500 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



Branches, dark red. Whole shrub silky or often rusty. Ber- 

 ries blue. Flowers in June. 



It grows in wet places in all the Atlantic States. 



70. Red-osier Dogwood 



C. stolonifera may be known by its bright -red branches, 

 especially when young. Leaves, rounded at base, ovate, short- 

 pointed, whitish underneath, rough on both sides. Floivcrs, in 

 June, few, in small, Hat cymes. Berries, white or grayish white. 

 This is a shrub that makes thick clumps of growth, by means 

 of underground or prostrate suckers. Height, 3 to 6 feet. 



Common throughout New England and across the continent 

 northward. 



71. Panicled Dogwood 



C. paniculata has gray, smooth branches. Leaves, pointed, 

 ovate to lance-shaped, pale underneath. Flowers, white, in 

 elongated cymes or short panicles. Fruit, white, on pale-red 

 stalks. A slender shrub, 4 to 8 feet high, found on river-banks 

 and beside streams. 



The leaves of the shrubs of this family turn beautiful shades 

 of yellow and deep red in fall. 



72. Stiff Cornel 



C. stricta is a Southern species, 8 to 15 feet high, with gray 

 branches, ovate to narrow leaves, flowers in loose cymes, and 

 fruit blue. Time, April and May. 



In swamps from Virginia to Florida. 



73. Elder. Elderberry 



Sambiicus Canadensis. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, 

 white. Leaves, pinnate; leaflets pointed, serrate, 5 to 11 ; 

 some 3-divided. Time, June and July. 



Calyx, small, tubular, with very small teeth. Corolla, urn- 



