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vf nearly the same hue both side^ ; cymes loose, flattish; anthirs and fruit pale blue. 

 — Swamps, Virginia and southward. April, May. — Shrub 8° -15° liigh. 



8. C. paniculata, LIltT. (Paxicled Coknel.) Blanches ymy, smooth; 

 leaves ovatt-Uimeululc, taper-pointed, acute at the base, whitish beneath but not 

 downy; cymes convex, loose, often ijaiiiclcd ; fruit white, depressed-f^loliosc. — 

 Thickets and river-banks. Jniie. — Slirub 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. altei'nif61ia, 1^. (ALTERXATK-LiiAVKi) Couxel.) Branches (jrem- 

 ish strriikfd iriih ir/ii/r, dl/irnate ; leaves ovate or oval, long-pointed, acute at the 

 base, whitish and minutely pubescent underneath ; //•(((< dicp blue on rv.'d<lish 

 stalks. — Hillsides in copses. May, June. — Slirub or tree 8° -20° high, with 

 flattish top, and very open, broad cymes. 



2. NYSSA, L. Tlpllo. I'ErrEKiDGE. Sour-Gum Tree. 



Flowers diceciously polygamous, clustered or rarely solitary at the summit 

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

 cluster of fiiscicles. Caly.K small, 5-parted. Petals as in fertile flower or none. 

 Stamens 5-1-2, oftener 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 staminate flowers. Calyx with a very short re- 

 pand-truncate or minutely .5-toothed limb. Petals very small and fleshy, decidu- 

 ous, or often wanting. Stamens b - 10, with perfect or imperfect ai.tlu-rs. Style 

 elongated, rcvolutc, stigmatic down one side. Ovary one-celled. Drupe ovoid 

 or oblong, with a bony and grooved or striate 1-celled and 1 -seeded stone. — 

 Trees with entire or sometimes angulatc-toothed leaves, which are alternate, but 

 mostly crowded at the end of the branchlets, and greenish flowers appearing- 

 with the leaves. (The name of a Nym])h : "so called because it [the original 

 species] grows in the water.") 



1. N. multiflbra, Wang. (Tupelo. Pepperidge. Black or Sour 

 Gum.) Leaves oval or obovate, commonly acuminate, glabrous or villous-pubes- 

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

 (2' - 5' long) ; fori He flowers 3 - 8, at the summit of a slender peduncle : fru't ovoid, 

 bluish-black (about i' long). (N. sylvatica, J/ars/i. N. villosa, Willd,&.c.) — 

 Kich .soil, either moist or nearly dry, Massachusetts to Illinois, and southward. 

 April, May. — A middle-sized tree, with liorizontal branches and a light Hat 

 spray, like the Beech : the wood firm, close-grained ami very unwedgeable, on 

 account of the obli(pie direction and crossing of the fil)re of ditlcrent layers. 

 Leaves turning bright crimson in autumn. 



2. N. uniflora, Walt. (Large Tupelo.) Loaves oblong or ovate, some- 

 times slightly eonlatc at the ba.se, long-])Ctiuled, entire or angulatc-toothed, jiale 

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

 solitary on a slender peduncle ; fruit cHilimij, blue (1' or more in length). (N. dcn- 

 ticulata. Ait. N. tomentosa, and angulisans, Michr. \. grandidentata, Miclix. 

 f.) — In water or wet swamps, Virginia, Kentucky, and .southward. April.- - 

 Wood soft : that of the root^ very light and spongy, used for corks. 



