. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 742 The Cornels Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri. Its maximum height is about 9 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The trunk is usually very short; the branches are somewhat verticiUate, long, rather slender, and nearly horizontal, form- ing a broad flat-topped bushy head. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, smooth or shal- lowly fissured and dark red-brown. The twigs are slender, smooth, greenish yellow to brown.
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 742 The Cornels Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri. Its maximum height is about 9 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The trunk is usually very short; the branches are somewhat verticiUate, long, rather slender, and nearly horizontal, form- ing a broad flat-topped bushy head. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, smooth or shal- lowly fissured and dark red-brown. The twigs are slender, smooth, greenish yellow to brown. The winter buds are sharp- pointed, covered by shining brown scales. The leaves are thin, alternate, very rarely opposite, oval to ovate, to 20 cm. long, sharply slender-pointed at the apex, nar- rowed or rounded at the base, slightly toothed or entire on the margin, yellowish green and smooth or but slightly hairy above, whitish and hairy beneath, with a broad yellowish midrib; the leaf-stalk is slender, grooved, 3 to 5 cm. long. The flowers, appearing from May to Julyj are in terminal cymes 4 to 7 cm. across, on pedicels 3 to 6 mm. long; the calyx is nar- rowly cup-shaped, slightly toothed, and hairy; the petals are narrowly oblong, about 3 mm. long. The fruit is subglobose, about i cm. in diameter, bluish black; the flesh is dry and bitter, the stone obo- void, thick-walled, grooved, with i or 2 crescent-shaped seeds about 6 mm. long. The wood is hard, close-grained, red- dish brown; its specific gravity is about The striking form, beautiful foli- age, profusion of bloom, pretty red- stemmed, blue fruit, and autumnal coloration, make this a most desirable small tree in any situation. 2. STIFF CORNEL Comus striata Lambert. Fig. 679. — Blue Cornel. Usually a shrub, this is also called Stiff dogwood, and grows in swamps from Virginia to Missouri southward to Florida and Texas, sometimes becom- ing 5 meters Please note that these images are extracted from sca
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