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THE DOGWOOD OR CORNEL. 



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FLOWER BUDS. 



THE FLOWER AND THE BERRY. 



Early in June the flowers appear. The pale green pedicle that 

 bears them springs from the apex of the new shoot, between the 

 . bases of the uppermost pair of leaf stalks. The 



main pedicle bears a cluster of smaller ones at the 

 tip, and these again arc subdivided into still shorter 

 tertiary pedicles, each one bearing a small green 

 (jval bud nearly hidden in down. At the junctions ot leaf stalk and 

 flower stalk a pair of new shoots bearing small leaves are found. 

 The florets are not crowded together, as in the Rowan or Whitebeam, 

 and their beauty of form is more readily seen. Four white [ictals, 



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