270 DOGWOOD FAMILY 



monoecious plants, pistil subtended by 8 persistent, narrow bracts which 

 form a bristly involucre in the ripe fruit ; fruit a bony oblong nut. 

 A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 



Comptonia peregrina (Linne) Coulter 1894 

 Myrica asplenifolia Linne 1753 



A shrub 3-6 dm. high ; leaves linear-lanceolate, pinnatifid and fern- 

 like, sweet-scented, acute or rounded at the apex, lobes rounded or pointed, 

 entire or acute, sparingly pubescent, 6-12 cm. long, 10-15 mm. wide, 

 petioles about 5 mm. long, stipules half-cordate, usually deciduous; stam- 

 inate catkins clustered at the ends of branches, 3-4 cm. long; pistillate 

 catkins becoming bur-like in fruit, about 1 cm. in diameter : peregrina, 

 wandering. In dry, sanely soil, frequent northeastward, occuring scattered 

 farther south to Pine county and southwest to Cass Lake. Also reported 

 from near Excelsior, Hennepin County, but it is doubtful if it occurs 

 there. From Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south to North Carolina, End. 

 and Mich. Blossoms in April and May, fruits in autumn. 



Umbellales Carrot Order 

 Cornaceae Dogwood Family 



Shrubs or small trees, rarely herbs; leaves simple, opposite, verticil- 

 late or alternate, usually entire; flowers perfect, polygamous or dioecious, 

 in cymes or heads, calyx 4-5 parted or toothed, adnate to the top of the 

 ovary, petals 4-5, valvate or imbricated, inserted at the edge of the disk, 

 stamens as many as the petals, and alternating with them, or more 

 numerous, ovary inferior, 1-2 celled, style 1, ovule 1 in each cell; fruit a 

 1-2 celled, 1-2 seeded drupe. 



Only two genera of the family occur in North America, one of which 

 is represented in the Minnesota flora. 



Cornus Linne 1753 

 (L. Cornus, cornel, perhaps from c o r n u, horn) 



Shrubs or trees (occasionally herbs) ; leaves simple, mostly entire, 

 opposite, verticillate or sometimes alternate; flowers small, white or green 

 ish, in cymes or heads, (when in heads subtended by large, white, petal- 

 like bracts in our species), calyx-tube campanulate, 4-toothcd, petals 4, 

 spreading, stamens 4. ovary 2-celled, 1 ovule in each cell, stigma truncate 

 or capitate; fruit an ovoid or globular drupe, stone 2-celled and 2-seeded. 



