CORNACE^} 787 



Mountains. Trees with rose-colored or with pink involucral scales occasionally occur (var. 

 rubra Andre). A variety with pendulous branches is known in gardens (var. pendula 

 Dipp.); the var. xanthocarpa near Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, 

 and at Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina. 



Often planted as an ornament of parks and gardens in the eastern states. 



2. Cornus Nuttallii Aud. Dogwood. 



Leaves ovate or slightly obovate, acute and often contracted into a short point at the 

 apex, cuneate at base, faintly crenulate-serrate, and generally clustered toward the end 

 of the branches, when they unfold coated below with pale tomentum and puberulous 

 above, and at maturity thin, bright green and slightly puberulous, with short appressed 

 hairs on the upper surface, and woolly pubescent on the lower surface, 4 '-5' long and If 

 -3' wide, with a prominent midrib impressed above, and about 5 pairs of slender primary 

 veins connected by remote reticulate veinlets; in the autumn turning bright orange and 

 scarlet before falling; petioles stout, grooved, pubescent, '-' in length, with a large clasp- 

 ing base. Flowers: head of flower-buds appearing during the summer between the upper 

 pair of lateral leaf-buds, surrounded at base but not inclosed by the involucral scales dur- 

 ing the winter, hemispheric, \' in diameter, usually nodding on a stout hairy peduncle f '-!' 

 long; involucral scales becoming when the flowers open If -3' long and If -2' wide, white 

 or white tinged with pink, oblong to obovate or nearly orbicular, and acute, acuminate. 



Fig. 705 



or obtuse, entire and thickened at apex, puberulous on the outer surface, gradually nar- 

 rowed below the middle and conspicuously 8-ribbed, the spreading ribs united by reticulate 

 veinlets; flowers in dense cymose heads from the axils of minute acuminate scarious de- 

 ciduous bracts; calyx terete, slightly urceolate, puberulous on the outer surface, yellow- 

 green, or light purple, with dark red-purple lobes; petals strap-shaped, rounded at apex, 

 spreading, somewhat puberulous on the outer surface, with thickened slightly inflexed mar- 

 gins, yellow-green; style crowned with a truncate stigma. Fruit ripening in October, hi 

 dense spherical heads of 30-40 drupes surrounded at base by a ring of abortive pendulous 

 ovaries, f long, ovoid, much flattened, crowned with the broad persistent calyx, bright red 

 or orange-colored, with thin mealy flesh, and a thick-walled 1 or 2-seeded stone obtuse at the 

 ends and scarcely grooved; seeds oblong, compressed, with a very thin pale papery coat. 

 A tree, 40-60, or exceptionally 100 high, with a trunk l-2 in diameter, small spread- 

 ing branches forming an oblong conic or ultimately round-topped head, and slender light 

 green branchlets coated while young with pale hairs, becoming glabrous or puberulous, dark 



