DOGWOOD FAMILY 



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



Corolla.— Petals four, white, ovate-oblong, valvate in bud, in- 

 serted on disk. 



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

 the petals. 



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

 itate. 



Fruit. — Drupe, globose, white or whitish, about one-fourth of 

 an inch in diameter ; stone variable in shape. 



The Red-osier is a very common northern shrub 

 found growing in company with Ahms incana along the 

 watercourses. It spreads by means of underground 

 shoots so that a single plant quickly makes of itself a 

 thicket. In leaf, flower and fruit it resembles the Red- 

 stemmed Dogwood of cultivation. Were it not sur- 

 passed by this Siberian species it would be cultivated 

 for the beauty of its glowing red-purple stems and 

 branches, which in winter look very warm, bright and 

 cheerful against the snow. The fruit is white. 



PANICLED DOGWOOD 



Comus candidlssima. Cornus paniculata. 



Tall, spreading, often ten or twelve feet high, found along the 

 borders of streams and on the margins of lowland woods and 

 thickets. Ranges from Maine to North Carolina, west to Minne- 

 sota and Nebraska. 



Stems. — Twigs, stems and branches smooth, gray. 



Leaves. — Opposite, simple, two and a half to four inches long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, wedge-shaped or obtuse at base, entire, acumi- 

 nate at apex. They come out of the bud slightly involute, pale 

 green tinged with red, slightly downy ; when full grown are 

 finely downy above and below ; pale and sometimes glaucous 

 below. Petioles slender. 



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