CORNACE^ 



CORNELIAN CHERRY, Comns Mas. 



Shrubberies. A very beautiful early-flowering shrub, made especially 

 attractive by having a background of dark evergreens. February — April. 



Flowers bright yellow, small, appearing before leaves, in an umbel, involucre 

 4-leaved ; Fruit a drupe, cornelian-red, oval, \ in. long ; used for marmalade 

 and jelly. 



Leaves oval, acuminate, pubescent on both surfaces. 



A deciduous shrub, 15-20 ft. ; Branches smooth. 



Introduced from Europe (Austria), 1596. 



CORNEL OR DOGWOOD, Comus sangumea. 



Woods and hedgerows. June, July. The red bark makes this an attractive 

 shrub in winter. 



Flowers greenish-white, small, regular, having an unpleasant odour, in a 

 dense-flowered terminal corymbose cyme, without bracts, pedicels long ; Calyx 

 4-toothed, covered with down ; Petals 4, lanceolate, downy, valvate ; Stamens 4, 

 subulate, alternating with petals, inserted under yellow epigynous disk ; Ovary 

 inferior, 2-celled, style simple, terete ; Fruit a drupe, globular, almost black, 

 with whitish dots, very bitter, stone 2-celled. 



Leaves opposite, broadly ovate, shortly petiolate, entire or waved, acute, 

 hoary or silky when young, glabrous later, green, turning to red in autumn, 2-3 

 ins. long, petiole short. 



A deciduous shrub, 5-8 ft. ; Branches opposite, straight, dark-red when old ; 

 young shoots briglit red, pubescent ; Buds sessile, slender, pubescent ; Bark 

 scaly, fetid odour when bruised ; Wood used for skewers, and in manufacture of 

 gunpowder. 



Native of Britain. 



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