392 CORNUS 



its "flowers" sometimes 6 ins. across; unfortunately it is not perfectly adapted 

 to the colder parts of Great Britain, but succeeds in the southern counties. 

 It is better under cultivation at Kew than C. florida, and flowers regularly. 

 The best specimen I know of is at Grays wood Hill, Haslemere, which a few 

 years ago was 15 ft. high, and flowered freely. 



C. PAUCINERVIS, Hance. 



A deciduous shrub, 6 ft. or more high ; young shoots angular, with very 

 minute appressed hairs at first, becoming smooth. Leaves narrowly oval; 

 tapering about equally towards both ends ; i J to 4 ins. long, | to if ins. wide 

 with two or three pairs of prominent longitudinal veins, both surfaces covered, 

 with minute appressed hairs. Flowers white, \ in. across, produced in rounded 

 hairy corymbs i\ to 3^ ins. across. Fruits black, globose, in. wide. The 

 most distinctive character of this species is the narrow shape and few veins of 

 its firm-textured leaves. The chief veins originate in pairs from the lower 

 part of the midrib, and after curving outwards bend inwards again towards the 

 top of the leaf. The shrub is pretty, and useful in flowering in late July and 

 August. 



Native of W. and Central China; introduced by Wilson in 1907. It first 

 flowered with the Hon. Vicary Gibbs at Aldenham, in 1911. 



C. PUBESCENS, Nuttall. 



A deciduous shrub, 6 to 18 ft. high in a wild state, with smooth, purple 

 branches. Leaves opposite, narrowly oval or ovate, i J to 4 ins. long, f to 2 

 ins. wide, tapered or somewhat rounded at the base, blunt or pointed, rarely 

 slender at the apex ; dark green and slightly hairy above ; pale and woolly 

 beneath. Flowers yellowish, crowded densely in compact, rounded, downy 

 cymes about 2 ins. across. Fruit white. 



Native of British Columbia south to California; introduced in 1874. It 

 blossoms towards the end of May and in June, and is pretty then. It is also 

 distinct in its dark purplish branches and in its leaves, woolly beneath. 



C. RUGOSA, Lamarck. 



(C. circinata, L'fferitier.') 



A deciduous shrub, 6 to 10 ft. high, sometimes single-stemmed and like a 

 small tree ; young shoots green, warted, becoming purplish. Leaves roundish, 

 inclined to ovate, abruptly pointed ; T.\ to 5 ins. long, nearly as wide ; almost 

 smooth above, but covered beneath with a dense greyish wool ; veins in six to 

 eight pairs ; stalk about \ in. long. Flowers white, in slightly downy cymes 

 2 to 3 ins. diameter. Fruit pale blue, about J in. diameter. 



Native of E. Canada and the United States ; introduced in 1784. This 

 species is very rarely seen in English gardens ; but as I saw it, covered with 

 flower in the Arnold Arboretum about mid-June a few years ago, it was quite 

 ornamental and had assumed the form of a miniature tree. Among the swarm 

 of North American cornels this can be distinguished by its almost orbicular 

 leaves, very downy beneath. 



C. SLAVINII, Rehder^ is a hybrid between C. circinata and C. stolonifera, 

 first noticed in Seneca Park, Rochester, New York, near the gorge of the 

 Genessee R.iver. The leaves are woolly beneath, and the young wood is purplish 

 as in C. circinata, but the habit is more that of C. stolonifera, only more 

 upright. Leaves intermediate in shape. (See Rhodora^ vol, xii., p. in.) 



