168 CORNACEE. (DOGWOOD FAMILY.) 
drupes pale blue. — Dry woods, Florida to South Carolina, and westward, 
June. — A shrub or small tree. Branches slender and sometimes warty. . 
* * Flowers capitate, subtended by a white 4-leaved involucre. 
6. C. florida, L. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, at length smooth on 
both sides ; flowers greenish ; drupes ovoid, red.— Oak woods, common. May. 
— A small tree. Wood hard and close-grained. ‘Leaves of the involucre emat- 
ginate and thickened at the summit, showy. ; 
'2. NYSSA, L. Sour Gum. 
Flowers dicecio-polygamous. Sterile flowers in many-flowered heads or cymes. 
| Calyx 5-parted. Stamens 5-10. Petals and pistil none. Fertile flowers single 
or few in a head. Calyx-limb 5-toothed or obsolete. Petals 5, minute, or want- 
ing. Stamens 5-10, mostly sterile. Style long, revolute. Stigma decurrent. 
Ovary I-celled. Drupe 1-seeded.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire _ 
or rarely toothed, finely reticulated. Flowers small, greenish, on axillary or 
lateral peduncles. — 
* Sterile flowers in loose clusters. 
1. N. multiflora, Wang. Leaves oval'or obovate, mostly acute, tomen- 
tose when young, at length shining above ; fertile peduncles long and slender, _ 
3 - 8-flowered ; drupes ovoid, dark blue. — Rich upland woods, Florida to Mis- — 
sissippi, and northward. May.— A tree 30°-50° high, with widely spreading 
branches. Leaves rather thick, dark green, 2/—5/ long. Fertile peduncles y= 
3' long. Drupe }! long. 
2. N. aquatica, L. Branches, leaves, &c. tomentose when young, 9t 
length nearly smooth ; leaves short-petioled, varying from lanceolate to orbicu- 
lar, obtuse, sometimes slightly cordate; peduncles short, the fertile ones 1-2 
flowered ; drupes oval, blue.— Ponds and swamps, Florida to North Carolina, 
and westward. April and May.— A large tree, or in pine-barren swamps 
sometimes a mere shrub. Leaves 1'—2! long. Peduncles’}/-1/ long. Drupé 
smaller than in the last. 
. $. N. uniflora, Walt. Leaves large, long-petioled, ovate or oblong, acute, 
entire or sharply toothed, tomentose beneath, the lower ones often cordate; fet - 
tile peduncles elongated, 1-flowered; drupes ovate-oblong, dark blue. (N. 
. tomentosa, Miche. N. grandidentata, Michx. f) — Deep swamps and ponds, 
Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April. — A large tree. Leaves 
d Drupe $8" 12" long. 
4 T cate, at oe earners short petiole’, 
