. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. Cornus Amomum Mill. Silky Cornel. Kinnikinnik. Fig. 3181. C. Amomum Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 5. 1768. Corntis sericea L. Mant. 2: 199. 1771. Raf. Ann. Nat. 13, 1820. C. Purpusi Koehne, Gartentlora 1899 : 388. A shrub, 3°-io° high, with purplish twigs, the youngest commonly pubescent. Leaves petioled, ovate, oval, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate


. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. Cornus Amomum Mill. Silky Cornel. Kinnikinnik. Fig. 3181. C. Amomum Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 5. 1768. Corntis sericea L. Mant. 2: 199. 1771. Raf. Ann. Nat. 13, 1820. C. Purpusi Koehne, Gartentlora 1899 : 388. A shrub, 3°-io° high, with purplish twigs, the youngest commonly pubescent. Leaves petioled, ovate, oval, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, usually finely pubescent with brownish hairs beneath, glabrous or minutely appressed-pubescent above, I'-s' long; flowers white, in rather compact flat cymes 1V-2V broad; petals narrowly oblong; fruit globose, light blue, 3"-3i" in diameter, stone oblique, ridged, narrowed or pointed at base. In low woods and along streams, Newfoundland to Ontario, Florida, North Dakota, Nebraska and Texas. Swamp dogwood. Blueberry-cornell. Red- osier ; red-brush or -willow. Rose-willow. Squaw- bush. May-July. 3. Cornus Priceae Small. Miss Price's Cornel. Fig. 3182. Cornus Priceae Small, Torreya i : 54. 1901. Svida Priceae Small', Fl. SE. U. S. 854. 1903. A branching shrub, 3°-6° high, the twigs red, finely pubescent. Leaves numerous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic or ovate, usually acuminate at the apex, deep green and roughish pubescent above, pale and more copiously, but more softly pubescent, and prominently nerved beneath, 2'-/sJk' long; petioles J'-i' long, pubescent like the twigs; cymes closely flowered, 4-6 cm. broad at maturity; petals white, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; fruit about i4" in diameter, subglobose, white; stone about l" long, slightly longer than broad, faintly ribbed. On river banks, southern Kentucky and northern Ten- nessee. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page


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