NUTTALL'S DOGWOOD (Cornus Nuttdllii, And.). Flowers 

 small and greenish in a button-like cluster surrounded by a 

 circle of 4 to 6 showy white or pinkish bracts that resemble 

 petals. Leaves opposite, acute at each end, strongly veined, 

 short petioled, turning brilliantly red and orange in the au- 

 tumn. A tree ordinarily 20 to 30 feet high, but sometimes 

 twice that; blooming in May or June, in the mountains gener- 

 ally near streams, both in the Coast Ranges and the Sierras 

 from Southern California to British Columbia. Occasion- 

 ally flowers are found upon the trees in autumn. 



Nuttall's Dogwood is readily recognized by any one famil- 

 iar with the Flowering Dogwood of the East, which it resem- 

 bles, but its blossoms are larger. The name preserves the 

 memory of Thomas Nuttall, the famous naturalist who visited 

 the Pacific Coast some 80 years ago and made important col- 

 lections. Readers of Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," 

 will remember the humorous description of him at San Diego, 

 where the sailors nicknamed him "Old Curious." 



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