KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES 



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Fruit oblong, red, about ^ inch long. Cen- 

 tral New England southward and west- 

 ward. (Figs. 263, 264.) Flowering Dog- 

 wood, Boxwood, Dogwood, 

 Flowering Cornel, Cornus 

 florida L. 



201. Leaves alternate. Flowers 

 in large loose clusters (3 

 or more inches across), 

 with no petal-like bracts. 

 Fruit globular, blue, usu- 

 ally less than \ inch thick. 

 New Brunswick westward 

 and southward. (Fig. 265.) 

 Alternate-leaved Cornel, 

 Blue Dogwood, Green 

 Osier, Dogwood, Cornus 

 alter nifolia L. f. 



Fig. 265. Alter- 

 nate-1 e a v e d 

 Cornel. 



ASH. Leaves opposite, pinnately compound. Fruit 



with a long symmetrical flat wing. 

 202. Side leaflets without individual stalks 203. 



202. Side leaflets with short individual stalks 204. 



203. Leaflets green on both surfaces but somewhat 



darker above. Leaf axis (rhachis) usually 

 with thick reddish-brown wool at the base 

 of each leaflet. Crushed leaves with the 



