IVY : DOGWOOD 



331 



attracting flies ; protandrous, with exposed honey. Calyx- 

 teeth 5, minute. Petals 5, yellowish-green, epigynous. 



Fig. 136. Ivy, Hedera Helix. 1, flowering shoot ; 2, leaf of a barren 

 climbing shoot; 3, flower in vertical section, enlarged; 4, floral diagram ; 

 5, fruit; 6, seed, p. 330 (Wo). 



Stamens 5, epigynous. Anthers yellow. Ovary inferior, 

 5-chambered ; style 1, simple, very short. Fruit globoid, 

 as large as a pea, blue-black, pruinose, with green flesh. 



OZZ7 Flowers in dense rounded cymes, cream- 

 white. Not climbing or evergreen. 



Cornus sanguinea, L. Dogwood, Cornel (Fig. 137). 

 Shrub, with red twigs and opposite broadly ovate or oval 

 leaves. 



