Dogwood Family 293 



inferior, 1-2-celled ; styles 1 or 2 ; ovules pendulous. 

 Fruit a drupe or berry, 1-2-seeded. 



Flowers perfect; petals present. 1. CORNUS. 



Flowers dioecious ; petals wanting. 2. GARRYA. 



1. CORNUS L. DOGWOOD. 



Shrubs or trees or rarely herbs, with simple mostly 

 entire and usually opposite, rarely verticillate leaves, 

 and small flowers in cymes or heads, the latter involu- 

 crate with large white bracts. Calyx-limb minutely 

 4-toothed. Petals 4, valvate. Stamens 4. Ovules 1 in 

 each cell. Drupe ovoid or globose, the stone 2-celled 

 and 2-seeded. 



1. C. occidentalis (T. & G.) Coville. Shrub, 2-5 m. high, 

 with smooth purplish branches ; leaves ovate to oblong-elliptic, 

 acute or somewhat acuminate, shortly cuneate at base, 5-10 cm. 

 long, paler beneath and more or less pubescent with loose silky 

 hairs, especially on the veins ; cyme spreading, round-topped, 3-5 

 cm. broad; fruit white, subglobose; stone 5 mm. broad, some- 

 what compressed, furrowed on the edges. (C. pubescens Nutt.) 



Occasional in moist ground, especially in the mountains, but reported from 

 Cienega by Davidson. 



2. GARRYA Dougl. SILK-TASSEL TREE. 



Evergreen shrubs with 4-angled branchlets, opposite 

 entire coriaceous leaves, the short petioles connate at 

 the base, and dioecious apetalous flowers in axillary 

 aments, solitary or in 3's between the decussately con- 

 nate bracts. Calyx of staminate flowers 4-parted, with 

 linear valvate segments. Stamens 4, with distinct fila- 

 ments. Disk and ovary none. Pistillate flowers with 

 the calyx-limb shortly 2-lobed or obsolete. Disk and 

 stamens none. Ovary 1-celled ; ovules 2 ; styles 2, stig- 

 matic on the inner side, persistent. Berry ovoid, 

 1-2-seeded. 



