Dogwood 



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Fig. 682. Dogwood, New York Botanical Garden. 



ing many leaf scars. The terminal winter buds are oblong, covered by two oppo- 

 site scales; the flower buds are terminal, subglobose, covered by 4 scales, which 

 enlarge and become white in spring, and form the involucre. The leaves are 

 thick and firm, elliptic to ovate, 6 to 18 cm. long, rather sharply taper- pointed, 

 narrowed or rounded at the base to the stout, grooved leaf-stalk, slightly toothed 



