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Title: An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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loaveswithout teeth at the margins and with tapering pointed tips. Flowersgreonish-yellow in a crowded head which is surrounded by the 4 largeand conspicuous v;hite bracts of the involucre. In woods, generally dis-tributed- April-Juno. 3. C. alternifolia, L- (Fig. fi, pi. 112.) Alternate-leaved Dog-wood. Small tree or shrub, with alternate loaves which are oval withnarrow pointed tips on slender leaf-stalks; the young twigs bright red-dish-i)tirplo. Branches warty. Flowers white or cream color in umbel-like clusters. Fruit globular, blue when ripe. Woods, common. May-Jiily- 4- C. circinata, T/TTor. (Fig. H, pi. 112.) Round-leaved Dogwood.81irub, with oj)posite leaves whicli are broadly oval, nearljj round, the tipnarrowed to a point, silky white beneath slighlly downy above, 2 to 6in. long- Branches warty. Flowers white in dense uml)el-like clusters.Fruit globular, light blue. Shady places, common. May-June. 5. C. Amonum, Mill. (Fig. 7, pi. 112.) Silky Dogwood. (C. DOGWOOD FAMILY 453
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1. Cornus asperifolia. 2. C. florC. paniculata. ii. C. alternifolia. 7. C. Amonuui. Plate 112 ida. 3. C. circinata. 4. C. canadensis. 5. 454 CORNACEAE scricea, L.) Branches purple, tlie smaller woolly. Leaves elliptic or egg-shaped, densely silky witl; brownish hairs beneath. Flowers yellowish-white, the umbellate clusters rather compact. Fruit dark blue. Woods,and along streams. May-July. 6. C. asperifolia, ivrichx. (Fig. 1, pi. 112.) Rougii-leaved Dog-wood. General appearance of the shrub similar to last. Leaves rough,hairy above, downy beneath. Fruit globular, white. Wet places. May-June. 7. C. stolonifera, INIichx. Red Osier. Shrub, often sending out run-ners, wiiich take root. Branches slender, the younger bright reddish-purple- Leaves egg-shaped on slender leaf-stalks, with few soft hairsabove, whitish silky beneath. Berries bluish-white. Moist places. May-June. 8. C. paniculata, LHer. (Fig. 5, pi. 112.) Panicled Dogwood.(C candidissima, Marsh.) Branches gray, smooth. Leaves lan

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