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3. Blount, St. Clair and Calhoun Counties. 



4. Clay and Coosa Counties. 



5. Chilton, Elmore and Chambers Counties. 



6A. Lamar, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Bibb, Chilton and Elmore Counties. 



6B. Autauga County. 



6C. Autauga and Montgomery Counties. 



7. Dallas County. 



8. Dallas, Montgomery, Crenshaw and Pike Counties. 



lOE. Crenshaw, Pike, Dale, Coffee and Covington Counties. 



low. Common practically throughout. 



n. Choctaw, Washington, Clarke and Conecuh Counties. 



12. Covington and Geneva Counties. 



13. Mobile. Baldwin (near Hurricane) and Covington Counties. 



13 or 15. Hammocks on west side of Mobile Bay, a few miles below 

 Mobile, and bluff between Montrose and Volanta, Baldwin County. 



CORNACEAE. Cornel or Dogwood Family. 



About a dozen genera and 90 species, mostly trees and shrubs, 

 and mostly in the north temperate zone. Some are useful for 

 their wood, and several are cultivated for ornament. 



CORNUS, L. The Dogwoods, etc. 



Decidtious shrubs or small trees, with small clustered white 

 flowers, followed by red, blue or white berries. The arborescent 

 species, with flower-heads surrounded by large white petal-like 

 bracts (including the first one listed below, one near the Pacific 

 coast, and one in Japan), are sometimes put into a separate genus, 

 Cynoxylon (from the Greek words for dog and wood). 



Cornus florida, L. (Common, or Flowering) Dogwood. 



(Fig. 63) 



A well-known small tree, with trunk usually leaning or 

 crooked, and not more than a foot in diameter and 25 feet tall. 

 The flowers appear with or a little before the leaves in March and 

 April (in February in central Florida), and the red berries remain 

 on the tree most of the winter. 



Often cultivated for ornament, with two hortictiltural va- 

 rieties, one with drooping branches and one with pink bracts. The 

 bark, especially of the root, is bitter and tonic, and decoctions of 

 it have been used in the treatment of intermittent fevers, but it is 

 no longer officinal. The wood is very hard when seasoned, and 

 takes a fine polish. It is one of the two woods most preferred in 

 this country for shuttles, and it is used more for that than for any 

 other purpose. (See Cuno in bibliography; also Kellogg.) 



