102 THE TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



ered, to get a name. It is found in low woods in the 

 Middle and Upper Districts, has purplish branches, 

 is from 6 to 10 feet high, and having rather broad, 

 pointed leaves, which are smooth above and with a 

 silky down beneath. The flowers are white, in flat- 

 topped clusters, succeeded by pale-blue berries. 



3. (C. stricta, Linn.) — This is 6 to 15 feet high, 

 with brownish or reddish branches, found only in the 

 wet lands of the Lower District. The leaves are 

 about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide, tapering to a 

 point at the upper end, the edges slightly uneven, 

 smooth on both sides, paler and with prominent 

 veins on the underside. The flowers and pale-blue 

 berries are much as in No. 2. 



4. (C. paniculata, L'Her.) — A branching shrub, 4 

 to 8 feet high, with gray branches, found in this 

 State only in our mountain counties. The leaves 

 are only 2 to 3 inches long, with a tapering point, 

 smooth, whitish on the underside. The white flow- 

 ers are in longer and looser clusters than in the two 

 preceding, and the berries white. 



5. (C. alternifolia, L'Her.) — I have met with this 

 only on the higher mountains. It is the only one of 

 this genus of Cornels — this being the common name 

 of the shrubby Dogwoods — which has the leaves 

 alternating on the branches, instead of being oppo- 

 site to each other in pairs. It is 10 to 15 and 20 feet 

 high, the branches also alternate, greenish, streaked 

 with white. The leaves are about 3 inches long, 

 hoary and slightly hany beneath, and pointed at the 



