. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. light blueor white. The fruit develops sparingly and the BLUE 263 cymes are not very full. The stone is nearlyglobose and somewhat ridged. It is aromaticand bitter. September. Leaves. — The leaves are nearly round, some-times even broader than long. The apex is acuteand the base rounded or heart-shaped. The undersurface is densely hairy and has prominent veins. Floioers. — The white blossoms are ratherlarge and in full-blossomed cymes. The pedi-cels are somewhat hairy. This shrub is quite spreading in i
. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. light blueor white. The fruit develops sparingly and the BLUE 263 cymes are not very full. The stone is nearlyglobose and somewhat ridged. It is aromaticand bitter. September. Leaves. — The leaves are nearly round, some-times even broader than long. The apex is acuteand the base rounded or heart-shaped. The undersurface is densely hairy and has prominent veins. Floioers. — The white blossoms are ratherlarge and in full-blossomed cymes. The pedi-cels are somewhat hairy. This shrub is quite spreading in its habit, andfrom three to ten feet high. Its branches aregreen and warty. The leaves are distinctivelybroad. It grows in the shade and often amongrocks. It extends from Nova Scotia to Virginia. SILKY CORNEL. KINNIKINNIK Cornus Amonum Comus sericea DogTvood Family Fruit. — The drupes vary in ripening fromgreen to pale blue. They are globular, withthe calyx teeth persistent in a depression at thesummit. The flesh is whitish and the stonenoticeably ridged. The fruits grow in a flat. Silky Cornel (Cornus Amonum)264 BLUE 265 terminal cluster. The peduncles and pedicelsare reddish and clothed with soft down. LateAugust, September. Leaves. — The simple, opposite leaves areovate or elliptical. The tip is pointed and thebase is rounded or often uneven, one side beinglonger than the other. The stems and underleaf surfaces are downy, sometimes rusty. Floivers. — The small white flowers grow inflat compact cymes. June. This shrub is erect and somewhat green bark has a reddish tinge and in winterthe branches become purplish. The branchlets,stems, and lower leaf surfaces are finely is one of the latest of the family to blossombut fruits in company with the Panicled Cornel,the two often forming hedges along the fencerows and highways. It is very decorative infruit, and is being more and more used bylandscape gardeners. It grows quite exten-sively as far west
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