262 CoRNACEAE. 
Cornus. Dogwood. Cornel. 
(Family Cornaceae). 
Shrubs or occasionally small 
trees: deciduous. Twigs moder- 
ate or rather slender, often bright- 
colored, round or more or less 6- 
sided: pith moderate, round or 
more or less compressed or an- 
gled, white and continuous or 
somewhat colored and spongy. 
Buds solitary or exceptionally su- 
perposed, stalked, characteristi- 
cally oblong, with a pair of near- 
ly or quite valvate scales consist- 
ing of more or less developed 
leaves or less commonly of peti- 
oles with blade-rudiments at top. 
Leaf-scars opposite except in one 
species, crescent-. or U-shaped, com- 
monly raised during the first win- 
ter on petiole-bases that are later 
deciduous at the level of the twig: 
bundle-traces 3: stipule-scars lack- 
ing, but the leaf-scars meet or are transversely joined. (Cy- 
noxzylon, Svida). 
Winter-character references:—Cornus alba. Bosemann, 
58; Brendel, pl. 3; Schneider, f. 195. OC. alternifolia. Blakes- 
lee & Jarvis, 333, 552; Otis, 206; Schneider, f. 195. CO. Amo- 
mum (C. sericea). Hitchcock (3), 15. OC. asperifolia. Hitch- 
cock (3), 15, (4), 137, f. 75-76. C. circinata. Schneider, f. 194. 
C. florida. Blakeslee & Jarvis, 329, 552, pl.; Hitchcock (1), 3; 
Otis, 204. C. ignorata. Shirasawa, 269, pl. 10. OC. Kouwsa. 
Shirasawa, 272, pl. 10. C. macrophylla. Shirasawa, 283, pl. 
13. C. mas (C. mascula). Bosemann, 57; Schneider, f. 194; 
Willkomm, 56, f. 92; Zuccarini, 21, pl. 12. OC. officinalis. Shi- 
