” of the Canadians. It multiplies by prostrate or 
subterranean suckers, and forms large dense clumps, 3? — 6° high. 
June. 
5. C, paniculata, LTIer. (Panicled Cornel.) Branches 
gray, smooth; leaves ovate-lanceolate , taper-pointed, acute at the base, 
whitish but not downy beneath ; cymes convex , loose , often panicled ) 
fruit white , depressed-globose. — Thickets and hill-sides. June. —• 
Shrub 4° -8° high, very much branched, bearing a profusion of pure 
white blossoms. 
* Flowers in heads , or close clusters , which are surrounded by a petal¬ 
like 4-leaved involucre ; fruit bright red. 
6. C. florid a, L. (Flowering Dogwood.) Leaves ovate, 
pointed, acutish at the base, when young downy beneath; leaves of 
the involucre inversely heart-shaped , white, sometimes tinged with 
rose-color; flowers and fruit in a close head. — Rocky woods. May, 
June. Tree 12P-30 0 high, very showy in flower, scarcely less so 
in fruit. 
7. C. Canadensis, L. (Dwarf Cornel. Bunchberry.) 
Stems tow and simple (o' -7' high) from a slender creeping and sub¬ 
terranean rather woody trunk; leaves scarcely petioled, the lower 
scale-like; the upper apparently whorled in sixes or fours, ovate or 
oval, pointed; leaves of the involucre ovate , surrounding the incon¬ 
spicuous capitate cluster of flowers} fruit globular. — Damp cold 
woods. May —July. — Involucre greenish-white 1' broad: flowers 
greenish. Fruit berry-like, nearly tasteless. 
