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7. Cornus Baileyi Coult. & Evans. 



Bailey's Cornel or Dogwood. 



(Fig. 2716.) 



Cornus Baileyi Coult. & Evans, Bot. Gaz. 15: 37. 

 1890. 



A shrub with reddish twigs, much resembling 

 the preceding species. Leaves slender- petioled, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at 

 the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, gla- 

 brate, or with finely appressed soft pubescence 

 above, rather densely woolly-pubescent beneath, 

 i '-5' long; petals white, ovate-oblong; cymes 

 compact, i / -2 / broad, the rays pubescent; fruit 

 white, about 3" in diameter; stone flattened, 

 slightly oblique, channeled on the edge, much 

 broader than high. 



Lake shores and in moist ground, Presque Isle, 

 Pennsylvania to Minnesota and the Northwest Ter- 

 ritory, Wyoming (and Nebraska?). May-June. 



8. Cornus stolonifera Michx. 



Red-osier Cornel or Dogwood. (Fig. 2717.) 



C. alba Lam. Encycl. a: 115. 1786. Not L. 1767. 

 C. slolonifera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 92. 1803. 



A shrub, 3-i5 high, usually stolonifer- 

 ous, the twigs glabrous and bright reddish 

 purple, or the youngest finely appressed-pu- 

 bescent. Leaves slender-petioled, ovate, 

 ovate-lanceolate or oval, acute or short- 

 acuminate at the apex, rounded or narrowed 

 at the base, finely appressed-pubescent 

 above, white or whitish and sparingly pubes- 

 cent beneath, or sometimes glabrous on both 

 sides, i '-5' long; cymes i'-2' broad, flat- 

 topped, usually minutely appressed-pubes- 

 cent; petals white, ovate-oblong; fruit white 

 or whitish, globose, 3 // -4 // in diameter, the 

 stone very variable in shape, either higher 

 than broad or broader than high. 



In moist soil, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 

 to British Columbia, south to Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky, Nebraska, Arizona and California. As- 

 cends to 2400 ft. in the Adirondacks. June-July. 



9. Cornus candidissima Marsh. Pan- 

 icled Cornel or Dogwood. (Fig. 2718.) 



Cornus candidissima Marsh, Arb. Am. 35. 1785. 

 Cornus panicHlata'L l ''Ker. Cornus, 9. />/.'/j. 1788. 



A shrub, 6-i5 high, with gray smooth 

 twigs, even the youngest glabrous or nearly so. 

 Leaves petioled, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 long-acuuiinate at the apex, acute at the base, 

 minutely appressed-pubescent on both sides, 

 pale beneath, i^ / -4 / long; cymes loosely 

 flowered, somewhat paniculate, the rays mostly 

 glabrous; petals white, lanceolate; fruit glo- 

 bose, or slightly depressed, white, about 3" in 

 diameter; stone subglobose, slightly furrowed, 

 or somewhat broader than high. 



In rich soil, Maine (and Ontario?) to North 

 Carolina, west to Minnesota and Nebraska. May- 

 June. 



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