. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. EARLY-FLOWERING SHRUBS. 31. ruddy stems, which by the middle of winter are hlood-red, and furnish a remarkable bit of color on the borders of the snow- covered meadow. The flower clusters, which are small and flat, appear in June ; they are followed in August by whit- ish or leaden-gray fruit. This species is com- mon in wet places throughout the IS^orth. C. asperifolia is Comus sericea. also but three or four feet high, and bears flowers in a similar small, flat cluster, succeeded by a whitish fruit
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. EARLY-FLOWERING SHRUBS. 31. ruddy stems, which by the middle of winter are hlood-red, and furnish a remarkable bit of color on the borders of the snow- covered meadow. The flower clusters, which are small and flat, appear in June ; they are followed in August by whit- ish or leaden-gray fruit. This species is com- mon in wet places throughout the IS^orth. C. asperifolia is Comus sericea. also but three or four feet high, and bears flowers in a similar small, flat cluster, succeeded by a whitish fruit. The branches of this species are brown and rough downy; the leaves are also downy. C. asperifolia is a distinctive- ly Western species extending from the northern shore of Lake Erie to Minnesota ; it also grows in the â South. C. paniculata is a much-branched shrub from four to eight feet high, which bears flowers in numerous loose, almost cone-shaped clusters in May or June. The fruit is white, borne on a pale-red stem; it ap- pears in late August. This species is very common. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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