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NYSSA OGECHE. 
Ogeechee Lime. Sour Tupelo. 
Fruit large, the stone conspicuously winged. 
usually acute at the apex. 
Leaves oblong-oval or obovate, 
Nyssa Ogeche, Marshall, Arbust. Am. 97 (1785).— Cas- 
tiglioni, Viag. negli Stati Uniti, ii. 305. — Sargent, Gar- 
den and Forest, ii. 435. — Coulter & Evans, Bot. Gazette, 
xv. 93. 
Nyssa capitata, Walter, Fl. Car. 253 (1788). — Poiret, 
Lam. Dict. iv. 508. — Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii. 257, 
Nyssa coccinea, W. Bartram, Travels, 17 (1791). 
Nyssa tomentosa, Poiret, Lam. Dict. iv. 508 (1796). 
Nyssa candicans, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 259 (1803). — 
Persoon, Syn. ii. 614. — Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i. 37. — 
Willdenow, Spec. iv. 1113.— Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i. 
177. — Poiret, Lam. Dict. Suppl. iv. 116. — Nuttall, 
t. 20.— Poiret, Lam. Dict. Suppl. v. 740. — Elliott, 
Sk. ii. 685. — Spach, Hist. Vég. x. 464. — Chapman, F7. 
168. — Koch, Dendr. ii. 456. — Lauche, Deutsche Dendr. 
Gen. ii. 236. — Roemer & Schultes, Syst. v. 576. — 
Sprengel, Syst. i. 832. — Dietrich, Syn. i. 879. — Loudon, 
Arb. Brit. iii. 1318, £. 1199. 
ed. 2, 543. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census 
U. S. ix. 91. 
Nyssa montana, Gertner f. Fruct. iii. 201, t. 216 (1805). 
A bushy tree, forty to fifty feet in height, with a short trunk occasionally two feet in diameter and 
spreading branches which form a narrow round-topped head; or often a shrub sending up from the 
ground a cluster of small slender diverging stems. The bark of the trunk is an eighth of an inch thick, 
irregularly fissured, with a dark brown surface broken into thick appressed persistent plate-like scales. 
The branchlets, when they first appear, are coated with rufous tomentum, and during their first summer 
are light reddish brown, or green tinged with red, and puberulous; during their first winter they turn 
gray or reddish brown, and are marked by the large lunate or nearly triangular leaf-scars in which 
appear the ends of three groups of fibro-vascular bundles. The winter-buds are obtuse, an eighth of 
an inch long, and covered with ovate apiculate imbricated scales rounded on the back and clothed with 
thick hoary tomentum ; those of the inner ranks lengthen on the growing shoots, and at maturity are 
ovate-oblong or obovate, rounded at the apex, bright red, and from one half to three quarters of an 
inch long. The leaves are oblong, oval or obovate, acute, rounded, or rarely obtuse and apiculate at the 
apex, gradually or abruptly wedge-shaped or sometimes rounded at the base, entire, deciduous; when 
they unfold they are covered on the lower surface with thick pale tomentum, and on the upper with 
short scattered appressed pale hairs; and at maturity they are thick and firm, dark green, rather 
lustrous and slightly pilose above, pale below, four to six inches long, and two to two and a half inches 
broad, with stout midribs and nine or ten pairs of primary veins covered on the lower side with rufous 
pubescence or often nearly glabrous, obscure reticulated veinlets, and stout grooved petioles from half 
an inch to an inch in length. The flowers are greenish yellow, and appear in March and April; the 
sterile are produced in capitate clusters on slender hairy peduncles, which are half an inch in length 
and furnished near the middle with two minute bractlets, and are developed from the axils of the inner 
scales of the terminal buds; the fertile are solitary on short stout woolly peduncles from the axils of 
bud-scales, and are furnished at the apex with two acute hairy bractlets. The sterile flowers are minute 
and are covered with long pale hairs on the outer surface of the short obscurely five-toothed calyx, and 
on the petals, which are oblong and rounded at the apex; the filaments are inserted under the margin 
of the thick pale pulvinate disk, and are longer than the petals ; the anthers are oval and conspicuously 
tuberculate-roughened. The fertile flowers are a sixteenth of an inch long, with a deep cup-shaped 
calyx coated, like the minute rounded spreading petals, with hoary tomentum ; the stamens which are 
