. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. Asch. & Graebn. Fl. Nord. Flachl. hard, brown ; weight per cubic foot 50 lbs. Leaves over winter, .\rrow-wood. Box-wood. Cornelian tree. Florida dogwood. White cornel. Indian arrow-wood. 3. CHAMAEPERICLYMENUM Graebn. 225, 539. 1898. [CoRNELLA Rydb. Bull. Torr Club 33: 147. 1906.] Low, almost herbaceous plants, woody only at the base, with nearly horizontal rootsto
. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. Asch. & Graebn. Fl. Nord. Flachl. hard, brown ; weight per cubic foot 50 lbs. Leaves over winter, .\rrow-wood. Box-wood. Cornelian tree. Florida dogwood. White cornel. Indian arrow-wood. 3. CHAMAEPERICLYMENUM Graebn. 225, 539. 1898. [CoRNELLA Rydb. Bull. Torr Club 33: 147. 1906.] Low, almost herbaceous plants, woody only at the base, with nearly horizontal rootstocks, and erect stems bearing a solitary head of small greenish-purple or violet flowers subtended by an involucre of 4 large white bracts, the leaves opposite or whorled. Calyx-limb minutely 4-toothed, the teeth with a deciduous spinule on the back near the apex. Petals 4, valvate. Stamens 4. Ovary 2-celled. Drupe globose, red. [Greek, low Peridymenum.] Two species, of the northern hemisphere. Type species: Chamaepericlymennm svecicum (L.) Asch. & Graebn. I. Chamaepericl5mienum canadense (L.) Asch. & Graebn. Low or Dwarf Cornel. Bunch-berry or -plum. Fig. 3190. Coruus canadensis L. Sp. PI. 117. I753- C. unalaschensis Ledeb. FI. Ross. 2: 378. 1844-46. C. canadensis Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 33 : 147. 1906. Herbaceous, woody only at the base; flowering stems erect, scaly. 3-9' high. Rootstock nearly horizontal; leaves verticillate at the summit of the stem, or sometimes i or 2 pairs of opposite ones below, sessile, oval, ovate, or obovate, pin- nately veined, glabrous or minutely appressed- pubescent, acute at each end. entire. 1-3' long; peduncle slender, i'-iV long; involucral bracts 4-6. white, petaloid, ovate, 4"-9'' long; flowers greenish, capitate; petals ovate, one of them' with a subulate appendage; fruit globose, bright red, about 3" in diameter; stone smooth, globose, slightly longer than Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pa
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