Handbook of Teees of the ]^oetiieen States and Canada. 361 



Tlie Rougli-leavcd Dogwood is a small tree 

 only in a limited portion of its great range, 

 which extends frnm the Atlantic coast nearly 

 to the limits of tree growth on the w.estern 

 plains and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Usually a shrub it becomes a tree on the rich 

 bottom-lands of soutliern Arkansas, eastern 

 Texas and northern l.ouisiana. Here, in com- 

 pany with the Pecan and Nutmeg Hickory, 

 Prickly Ash. Rusty Nannybcrry, Mississippi 

 Hackberry, Soapberry. Drumnion and Red 

 Maples, the Water Oak, etc., it attains the 

 height of 40 or 50 ft. with irregular open top 

 and trunk sometimes S or 10 in. in diameter. 

 It is an especiiillv beautiful object in early 

 summer when bearing its many clusters of 

 creamy white nnwers and in autumn with its 

 red-stemmed bunches of wliite berries. 



The wood is heavy, liard. strong and of fine 

 grain, adapted to use in turnery. 



Leaves mostly ovate to elli|i(ic aud oval, acute, 

 clitnse or almost ronnaerl at base, long-acuminato, 

 with undulate nearly entire margins, tomontose at 

 flrst, hut at maturity dark Kn.'en and rou^h with 

 short stiff hairs ahn\-r, paho- and piihesconl nr 

 glaucous beneath : petioh^s slender, rougii tnitn's- 

 cpnt, as is all new growth. Floinis Hate spriii-i 

 creamy white, in rather l(ti"»sc-tl(>wenHl ten 

 compound long-pedunclcd <'yrncs ; jicinls na 

 oijlong, acute finally rcih'Xi'd. I'l-iiil snli^ 

 about Vi in. in diami'O-r. while. Ii|iped with tin- 

 remnants o( (ho sivir and in Iimisc s|)readlnL: 

 clusters : flesh (bin and billrr and stone 1-2- 

 seeded slightly several-grtioved lengthwise. 



