DOGWOOD FAMILY 



carrying the weather-beaten winter portion of the old 

 on the apex of the new. The notch on the end of the 

 broad white bract is the bud-scale of the past winter. 

 Search as you may, you can never find one without 

 the dark scar. This is the insignia of service, the sign 

 of work well done. 



The original form of the Red-fiowering Dogwood 

 so frequentl}^ seen in parks and gardens came from 

 Virijinia ; but the trees whose flower bracts vary from 

 pure wdiite are not rare. The bracts are not pretty or 

 showy until fully developed, then they assume the 

 pink of the wild rose. 



ROUND-LEAVED DOGWOOD 



Comics circinata. 



A compact shrub six to ten feet high, in shady, often rocky, 

 places^ in rich or sandy soil. Ranges from Nova Scotia to Man- 

 itoba, south to Virginia, west to Iowa and Missouri. 



Stem. — Twigs and branches green, warty-dotted. 



Leaves. — Opposite, entire, two to six inches long, orbicular, 

 or broadly ovate, sometimes broader than long, rounded or 

 truncate at base, entire, acute or acuminate at apex. They come 

 out of the bud slightly involute, pale green tipped with red, 

 densely covered with white hairs; when full grown are bright 

 pale green, slightly pubescent above, densely hairy beneath. In 

 autumn they turn a dull yellow. Petioles one-half to three- 

 fourths of an inch long. 



Floivers. — May, June. Perfect, small, white, borne in rather 

 dense flat cymes, one and a half to three inches across ; pedicels 

 downy. 



Calyx. — Tube bell-like, four-toothed, coherent with the ovary. 



Corolla. — Petals four, white, ovate, valvate in bud, inserted 

 on a disk within the calyx. 



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