Dogwood ( Cornacece) \ 2 7 



Fruit, white or bluish-white. 



Found, in wet places ; common, especially northward. 



A shrub three to six feet high, with slender, spreading 

 branches. It multiplies freely by sending up long, wand- 

 like shoots " suckers " soon forming broad clumps. 



Panicled Cornel or Dogwood. C. candidissima, Marsh. C. 

 panicul&ta, L'Her. 



Flowers, in many small, loose, convex, or cone-shaped 



clusters. May, June. 

 Leaves, one to three inches long, egg-shape to long oval. 



Apex, taper-pointed. Base, acute or rounded, whitish 



beneath, not downy. Branches, grayish, smooth. 



Shoots, chestnut-color. 

 Fruit, white, rounded, the size of peas, with the stalk, 



when ripe, of a pale scarlet. August, September. 



Found, in thickets, along river banks, etc. ; common. 



A shrub four to ten feet high, much branching, showy, 

 with its abundant flower and fruit clusters. 



Alternate-Leaved Cornel or Dogwood. C. alternifblia, L. f. 

 Flowers, in wide open clusters. May, June. 

 Leaves, alternate, mostly clustered at the ends of the 

 branches, egg-shape to reverse egg-shape. Apex, 

 pointed. Base, pointed, minutely downy beneath. 

 Branches, greenish, oftenest marked with white, 

 warty streaks. 

 Fruit, rounded, deep blue or black on reddish fruit-stalks, 



much liked by the birds. August. 



Found, from Georgia and Alabama, northward and west- 

 ward. 



A shrub or small tree ten to twenty feet high, beauti- 

 ful in cultivation. The bark forms one of the " Quaker 

 medicines," being considered diaphoretic and astringent. 



