IG2 CORN/LCE^E. (DOGWOOD FAMILY.) 



8. C. pailicillata, L'Hcr. (PAXICLED CORNEL.) Branches gmy, 

 smooth ; Icacts oc ale-lanceolate, taper-pointed, acute at the base, whitish beneath but 

 not downy; cymes convex, loose, often panic-led ; fruit ichite, depressed-globose. 

 Thickc'ts and river-banks. June. Shrub 4 -8 high, very much branched, 

 bearing a profusion of pure white blossoms. 



# # Leaves mostly alternate, crowded at the ends of the branches. 



9. C. altcriliiolia, L. (ALTERNATE-LEAVED COIINEL.) Branches 

 greenish streaked with white, alternate; leaves ovate or oval, long-pointed, acute at 

 the base, whitish and minutely pubescent underneath ; //v// deep blue. Hill- 

 sides in copses. May, June. Shrub or tree 8 -20 high, generally throwing 

 its branches to one side in a Saltish top, and with broad, very open cymes. 



2* NITSSA, L. TUPELO. PEPPERIDGE. SOUR GUM-TREE. 



Flowers dicecieusly polygamous, clustered or rarely solitary at the summit 

 of axillary peduncles. Stam. Fl. numerous in a simple or compound dense 

 cluster of fascicles. Calyx small, 5-parted. Stamens 5-12, oftcncr 10, inserted 

 on the outside of a convex disk : filaments slender : anthers short. No pistil. 

 Pist. Fl. solitary or 2 - 8, sessile in a bracted cluster, much larger than the stam- 

 inatc flowers. Calyx with a very short repand-truncate or minutely 5-toothed 

 limb. Petals very small and fleshy, deciduous, or often wanting. Stamens 5 - 

 10, with perfect anthers, or imperfect. Style elongated, revolutc, stigmatic 

 down one side. Ovaiy one-celled. Drupe ovoid or oblong, with a bony and 

 grooved or striate 1-celled and 1-seeded stone. Trees, with entire or some- 

 times angulate-toothcd leaves, which are alternate, but mostly crowded at the end 

 of the branchlets, and greenish flowers appearing with the leaves. (The name 

 of a Nymph : " so called because it [the original species] grows in the water.") 



1. N. iiiultifSora, Wang. (TUPELO. PEPPERIDGE. BLACK or SOUR 

 GUM.) Leaves oval or obovate, commonly acuminate, glabrous or villous-pnbc-s- 

 cent when young, at least on the margins and midrib, shining above when old 

 (2' -5' long) ; fertile flowers 3-8, at the summit of a slender peduncle ; fruit 

 ovoid, bluish-black (about ' long). (N. aquatica, L., at least in part; but the 

 tree is not aquatic. N. sylvutica, Marsh. N. villosa, Wil/d, c., &c.) Rich 

 soil, cither moist or nearly dry, Massachusetts to Illinois, and southward. April, 

 May. A middle-sized tree, with horizontal branches and a light flat spray, 

 like the Beech : the wood firm, close-grained, and very unwcdgeablc, on account 

 of the oblique direction and crossing of the fibre of different layers. Leaves 

 turning bright crimson in autumn. 



2. N. i: n i flora, Walt. (LARGE TUPELO.) Leaves oblong or ovate, 

 sometimes slightly cordate at the base, long-petioled, entire or angulate-toothrd, 

 pale and downy-pubescent beneath, at least when young (4' -12' long) ; fertile 

 flower solitary on a slender peduncle; fruit oblong, blue (!' or more in length). 

 (N. denticulata, Ait. N. tomentosa and angulisans, Mi<-h.r. N. grandidentata, 

 Mi- /<./-. f.) In water or wet swamps, Virginia, Kentucky, and southward 

 April. Wood soft : that of the roots verj light and spongy, used for corks 



