DOGWOOD FAMILY 



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

 flowered somewhat paniculate cymes, one and a half to two 

 inches across. 



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

 ovary. 



Corolla. — Petals four, white, lanceolate, inserted on the disk, 

 valvate in bud. 



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

 the petals. 



Pistil. — Ovary inferior, two-celled. 



Fruit. — Drupe, globose or slightly depressed, white, about 

 one-fourth of an inch in diameter, stone sub-globose. 



BAILEY'S DOGWOOD 

 Comus baileyi. 



This Dosrwood is a native of the sand dunes of the 

 Great Lakes, also found in moist ground from Penn- 

 sylvania to Minnesota and westward. 



The species was long considered a form of Comus 

 stolonifera from which it can be distinguished " by the 

 lack of stolons, by the much duller and brown bark, 

 and the white fruit with a large flattened stone, and 

 also by the white wooliness of the lower leaf surfaces. 

 It appears on the sand dunes about the Great Lakes, 

 often in the loosest, shifting, white sands." Flowers 

 appear more or less abundantly all summer. 



ALTERNATE-LEAVED DOGWOOD 

 Comus alter nifblia. 



The Alternate-leaved Dogwood is sometimes a tree 

 and frequently a shrub. Unlike the other dogwoods 

 its leaves are alternate and they often appear in a sort 

 of tufted group. The stem and twigs are green and 



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