364 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SIVAAIP 



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M. nMa bears fewer flowers on leafless stems a few inches 

 high and slender. Leaves from the root, doubly crenate, 

 roundish or kidney-shaped. Grows in moss in New England 

 and the Northern States. 



25. Bunch-berry. Dwarf Cornel 



Cornus Canadensis. — Family, Dogwood. Color, green and 

 white. Leaves nearly sessile, 4 or 6 in a whorl, lying close 

 under the flower, ovate, pointed, with curved, parallel veins. 

 Below on the stem are a few smaller, scale-like leaves. Time, 

 June. 



The flowers are clustered in the centre, small, greenish, with 

 black dots among them. Calyx minutely 4-toothed. Corolla 

 of 4 oblong spreading petals. Stamens 4, with white anthers. 

 Pistil, I. Directly under the head of flowers are 4 large, 

 pointed, white, petal-like leaves, an involucre, which appear to 

 be the flower itself. Later the flower- stalk lengthens and 

 bears a bunch of bright-red berries, very striking and pretty. 



This small imitation of the larger flowering dogwood blossom 

 (C.florMa) is only 5 to 7 inches high. It is not uncommon in deep 

 woods in New Jersey and New York, westward to Minnesota, and 

 whether in blossom or fruit is always a pretty herb to find and 

 study. 



26. Feverwort. Horse-gentian. Wild Coffee. 

 Tinker's-weed 



Tridsteum perfoliatum. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, 

 brownish purple. Fruit, orange. Leaves, opposite, downy 

 beneath, entire, broad, tapering at base, 2 clasping the stem 

 and uniting, hence the specific name. Time, June. 



Calyx lobes long and narrow, 5. Corolla, a tube with 5 

 unequal lobes. Stamens, 5. Coarse, softly hairy herbs, leafy 



