Cornaceae 205 



CORNACE^ 



Dogwood Family 



Shrubs or trees with simple, opposite, 

 verticillate or alternate leaves, usually entire ; 

 flowers in cymes, heads, or rarely solitary; 

 sepals and petals 4 or 5, stamens as many 

 as the petals or more numerous and inserted 

 with them; fruit a drupe. 



Smooth, herbaceous from a 

 nearly horizontal rootstock, 

 woody only at the base; flower- 

 ing stems, erect, scaly, 5-7 inches 

 high. Leaves verticillate at the 

 summit of the stem or sometimes 

 i or 2 pairs of opposite ones 

 below, sessile, oval, ovate or 

 obovate, smooth or minutely appressed, 

 pubescent, acute at each end or sometimes 

 rounded, at the base, entire, 1-3 inches long. 

 Flowers small, capitate, purple, surrounded 

 by a white involucre of 4-6 petaloid-ovate 

 bracts, J-f of an inch long; stamens alter- 



Cornus 



canadensis 



intermedia 



Farr. 



Dwarf 



Cornel. 



Bunch 



berry. 



