£10 TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 
twice or sometimes thrice odd-pinnate, 
usually prickly, with stalked, ovate, 
. acuminate, deeply serrate leaflets, glau- 
cous beneath. Large panicles of small 
whitish flowers in umbels, with invo- 
lueres of few leaves. Berry small, 14 
in., 5-ribbed, crowned with the remains 
of the calyx. A tree-like plant, 8 to 20 
ft. nigh, or in the Gulf States 40 ft. 
high; with the stem covered with nu- 
merous prickles. Usually dies to the 
ground after flowering. Wild in damp 
woods, Pennsylvania and south, and 
A. Chinénsis. cultivated in the North. 
2. Aralia Chinénsis. Leaves more or 
less fully twice-pinnate ; leaflets ovate- 
oblong, oblique at base, acuminate, 
sharply serrate, hairy. Flowers and 
fruit in large, branching, hairy panicles ; 
thorns few, straight. A small tree, 10 to 
15 ft. high; occasionally cultivated; from 
China. 
3. Aralia (Acanthépanax) Maxi- 
mowiczii. Leaves long-petioled, simple, 
thick, palmately cleft, with 7 serrate 
lobes; old leaves smooth, the young with 
woolly bases. Panicles of flowers and 
fruit terminal; the berries striated. Tree- 
trunk usually quite prickly. This species is said to grow 50 ft. high 
in Japan. It has been recently introduced, and proves perfectly 
hardy in Massachusetts. 
A, Maximowiczii. 
OrpER XXII. CORNACEZ. (Doewoop Famiy.) 
A small order of shrubs and trees (rarely herbs) of tem- 
perate regions. 
Genus 45. CORNUS. 
Small trees or shrubs (one species an herb) with sim. 
ple, entire. curved-veined, and (except in one species) op- 
