86 Trees of Noeth Carolina 



in cultivation unless its natural habitat is closely 

 duplicated. 



GINSENG FAMILY 



(ARALIACEAE) 



140. Aralia spinosa L. Hercules Club, Angelica Tree, 



Prickly Ash. 



A small prickly tree or shrub with few or no 

 branches, but with very large, twice or thrice com- 

 pound leaves, 2-4 feet long, near the top. The leaflets 

 are broadly ovate and toothed; flowers small but 

 very numerous, forming large panicles in the top 

 of the tree ; fruit a very small, juicy, black berry. In 

 this state said to occur in rich woods or along streams 

 from the coast to Cherokee (Curtis), but evidently 

 local in distribution, and entirely absent over large 

 areas; rather abundant in some localities, as along 

 Swift Creek in Wake County. 



DOGWOOD FAMILY 

 (CORNACEAE) 



141. Cornus florida L. Flowering Dogwood. 



A low tree, very conspicuous in flower, that is 

 scattered plentifully through all our woods. The 

 floral display is due to the large white, or sometimes 

 decidedly pinkish bracts that surround each group of 

 small yellow flowers. Swollen places containing in- 

 sect larvae are very common along the twigs. Leaves 

 ovate, opposite; fruits red. The Dogwood is highly 

 decorative in cultivation and should be much more 



