Handbook of Trees of the ^N'ortiiern States axb Canada. 361 



The rvou<i;li-leaved Dogwood is a small tree 

 only in a limited portion of its great range, 

 which extends from the Atlantic coast nearly 

 to the limits of tree growth on the w.estern 

 plains and from Canada to the (lulf of Mexico. 

 Usually a shrub it becomes a tree on the rich 

 bottom-lands of southern Arkansas, eastern 

 Texas and northern Louisiana. Here, in com- 

 pany with the Pecan and Nutmeg Hickory. 

 Prickly Ash, Rusty Nannyberry, Mississippi 

 Hackberry, Soapberry, Drummon and Red 

 Maples, the Water Oak, etc., it attains the 

 height of 40 or 50 ft. with irregular open top 

 and tnink sometimes 8 or 10 in. in diameter. 

 It is an especially beautiful object in early 

 summer when bearing its many clusters of 

 creamy white flowers and in autumn with its 

 red-stemmed bunches of white berries. 



The wood is heavy, hard, strong and of fine 



grain, adapted to iise in turnery. 



Leaves mostly ovate to elliptic and oval, aciiti'. 

 obtuse or almost rounded at base, long-acuminai''. 

 with undulate nearly entire mai'gins, tomentose at 

 first, but at maturity dark green and rough with 

 short stiff hairs above, paler and pubescent or 

 glaucous beneath ; petioles slender, rough pubes- 

 cent, as is all new growth. Flowers (late spring) 

 creamy white, in rather loose-flowered terminal 

 compound long-peduncled cymes : petals narrow, 

 oblong, acute finally reflexed. Fruit subglobose. 

 about i/i in. in diameter, white, tipped with the 

 remnants of the style and in loose spreadini; 

 clusters : flesh thin and bitter and stone 1-2- 

 seeded slightly several-grooved lengthwise. 



