HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



4. Stamens, 4, with slender filaments. Style, 1. Flowers, gath- 

 ered into broad, open, flat cymes, without the white involucre 

 which we know in the flowering dogwood, the tree which, because 

 of this involucre, is the most showy of the genus, making our 

 spring woods bright. Berries of the round-leaved cornel light 

 blue. May and June. 



Shrub, 6 to 10 feet high, with greenish, warty - dotted 

 branches. Rich or poor soil, in rocky woods, Maine to 

 Virginia, west to Illinois and Iowa. 



Silky Cornel. Kinnikinnick 



C. Ambmum. — A shrub 3 to 10 feet high, with flowers and fruit 

 much like the last. Leaves, narrower, ovate or elliptical, pointed, 

 silky-downy, pale green underneath. Branches, purplish. Whole 

 shrub downy or often rusty. Flowers, in compact cymes. Fruit, 

 light blue. June and July. 



Wet places in all the Eastern States. (See illustration, 

 p. 407.) 



Red-osier Dogwood 



C. stolonifera. — This shrub, 3 to 15 feet high, may be known 

 by its bright red branches, especially when young. Leaves, 

 rounded at base, ovate, short-pointed, whitish underneath, rough 

 on both sides. Flowers, few, in small, flat cymes. Berries, white 

 or grayish white. This is a shrub that makes thick clumps of 

 growth by means of underground or prostrate suckers. June. 



Common throughout New England and across the con- 

 tinent, northward. 



C. paniculate has smooth, gray branches. Leaves, ovate to 



lance-shape tapering at apex, acute at base, pale underneath. 



Flowers, white, in elongated cymes or panicles. Fruit, white, on 

 pale red stalks. June and July. 



A slender shrub found on river-banks, beside streams, and 

 in moist thickets from Maine to Minnesota and southward. 

 The leaves of the shrubs of this Family turn beautiful shades 

 of yellow and red in the fall. 



Stiff Cornel 

 C, strida. — A Southern species, 8 to 15 feet high, with gray 

 branches, flowers in loose cymes, with blue anthers and blue fruit. 

 April and May. 



In swamps, Virginia to Florida, westward to Missouri. 



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