DOGWOOD FAMILY 
( Cornacece) 
(A) Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) is a tall 
shrub or tree, ranging in height from 7 to 40 feet. The 
large handsome flowers, 2 to 4 inches across, are in full 
bloom before or just as the leaves commence to appear. 
The four, large, notched segments are not petals, but 
form the involucre and the real flowers are clustered at 
the center; they have four tiny greenish-white petals 
and numerous little stamens. This Dogwood is common 
in dry woods from Me. to Minn, and south to the Gulf. 
(B) Bunchberry; Dwarf Cornel (Cornus cana¬ 
densis) is really a dwarf as compared to the preceding, 
for it grows only from 4 to 8 inches high. 
The stem is leafless except at the top, at which point, 
four to six leaves radiate. 
What appears like a singled large blossom seated al¬ 
most within the whorl of leaves, is in reality a cluster 
of tiny, green-petalled, 4-parted flowers surrounded by 
four large greenish-white bracts. It ranges from Labra¬ 
dor to Alaska south to N. J., Ind. and Minn. 
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