CORNACE.E 



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until the end of October, in loose spreading red-stemmed clusters, subglobose, white, tipped 

 with the remnants of the style, about |' in diameter, with thin dry, bitter flesh, and a full 

 and rounded stone broader than high, somewhat oblique, slightly grooved on the edge, and 

 1 or 2-seeded; seeds nearly 3' long, with a pale brown coat. 



A tree, sometimes nearly 50 high, with a short trunk 8'-10' in diameter, thin erect wand- 

 like branches forming a narrow irregular rather open head, and slender branchlets marked 

 by numerous small pale lenticels, light green and puberulous when they first appear, pale 

 red, lustrous, and puberulous during their first winter, light reddish brown in their second 

 year, and ultimately light gray-brown or gray; usually shrubby. Winter-buds acute, com- 

 pressed, pubescent, sessile, or stalked, about |' long, with 2 pairs of opposite scales, the 

 terminal bud nearly twice as large as the compressed lateral buds. Bark of the trunk about 

 \ r thick, and divided by shallow fissures into narrow interrupted ridges broken into small 

 closely appressed dark red-brown scales Wood close-grained, hard, pale brown, with 

 thick cream-colored sapwood. 



Distribution. Southwestern Ontario (Point Pelee and Pelee Island), southward 

 through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi to western Florida (Gadsden and 

 Levy Counties) and westward to southeastern South Dakota, southeastern Nebraska, 

 central Kansas, northwestern Oklahoma (near Alva, Woods County) and western Texas 

 (Kerr, Menard and Brown Counties); probably only arborescent on the rich bottom- 

 lands of southern Arkansas and eastern Texas. 



4. Cornus altemifolia L. Dogwood. 



Leaves mostly alternate, clustered at the end of the branches, rarely opposite, oval or 

 ovate, gradually contracted at apex into a long slender point, cuneate or occasionally some- 



what rounded at base, obscurely crenulate-toothed on the slightly thickened and incurved 

 margins, coated when they unfold on the lower surface with dense silvery white tomentum, 

 and faintly tinged with red and pilose above, and at maturity thin, bright yellow-green, gla- 

 brous or sparsely pubescent on the upper surface, pale or sometimes nearly white and cov- 

 ered with appressed hairs on the lower surface, 3'-5' long and 2^'-3|' wide, with a broad 

 orange-colored midrib slightly impressed above, and about 6 pairs of primary veins parallel 

 with their sides; in the autumn turning yellow or yellow and scarlet; petioles slender, pubes- 

 cent, grooved, 1 1'-2' in length, with an enlarged clasping base. Flowers cream color, open- 

 ing from the beginning of May to the end of June on slender jointed pedicels f '-j' long, in 

 terminal flat puberulous many-flowered cymes \\'-2\' wide, mostly on lateral branchlets; 

 calyx cup-shaped, obscurely toothed; corolla-lobes narrow, oblong, rounded at apex, |' long, 

 reflexed after anthesis; style enlarged into a prominent stigma. Fruit in loose spreading 



