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ciated with the white elm and black willow. In our area it rarely 
attains tree size and is of no economic importance. 
The published records of the distribution are as follows: Clark 
(Baird and Taylor); Delaware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne (Phinney); 
Fayette (Hessler); Franklin (Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Hamil- 
ton (Wilson); Jefferson (Barnes) and (Coulter); Kosciusko (Clark); 
Marion (Douglas); Monroe (Blatchley); Posey (Schneck); Steuben 
(Bradner); St. Joseph (Rothert); Tippecanoe (Cunningham); Vigo 
(Blatchley). 
Additional records are: Montgomery (Evans); Putnam (Grimes), 
(MacDougal) and (Wilson); Fulton, Hamilton, Johnson, Laporte, 
Monroe, Montgomery, Porter, Washington and Wells (Deam). 
3. CYNOXYLON. Tuer Docwoons. 
(From the Greek, cynos, dog and zylon, wood). 
Cynoxylon fléridum (Linnzeus) Rafinesque. Doawoop. FLoweEr- 
ING Doawoop. (Cornus florida Linneus). Plate 120. Bark of 
old trees reddish-brown, usually deeply fissured and divided into 
short oblong scales; twigs slender, round, turning up at the ends; 
terminal winter buds oblong, covered with two opposite scales, 
flowering buds sub-globose, grayish, covered with 4 scales which 
later develop into the flowering bracts; leaves ovate to elliptic, 
5-14 em. (2-514 inches) long and 3-7 em. (114-224 inches) wide, 
taper-pointed at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, margin 
entire or with a few shallow indentations, more or less hairy both 
above and below, bright green above, lighter or whitish beneath, 
turning scarlet in autumn; flowering heads surrounded by an in- 
volucre of 4 large white or pinkish bracts, the mature bracts ob- 
ovate, 3-6 em. (114-21 inches) long, notched and thicker at the 
apex, the apex is a grayish brown, being the part that encloses the 
flower buds; flowers small, greenish, appearing in April or May; 
fruit ripens in September and October, scarlet red, the ovoid drupe 
about 1 em. (3% inch) long with a thin acrid pulp and a large 
elliptic stone; stone pointed at both ends. 
Distribution. Southern Maine, Ontario and southern Minnesota 
south to Florida and west to Texas. In Indiana it is frequent in 
all parts of the State that are favorable to its growth. It prefers 
a moist rich soil and is usually associated with beech, sugar maple 
and white oak. It is a small tree with a short trunk, usually about 
7 m. (23 feet) high with a diameter of about 13 cm. (5 inches). 
The published records of the distribution are as follows: Clark 
(Baird and Taylor) and (Smith); Daviess (Clements); Dearborn 
