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4. C. serie'ea, L. (Silky Cornel.) A large shrub 

 with purplish branches. Leaves opposite, narrowly ovate 

 or oblong, silky beneath. Branohlets often rusty. Fruit 

 light blue. Distinguished from No. 3 by the colour of the 

 branches and the much smaller leaves. — Low wet grounds. 



5. C. stolonifepa, Miohx. (Red-osier Dogwood.) A 

 shrub forming clumps by the production of suckers or stolons, 

 3-6 feet high. Branches bright red-purple, smooth. Leaves 

 opposite, ovate, roughish, whitish beneath. Fruit white or 

 whitish. — Low wet grounds. 



6. C. panieula'ta, L'Her. (Pakiclbd Cornel.) A shrub 

 4-8 feet high, with erect, gray, and smooth branches. 

 Flowers white, very numerous. Leaves opposite, ovate- 

 lanceolate, taper-pointed. Cymes convex. Fruit white. — 

 Thickets and river-banks. 



7. C. asperifo'Jia, Michx., (Rough-leaved Dogwood) 

 is reported by Macoun as common on Point Pelee. Branches 

 brownish, the branchlets rough-pubescent. Leaves oppo. 

 site, rather small, oblong or ovate ; rough above, downy 

 beneath. Fruit bluish or white. 



8. C. alternifo'lia, L. (Alternatb-leaved]Coenel.) A 

 large shrub or small tree, with alternate greenish branches 

 streciked with white. Lea/ves mostly alternate, oval, acute at 

 each end, crowded at the ends of the branches. Flowers 

 yellowisljp in loose cymes. Fruit deep blue, on reddish 

 stalks, — Thickets. 



9. JiVSSA, L. Peppebidoe. Soub-Gum Tree. 

 N. sylvat'iea. Marsh. A middle-sized tree with hori- 

 zontal branches, reported from Niagara and south-western 

 Ontario. Sterile flowers in dense axillary clusters, with small 

 calyx, and small fleshy petals or none. Stamens mostly 10, but 

 sometimes fewer. Fertile flowers in clusters of 3-8, at the 

 summit of a slender axillary peduncle, larger than the stam- 

 inate ones. Style revolute. Ovary 1-celled. Drupe ovoid, 

 bluish-black, about half an inch Jtong. 



