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wood which can hardly fail to impress us, and they have a 

 strange little way of puffing up in places as though the type of 

 conventional flatness had been routed from their household. 

 Popularly, it has been stated that a first glance at this tree is 

 prone to give rise to just a little uncertainty as to whether its 

 leaves are opposite in growth or alternate. The specimens, 

 however, that were examined to aid in writing this description, 

 had no such pernicious inclinations to lead one astray. The 

 growth of their leaves was all distinctively alternate. The 

 blossoms have no beautiful involucres as have the flowering dog- 

 woods, but a pretty showing is made by the many, tiny flowers 

 that are crowded together in the cymes. In the autumn the 

 foliage turns to yellow and scarlet, and the bright blue berries 

 dangle from coral-coloured stems. 



C. circinata, round-leaved dogwood or cornel, does not attain 

 a dignity beyond that of a shrub of from three to ten feet high. 

 Its branches appear to be covered with warts, and they are 

 streaked with white or green. The leaves are opposite, oval 

 and pubescent underneath. The flowers grow in very dense, 

 flat cymes. In almost any kind of soil the shrub will grow, 

 although it clings with some persistence to the edges and paths 

 of woods. From its bark cornine is largely extracted. 



C. stolonifera y red-osier dogwood and C. candidissima, panicled 

 dogwood, are both conspicuous shrubs along streams and in 

 damp thickets. The twigs of the former species are bright ref* 

 those of the latter are ashy in hue. 



CATALPA. INDIAN BEAN. CANDLE-TREE. 

 BEAN TREE. (Plate CIII.) 

 Catdlpa Catdlpa. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Trumpet-creeper. Head, broad, rounded ; 20-30-40 Gulf states June, July. 



branches, spreading. feet. northward. Fruit: Sept., Oct. 



Bark: dark grey; broken into small, flaky pieces. Leaves : simple; oppo- 

 site ; with long, round petioles ; broadly ovate, pointed at the apex or rarely 

 three-lobed, and slightly cordate at the base ; entire ; light green above and 

 glabrous; pubescent underneath, especially so along the ribs; peculiarly 



