
160 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
the smallest member of the family, it has wrapped about itself 
a white petal-like involucre that is only indulged in by a few 
other dogwoods, as is the case with the largest and most import- 
ant of them all, the C. florida, It has probably found out that 
size is not such an essential matter. ‘“ Bigness,” Bishop Potter 
Says, ‘“‘ is not greatness,” 
After the bloom has passed, the flower-stalk stretches upward 
and bears a bunch of attractive red berries. They are quite 
edible. In the rich woods of New Jersey the plant grows pro- 
lifically. 
FLOWERING DOGWOOD. (Plate LXXX7,) 
Cornus floréda. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Dogwood. White and green. Scentless. Rather general. May, June. 
Flowers: tiny ; perfect ; green ; growing in a cluster and surrounded bya 
showy involucre of four obcordate petal-like bracts, notched at the apex. 
Leaves: elliptical; netted-veined; simple; glabrous. A shrub or tree 
twelve to twenty feet high ; woody; branching ; leafy. 
Almost too well known to need any description is this shrub 
or tree. Like the little bunch-berry it is provided with a beau- 
tiful white involucre and it can be seen at a great distance. 
Hardly any one of our shrubs contributes more to the beauty 
of the spring woods. 
The pity is that when at the height of its bloom it is so often 
stripped of its flowers, and great branches of it are broken off by 
ruthless hands that seem to be quite ignorant of the harm they 
are doing. 
Its home is in the rocky woods, and according to the tradi- 
tion of the people, it blooms just at the proper time for planting 
Indian corn. ; 
ROUND-LEAVED DOGWOOD. 
Cérnus circinata. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Dogwood. White. Scentless. New England June. 
southward and westward. 
Flowers: small, in a flat open cluster having no involucre. Calyx: of four 
minutely toothed sepals. Corol/a: of four petals. Stamens: four. istd: 

