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Dogwood (Cornacece) 



beset with remote prickles. Stems and branches, set 



with short, stout prickles. 

 Fruit, black or dark purple, five-celled, five-seeded, 



crowned with the remains of the calyx and styles. 



A berry-like drupe. 

 Found, on river banks and in damp woods, Pennsylvania, 



and Ohio, and southward, and often in cultivation. 

 A shrub or small tree eight to twelve feet high, with 

 the great compound leaves mostly crowded toward the 

 ends of the branches, and fierce with its club-like prickly 

 stems. In the South it gains a height sometimes of 

 twenty to thirty feet, with straight, bare trunk, showing a 

 more palm-like style than any other of our trees. 



19. Family CORNACE^. (Dogwood Fam.) 

 Genus CORNUS, Tourn. (Dogwood, Cornel.) 



From a word meaning " horn," referring to the hardness of the wood. 



Flowers, whitish, small, in flat or convex clusters. Petals, 

 four, not united, oblong, spreading. Calyx, minutely 

 four-toothed. Stamens, four. Style, one. Seed-case, 

 one, adherent to the calyx, two-celled, two-seeded. 



Leaves, simple, opposite (except in C. alt ernif olid], entire. 

 Veins, prominent, strongly and regularly curved. 

 Bark, bitter and tonic. 



Fruit, small, rounded, crowned with the remains of the 

 flowers ; berry-like, with a two-celled and two-seeded 

 stone. A berry-like drupe. 



Fi S- 55-~Round- Leaved Cornel. Round-Leaved Dogwood. 



C. circinata, L" Her. 



Flowers, in flat loose clusters.- June. 



Leaves, round, oval, three to five inches long, larger than 

 in any other of the Dogwoods, thickly white woolly 

 beneath. Branches, greenish, dotted with warts. 



Fruit, light blue, soft, hollow at the base. September. 



