i 3 8 KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES 



CORNEL, DOGWOOD. Leaves simple, with veins 

 curving well up towards the apex. Flowers 

 4-parted. Fruit pulpy, globular, contain- 

 ing a single 2-seeded, 2-celled stone. The 



Fig. 263. Flower- 

 ing Dogwood. 



Fig. 264. Flowering Dogwood. 



Poison Dogwood is a Sumach, and does not 

 belong here. 



201. Leaves opposite. The small close cluster of 

 greenish flowers surrounded in such a way, 

 by 4 large conspicuous white petal-like 

 bracts, as to make the whole cluster appear 

 like a single flower 2 or 3 inches across. 



