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7. Cornus Baileyi Coult. & Evans. 
Bailey’s Cornel or Dogwood. 
(Fig. 2716.) 
Cornus Baileyi Coult. & Evans, Bot. Gaz. 15: 37. 
1890. 
A shrub with reddish twigs, much resembling 
the preceding species. Leaves slender-petioled, 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at 
the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, gla- 
brate, or with finely appressed soft pubescence 
above, rather densely woolly-pubescent beneath, 
1/-5’ long; petals white, ovate-oblong; cymes 
compact, 1/2’ broad, the rays pubescent; fruit 
‘white, about 3’’ in diameter; stone flattened, 
slightly oblique, channeled on the edge, much 
broader than high. 
Lake shores and in moist ground, Presque Isle, 
Pennsylvania to Minnesota and the Northwest Ter- 
ritory, Wyoming (and Nebraska?). May-June. 
8. Cornus stolonifera Michx. Red-osier Cornel or Dogwood. (Fig. 2717.) 
TP 9 ny C. alba Lam. Encycl.2:115. 1786. Not lL. 1767. 
> LS PRY. \ ei C. stolontfera Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 92. 1803. 
ae JAC IS / A shrub, 3°-15° high, usually stolonifer- 
{ iy’ / ous, the twigs glabrous and bright reddish 
purple, or the youngest finely appressed-pu- 
bescent. Leaves slender-petioled, ovate, 
ovate-lanceolate or oval, acute or short- 
acuminate at the apex, rounded or narrowed 
at the base, finely appressed-pubescent 
above, white or whitish and sparingly pubes- 
cent beneath, or sometimes glabrous on both 
sides, 1/-5’ long; cymes 1/-2/ broad, flat- 
topped, usually minutely appressed-pubes- 
cent; petals white, ovate-oblong; fruit white 
or whitish, globose, 3/’-4/’ in diameter, the 
stone very variable in shape, either higher 
than broad or broader than high. 
In moist soil, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 
to British Columbia, south to Virginia, Ken- 
tucky, Nebraska, Arizona and California. As- 
cends to 2400 ft. in the Adirondacks. June-July. 
g- Cornus candidissima Marsh. Pan- 
icled Cornel or Dogwood. (Fig. 2718.) 
Cornus candidissima Marsh, Arb. Am. 35. 1785. 
Cornus paniculata 1, Her. Cornus, 9. pl. 15. 1788. 
A shrub, 615° high, with gray smooth 
twigs, even the youngest glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaves petioled, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
long-acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, 
minutely appressed-pubescent on both sides, 
pale beneath, 144/-4’ long; cymes loosely _ 
flowered, somewhat paniculate, the rays mostly 
glabrous; petals white, lanceolate; fruit glo- 
bose, or slightly depressed, white, about 3// in 
diameter; stone subglobose, slightly furrowed, 
or somewhat broader than high. 
In rich soil, Maine (and Ontario?) to North 
Carolina, west to Minnesota and Nebraska. May- 
June. 
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