386 CORNUS 



Introduced about 1899, but probably in cultivation long before as C. Amomum. 

 It is less compact in habit than that species. 



C. ASPERIFOLIA, Michaux. 



A deciduous shrub, 10 to 15 ft. high ; twigs reddish brown. Leaves ovate 

 or oval, 2 to 4 ins. long, about half as wide ; slender-pointed, tapering or 

 rounded at the base, upper surface dark green and rough, with minute, flattened, 

 stiff hairs ; lower surface pale and with thicker, softer down ; veins in about 

 five pairs ; stalk to f in. long, grooved, downy. Flowers yellowish white, 

 to \ in. across, produced in rounded corymbs i^ to 2^ ins. in diameter ; 

 petals narrowly oblong, calyx downy and with very minute teeth. Fruit round, 

 white, \ in. across. 



Native of the eastern and Central United States, found occasionally as a 

 tree nearly 50 ft. high in Arkansas and Texas (Sargent). It reaches as far 

 north as Lake Erie, and appears to be quite hardy near London. It has little, 

 however, to recommend it as a garden shrub. 



C. BAILEYI, Coulter. 



An erect, deciduous shrub, up to 10 ft. high, with downy shoots turning 

 reddish brown by winter. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, slender-pointed, rounded 

 at the base ; 2 to 5 ins. long, i to 2^ ins. wide ; with minute flattened hairs 

 above, and, when young, with a dense covering of woolly down as well as 

 flattened hairs beneath ; stalks slender, \ to f in. long. Flowers small, in 

 woolly-stalked cymes i to 2 ins. across. Fruit white, \ in. across. 



Native of Eastern N. America ; introduced in 1892. It has been much 

 confused with C. stolonifera, from which it differs in the shoots and lower 

 surface of the leaves being distinctly woolly, and in not being stoloniferous; 

 the bark also is duller and browner. It is usually found on sandy shores, and 

 is recommended for light soils. 



C. CANDIDISSIMA, Marshall. 



(C. paniculata, L'HeritierC) 



A much-branched, deciduous shrub, 8 or 10 ft. high, of bushy habit, with 

 greyish bark ; young shoots smooth. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, long and slender pointed, i^ to 3^ ins. long, half as 

 wide ; dark green above, pale or whitish beneath ; both surfaces at first 

 furnished with flattened, minute hairs, which largely fall away by autumn ; 

 veins in three or four pairs. Flowers small, white, borne in great profusion in 

 June and July, in short cymose panicles about 2 ins. wide, terminating every 

 twig. Fruit white, roundish, but depressed at the top, j in. diameter ; the 

 stalks bright red. 



Native of the eastern and Central United States; introduced in 1758. 

 As a latish flowering shrub this cornel has much to recommend it, for it is 

 usually laden with blossom shortly after midsummer. Unfortunately it does 

 not set its fruit here with the freedom that makes it so attractive in the 

 United States. It is neater and less rampant in growth than those of the 

 alba and stolonifera groups. 



Between C. candidissima and C. Purpusii (see under C. Amomum) there is 

 a hybrid called C. ARNOLDIANA, Rehder. It originated in the Arnold 

 Arboretum about tfw end of last century. Compared with candidissima, it 

 is of more spreading habit ; the year-old branches are purple ; inflorescence 



