1318 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Spec. Char., Sc. Leaves oblong, entire, acute at both ends; with the 
petiole, midrib, and edge villous. Female flowers, about three upon a 
peduncle. (Willd. Sp. Pl., iv. p. 1113.) Peduncle of female flowers long, 
and for the most part two-flowered. Nut 
small, ovate, obtuse, striated. (Michx.) A 
deciduous tree, a native of z= 
North America, where it & 
grows from 60 ft. to 70 ft. = 
high,and flowers in April and * 
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May. It was introduced in 
1824, and is occasionally to 
be met with in collections. 
N. sylvatica Michr., which we have made 
/ ~~ synonymous with N. villdsa, on the authority 
of Pursh (see FV. Amer. Sept. Addenda, ii. p. 175.), is said by Michaux to 
exhibit a remarkable singularity in its vegetation. “ In Maryland, Virginia, 
and the western states,” he observes, “where it grows on high and level 
ground with the oaks and the walnuts, it is distinguished by no peculiarity 
of form: but in the lower part of the Carolinas and of Georgia, where it is 
found only in wet places, with the small magnolia or white bay (Magnolia 
glaica), the red bay (Laurus carolinénsis), the loblolly bay (Gordonia Lasi- 
anthus), and the water oak (Quércus aquatica), it has a pyramidal base, 
resembling a sugar loaf; a trunk 18 ft. or 20 ft. high, and 7in. or 8 in, in dia- 
meter, at the surface of the ground; which, a foot higher, is only 2 in, or 
3in. thick; the proportions, however, varying in different individuals.” (N. 
Amer. Syl., iii. p. 34.) This tree appears to differ very little from N. biflora, 
except in the greater height attained by the tree, and in the downiness of the 
petioles of the leaves. The fruit is of the same size and colour, generally 
produced in pairs on similar peduncles, and the wood is of the same descrip- 
tion, fine-grained, but tough. “ The alburnum of the trunks of trees growing 
upon dry and elevated lands is yellow; and this colour, being considered 
by wheelwrights as a proof of the superior quality of the wood, has probably 
given rise to the name of yellow gum, which is sometimes applied to this 
species.” (JIbid.) The wood is used for all purposes, for which timber is 
required of moderate dimensions, which is not lable to split. The only 
plant which we have seen of this kind is in the arboretum of Messrs. 
Loddiges, where, in 1835, it was 10 ft. high, and had produced male 
blossoms ; but it died in the spring of 1836, apparently from the soil being 
too dry. 
* 3. N. ca’npicans Miche. The whitish-leaved Nyssa, or Ogechee 
Lime Tree. 
identification. Michx, Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p.259.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 1113. 
Synonymes. N. capitata Walt., Ait. Hort. Kew, Miche, N. Amer, Syl., 3. p.43.; N. coccinea Bar 
tram; Sour Tupelo Tree, Ogechee Lime Tree, Wild Lime; weisslicher Tulpelobaum, Ger, 
Engravings, Michx. N, Amer, Syl. 3. t. 113. ; and our fig. 1199, 
Spec. Char. §c. Leaf with the petiole very 
short, and the disk oblong, wedge-shaped at 
the base, nearly entire, whitish on the under 
surface. Female flowers one upon a pe- 
duncle. (Willd. Sp. Pi,, iv. p. 1113.) It varies, 
with its leaves obovate, entire, or rarely sub- 
dentate. The male flowers are grouped into 
little heads. The bracteas attending the 
female flowers are short; the calyx of these /~74 
flowers is tomentose; its lobes are short. 
The drupe is oblong. (JJichaux.) A deci- 
duous tree, a native of Carolina, on the i 
banks of rivers, particularly the Ogechee. It is the smallest tree of the 
genus, rarely exceeding 30 ft. in height. It was introduced in 1806. 
