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terminal cluster. The peduncles and pedicels 

 are reddish and clothed with soft down. Late 

 August, September. 



Leaves. — The simple, opposite leaves are 

 ovate or elliptical. The tip is pointed and the 

 base is rounded or often uneven, one side being 

 longer than the other. The stems and under 

 leaf surfaces are downy, sometimes rusty. 



Floivers. — The small white flowers grow in 

 flat compact cymes. June. 



This shrub is erect and somewhat spreading. 

 Its green bark has a reddish tinge and in winter 

 the branches become purplish. The branchlets, 

 stems, and lower leaf surfaces are finely woolly. 

 It is one of the latest of the family to blossom 

 but fruits in company with the Panicled Cornel, 

 the two often forming hedges along the fence 

 rows and highways. It is very decorative in 

 fruit, and is being more and more used by 

 landscape gardeners. It grows quite exten- 

 sively as far west as the Dakotas and south 

 to the gulf. 



