. 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. Genus 3. DOGWOOD FAMILY. 665 In low woods, Newfoundland to Al\ska, New Jersey, West Virginia, Indiana, Minnesota, Colorado and California; also in eastern Asia. Rarely the upper leaves are opposite. May-July. Cracker-berry. 2. Chamaepericlymenum suecicum (L.) Asch. & Graebn. Northern Dwarf Cornel. Lapland Cornel. Fig. 3191. Cornns suecica'L. Sp. PI. 118. 17
. 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. Genus 3. DOGWOOD FAMILY. 665 In low woods, Newfoundland to Al\ska, New Jersey, West Virginia, Indiana, Minnesota, Colorado and California; also in eastern Asia. Rarely the upper leaves are opposite. May-July. Cracker-berry. 2. Chamaepericlymenum suecicum (L.) Asch. & Graebn. Northern Dwarf Cornel. Lapland Cornel. Fig. 3191. Cornns suecica'L. Sp. PI. 118. 1753. Cornelia succica Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 33: 147. 1908. Chamaepericlymenum suecicum Asch. & Graebn. Fl. Nord. Flachl. 539. 1898. Flowering stems 2-10' high, sometimes branched above. Rootstock horizontal. Leaves .3-6 pairs, all opposite, sessile, ovate, or oval, acute or obtusish at the apex, mostly roimded at the base, entire, minutely appressed-pubescent above, the upper i'-ii' long, the lower smaller, the veins all arising from near the base; involucral bracts usually 4, ovate, 3"-6" long, obtusish; flowers dark violet, capitate; fruit globose, red, 3"-4" in diameter; stone flattened, slightly channeled on each side, about as broad as long. In cold), wet Avoods and wet cliffs, Newfoundland, Labrador and Quebec through Arctic America to Alaska. Also in Greenland, northern Europe and Asia. 4. NYSSA L. Sp. PI. 1058. 1753. Trees or shrubs, with alternate petioled entire or dentate leaves. Flowers small, green- ish, polygamo-dioecious, in capitate clusters, short racemes, or the fertile ones sometimes solitary, borne at the summit of slender axillary peduncles, appearing with the leaves. Staminate flowers numerous, the calyx small, S-parted, the petals minute and fleshy, or none; stamens S-15; filaments slender; disk entire or lobed; pistil none or rudimentary. Pistillate flowers 2-14, or solitary, bracted; calyx-limb 5-toothed, or truncate;
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