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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



simple, heart-shaped at base with 5 to 7 notched lohes. The species from 

 Formosa, Formosa Rice-paper Akalia (337) — Fatsia papyrifera, — has 

 the white flowers sessile in globular clusters, while the one from Japan, 

 Japan Rice-paper Aralia — Fatsia jap6nica, — has more shining foliage 

 and the flowers in umbels. There are variegated forms of both species. 



[Root cuttings.] 



C6mus. The Dogwoods form an interesting group of shrubs and 

 small trees (a few are herbaceous) with peculiarly veined entire-edged 

 leaves. The side-veins are distinctly parallel with each other and in- 



FiG. 343. — White-fruited Dogwood. 



Fig. 344. — Panlcled Dogwood. 



curving towards the acute tip of the leaf. There are but few other plants 

 with leaves so veined ; some of the Buckthorns (p. 93 ) come nearest 

 among our shrubs. All our species of Cornus except one, Alternate- 

 leaved Dogwood (338) — Cornus alternifolia, — have opposite leaves. 

 A few species in cultivation have what is apparently large white or pink 

 flowers of great beauty. The colored part, in these cases, is really four 

 large bracts surrounding the clusters of small flowers in a head-like 

 growth. The finest and commonest of these is our Flowering Dog- 

 wood (339) — Cornus fl6rida, — a' shrub or small tree (10-15 feet, rarely 

 to 40 feet) with spreading branches, white or pink flowers in May and 



