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NYSSACEAE 957 
(WATER-GUM. | WATER-TUPELO. | BLACK-GUM.)—Swamps and e margins,. 
Coastal Plain and ar prov inces, Fla. to Tex. and Del. (or N. A form 
with rather. small blunt leaves and roundish drupes 6—7 mm. in d from 
the -o re eg ons o South Carolina to Virginia may represent an addi- 
tional spee 
rsina Small. Shrub with copiously branched stems or a small 
much- br anched tree: leaf-blades elliptie, often narrowly so, to spatulate, 2.5-7 
em. long, coriaceous, iA Dea at -o r P drupe globular, 9—1 X 
r, y fleshy; ong.—( BEAR-GUM.) —Pineland 
mps, Apalachicola River n Fla. —A a branehed shrub with the 
habit of Cliftonia uw i with which E grow S, a by its n pu 
small leaves and in flo ' fruit, by 'ery numerous flower clusters 
fruits, respeetive B. The e juicy drupes, S oan a bitter, are a favorite 
food of the bears of the regio 
cuminata Small. Shrub becoming 3 m. tall, usually with numerous 
erect [cen leaf-blades narrowly elliptie or oblanceolate, 4—16 em. lon 
acuminate: drupe ellipsoid, about 2 em. long.—Pineland swamps near the 
coast, Ga. 
geche Marsh. Tree becoming 20 m. tall, the stem crooked; leaf- 
blades elliptic, varying to Mou ME Or lanceolate, or pann E. 5-90 em. 
long, usually entire: petioles about le . long: drupe 3-4 c 
than the pedicel; stone papery-winge p (Oa b E "OS M 
TUPELO-GUM.)—Wet swamps, Coastal Plain, Fla. to S. C.—The fruits are used 
to make an acid drink and for a preserve. The d is white, light, soft and 
tough. 
6. N. a L. Tree becomi ing 35 m. tall, be stem o leaf-blades 
ovate to mu 9-30 cm. ng, often sinuate or coarsely toothed; petioles 2.5 
em. long: drupe n 3 en pm dark-purple, Eu than the pedi cel; stone 
sharp- ridged.— ( TUPELO-GUM. COTTON-GUM.)—River- a Coastal eee c 
rarely adj. provinces, Fla. to Tex., Ill, and Va.—The w is used for 
various utensils. It is light- -brown or nearly white, soft, but tough. 
2. SVIDA Opiz. Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate. 
Flowers in naked corymb-like cymes. Sepals 4, minute. Petals 4, white, 
spreading. Stamens 4. Drupe globular or depress d. [Cornus L. in part 
About 15 species, North Ameriean.—Spr.—CORNELS.—Some species are used 
medicinally. 
Leaves alternate, approximate at the end of the branches: drupe deep-blue or 
blue-black. 1. S. alternifolia. 
Leaves opposite, remote: drupe white or pale-blue or light-blue. 
Lower leaf-surfaces glabrou 
wigs grav: drupe white: stone broader than long. 2. S. femina. 
i m reddish-brown : drupe pale-blue: stone mostly 
th 
Lower leaf surfaces with straight or curled h 
Stones longer than broad: drupe 3-4 mm in "dini eter 
Leaf. lades membranous, those below a peduncle ellip- 
tie or oval. 4 
Leaf blades Eum those below a peduncle ovate to 
ovate-lanceolat 
Stones re e long: drupe 6-8 mm. in diam 
Sep m Shorter than the Ropa eae pr 
S hito e sharply 4-angled. 6 
Sepals a as long as the hoodutituns drupe pale- 
blue: stone slightly angled. 
3. S. stricta. 
. S. microcarpa 
5. S. Priceae. 
. S. asperifolia. 
. S. Amomum. 
. S. alternifolia (L. f.) Small Shrub, or tree sometimes 9 m. tall: leaf- 
blades elliptic or oval, varying to ovate or obovate, 5-15 em. long, whitish be- 
