DOGWOOD FAMILY 



Corolla. — Petals four, white, narrowly oblong, acute, valvate in 

 bud. 



Stamens. — Four, exserted, filaments threadlike ; inserted on 

 disk, with the petals. 



Pistil. — Ovary inferior, two-celled; style slender; stigma cap- 

 itate. 



Fruit. — Drupe, globose, pale blue, one-fourth to three-eighths 

 of an inch in diameter; stone oblique, ridged. Bitter, aro- 

 matic. Sei)tember. 



The Silky Dogwood is the latest of the family to 

 flower, usually coming into bloom about the twentieth 

 of June. The leaves are slender, ovate, pointed, silky 

 downy on the under side, especially when young. The 

 flower cj^mes are rather smaller than those of the other 

 dogwoods. The fruit is bright blue and usually abun- 

 dant. The plant is very common at the north along the 

 borders of swamps and in other low, wet places, where 

 it forms a wide spreading bush eight to ten feet high. 

 Its colored twigs and branchlets suffuse a purplish tint 

 over the bush in winter thus o^ivins^ it a decided orna- 

 mental value. 



ROUGH-LEAVED DOGWOOD 



Corn us asperifblia . 



Three to fifteen feet high, found in wet ground or near streams. 

 Ranges from southern Ontario to Florida and west to Iowa, Kan- 

 sas and Texas. 



Stems. — Reddish brown ; branchlets very rough, downy. 



Leaves. — Opposite, simple, one and a half to five inches long, 

 ovate-oval or elliptic, rounded at base, entire, acuminate at apex ; 

 when full grown densely rough-hairy above, pale and downy 

 beneath. Petioles slender, rough-hairy. 



Flowers. — ^May, June. Perfect, cream-white, borne in loose 

 cymes ; pedicels are rough-hairy. 



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