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4. C. seric'ea, L. (SILKY CORNEL.) A large shrub 

 with purplish branches. Leaves opposite, narrowly ovato 

 or oblong, silky beneath. Branchlets often rusty. Fruit 

 light blue. Distinguished from No. 3 by the colour of the 

 branches and the much smaller leaves. Low wet grounds. 



5. C. stolonifera, Michx. (RED-OSIER DOGWOOD.) A 

 shrub forming clumps by the production of suckers or stolons, 

 3-45 feeb high. Branches bright red-purple, smooth. Leaves 

 opposite, ovate, roughish, whitish beneath. Fruit white or 

 whitish. Low wet grounds. 



6. C. panieula'ta, L'Her. (PANICLED CORNEL.) A shrub 

 4-8 feet high, with erect, gray, and smooth branches. 

 Flowers white, very numerous. Leaves opposite, ovate- 

 lanceolate, taper-pointed. Cymes convex. Fruit white. 

 Thickets and river-banks. 



7. C. asperifo'lia, Michx., (ROUGH-LEAVED DOGWOOD) 

 is reported by Macoun as common on Point Pelee. Branches 

 brownish, the branchlets rough-pubescent. Leaves oppo- 

 site, rather small, oblong or ovate ; rough above, downy 

 beneath. Fruit bluish or white. 



8. C. alternlfo'lia, L. (ALTERNATE-LEAVED CORNEL.) A 

 large shrub or small tree, with alternate greenish branches 

 streaked with white. Leaves mostly alternate, oval, acute at 

 each end, crowded at the ends of the branches. Flowers 

 yellowish, in loose cymes. Fruit deep blue, on reddish 

 stalks. Thickets. 



9. NYSSA, L. PEPPKRIDGK. SOUR-GUM TREE. 

 N. sylvat'iea, Marsh. A middle-sized tree with hori- 

 zontal branches, reported from Niagara and soufch-western 

 Ontario. Sterile flowers in dense axillary clusters, with small 

 calyx, and small fleshy petals or none. Stamens mostly 10, but 

 sometimes fewer. Fertile flowers in clusters of 3-8, at the 

 summit of a slender axillary peduncle, larger than the stam- 

 inate ones. Style revolute. Ovary 1-celled. Drupe ovoid, 

 bluish-black, about half an inch long. 



