i26 Dogwood ( Cornacece) 



Found, from Maryland westward and northward, on 



shady banks, and in thickets. 

 A shrub four to ten feet high, with straight and 



slender branches. 



Silky Cornel or Dogwood. Kinnikinnik. C. sericea, L. 



Flowers, in flat and close clusters. June. 



Leaves, two to four inches long and half as broad, narrow 

 egg-shape to lance-shape. Base, rounded and some- 

 times tapering, silky downy beneath. Branches, 

 purplish. Young shoots, dark red. Branchlets and 

 stalks, silky downy. 



Fruit, blue. 



Found, in wet ground, United States and Canada. 



A shrub three to ten feet high. 

 Long- Leaved Cornel or Dogwood. C. asperifblia, Michx. 



Flowers, in flat clusters. 



Leaves, egg-shape and oblong. Apex, pointed. Base, 

 rounded or pointed, rough above, soft downy be- 

 neath. Leaf-stem, rough and rather short. Branches, 

 brownish. Branchlets, rough. 



Fruit, white, rounded, often with red stems. 



Found, from the northern shore of Lake Erie to Minne- 

 sota, and southward. 

 A tall shrub. 

 Red-Osier Dogwood or Cornel. C. stolonifera, Michx. 



Flowers, in small, flat, and smooth clusters of rather few 

 and loosely arranged blossoms. 



Leaves, broad egg-shape. Base, rounded. Apex, short- 

 pointed, minutely downy above, whitish downy be- 

 neath. Branches and branchlets, smooth ; the shcots 

 (and usually the branches) reddish-purple toward 

 the end of winter almost blood-red. 



