STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
hamlets of Harwood and Gore’s Landing. The bush is not 
more than four or five feet high, with light branching 
sprays. The pretty white flowers are borne in convex cymes, 
or sometimes in panicles, and are followed by snow-white 
berries. The foliage is dark-green, often with a purplish- 
bronze tint; the leaves are long and narrow, the nerves 
whitish, and the light veining distinctly marked; the sur- 
face of the leaf is very smooth, but hardly shining. This 
pretty shrub would be well worthy of being introduced into 
our shrubberies. 
There are many other species of Dogwood which are com- 
mon to our swamps and thickets, some reaching to the 
height of small trees, as the Flowering Dogwood, C. florida, 
which is held in great esteem in the United States for 
certain medicinal qualities; it has been used as a substitute 
for Peruvian bark in low fevers. The Indians are said to 
extract a red dye from the roots. The fruit of the Flowering 
Dogwood is scarlet; the flowers, with their showy creamy- 
white involucres, three inches across, are very handsome, 
and are produced abundantly in the month of June. This 
very handsome shrub grows in Western Canada, where it 
sometimes becomes a tree and reaches to the height of twenty 
or thirty feet. A great contrast is this stately species to the 
dwarf herbaceous creeping plant of our woods, Cornus 
Canadensis. 
RED Oster Dogwoop—Cornus stolonifera (Michx.). 
There are few of the native species of Cornel that are 
more ornamental than the Red Osier Dogwood, the bright 
crimson wand-like branches of which, even when stripped of 
their foliage, are an enduring ornament. Their rosy foliage, 
mirrored on the surface of the smooth waters of lake or 
forest stream, enlivens the landscape and delights the eye 
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