CORNACE.E.
Cornus florida. Flowering Dogwood. Eastern United States. 'Phis is usually a small tree, but sometimes acquires a height of forty or fifty feet, and a diameter of trunk of one and one-half feet. It flowers in spring before the full development of the leaves, and then presents a beautiful appearance. It deserves to be more generally cultivated.
C. Nuttallii. White Dogwood. California and Oregon. This species, which is confined to the Pacific coast, has rather larger flowers than the preceding, and is perhaps more showy. The wood of both is bard and valuable. Grows sometimes fifty or sixty feet high.
C.Pubescens. Western Dogwood. California and Oregon. This rarely becomes a small tree, twenty-five to thirty feet high, on the Pacific coast. We have five or six other species of dogwood which do not attain tree size.
Gar, ye Fremont& Tassel-tree. Oregon and Cali. fornia. The Garryas are mostly shrubs, though nnder favorable circumstances the Garrya elliptica gains a height of twenty to thirty feet.
G. aliptica. Satin Tassel-tree. California.
Nyasa multi./fora. Black or Sour Gum; pepperidge. Eastern United States. A middle-sized tree, growing from Massachusetts to Illinois and Southward. The fibers of
the wood are so interwoven that it is almost impossible to split it; hence it is used for wheel hubs, rollers, and cylinders. (Bryant.) It ie quite ornamental in cultiva tion.
N. aquatica. Water Tupelo. Southern States. This species grows in low, wet ground, chiefly in the Southern States, hut is found also in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The wood is very tough, and has been used in the maim l'actnre of wooden bowls, etc.
N. untflora. Large Tupelo. Virginia and southward. This is the largest tree of the geniis. It is confined to the Southern States, growing in swamps. It bears a dark blue plum-like fruit nearly an inch long. The wood is soft and extremely light. The roots are also extremely light and colt, and have been used as a substitute for cork. The wood is only used to make bowls and trays.
N. capitata. Ogeecbee Lime. Southern United States. This species is found in swamps in Georgia and Florida and westward near the coast. It hears an oblong red plum-like fruit, which is agre.-ehly acid, and can be employed as a substitute for the lemon. The tree Is small and the wood without value.