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  BOTAXTCAI. 
  GAZETTE, 
  g-> 
  

  

  Hab. 
  S. 
  Virginia 
  to 
  Florida, 
  westward 
  tlirough 
  the 
  Gulf 
  States 
  to 
  

   Texas, 
  thence 
  northward 
  through 
  Arkansas, 
  Missouri 
  and 
  Tennessee 
  to 
  the 
  

   Lower 
  Wabash 
  in 
  S. 
  Illinois. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  examined 
  : 
  Virginia 
  (i. 
  F. 
  Ward); 
  South 
  Carolina 
  (iJami^/, 
  

   Melhehamp); 
  Georgia 
  {Curtiss 
  1863); 
  Florida 
  {Chapman, 
  Rugd); 
  Ala- 
  

   bama 
  Mohr., 
  J. 
  D. 
  Smith) 
  ; 
  Tennessee 
  (J. 
  D. 
  Smith). 
  

  

  The 
  fruit 
  is 
  commonly 
  called 
  " 
  wild 
  olive." 
  

  

  4- 
  N. 
  Ogeche 
  Marshall, 
  Arbustiim 
  97 
  (1785). 
  A 
  tree 
  9 
  

   to 
  18 
  meters 
  high 
  : 
  leaves 
  thickish, 
  short-petioled, 
  oblong, 
  

   oval, 
  or 
  obovate, 
  mostly 
  obtuse 
  (sometimes 
  retuse) 
  and 
  mucro- 
  

   nate, 
  entire, 
  becoming 
  smooth 
  above, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  (usually 
  

   rusty) 
  pubescent 
  beneath, 
  6 
  to 
  13.5 
  cm. 
  long, 
  3.5 
  to 
  7.5 
  cm. 
  

   wide 
  : 
  staminate 
  flowers 
  in 
  capitate 
  clusters 
  : 
  fertile 
  flowers 
  

   perfect,_ 
  solitary, 
  on 
  very 
  short 
  peduncles 
  : 
  fruit 
  olive-shaped, 
  

   very 
  acid, 
  red, 
  24 
  to 
  36 
  mm. 
  long 
  ; 
  stone 
  oblong, 
  somewhat 
  

   flattened, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  fruit 
  and 
  10 
  to 
  14 
  mm. 
  broad, 
  the 
  

   acute 
  longitudinal 
  ridges 
  extended 
  into 
  about 
  12 
  conspicuous 
  

   membranous 
  wings.— 
  TT. 
  cap'iata 
  Walter 
  ( 
  1788). 
  A', 
  cocchiea 
  

   tiartram. 
  N. 
  tomentosa 
  Poir. 
  N. 
  candicans 
  Michx. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  In 
  swampy 
  ground 
  from 
  the 
  southern 
  border 
  of 
  South 
  Caro- 
  

   lina, 
  southward 
  through 
  the 
  Ogeechee 
  valley 
  of 
  Georgia 
  to 
  northern 
  (Clay 
  

   county) 
  and 
  western 
  (Washington 
  county) 
  Florida. 
  

  

  .Specimens 
  examined 
  : 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  Bluffton 
  (Mdlichamp) 
  ; 
  Georgia, 
  

  

  Ogeechee 
  river 
  {Darby, 
  Curtiss 
  1064); 
  Florida 
  (Chapman); 
  Hibernia 
  

   [Canhy). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  said 
  to 
  occur 
  in 
  Arkansas, 
  but 
  the. 
  specimens 
  

   that 
  we 
  have 
  seen 
  so 
  labeled 
  are 
  hirge-leaved 
  forms 
  of 
  N. 
  aquatica; 
  and 
  

   the 
  fruit 
  is 
  notat 
  all 
  that 
  of 
  K 
  Ogeche. 
  The 
  very 
  acid 
  fruits 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  

   are 
  called 
  "wild 
  limes.'- 
  

  

  3. 
  GARRYA 
  Dougl. 
  in 
  Lindl. 
  Bot. 
  Reg. 
  t. 
  1686.— 
  This 
  

   peculiar 
  southwestern 
  and 
  Mexican 
  genuS 
  seems 
  to 
  bear 
  n 
  

   leseniblance 
  to 
  our 
  two 
  other 
  genera 
  of 
  CornacccB, 
  The 
  

   ^ 
  ammate 
  and 
  fertile 
  flower-clusters 
  are 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  amen- 
  

   taceous, 
  though 
  sometimes 
  they 
  do 
  not 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  true 
  

   <iments. 
  ^ 
  For 
  convenience, 
  how^ever, 
  we 
  will 
  use 
  the 
  term 
  

   ament 
  for 
  the 
  flower 
  cluster, 
  meaning 
  simply 
  a 
  narrow 
  

   c 
  n'V^' 
  ^^^ss 
  elongated 
  bracteate 
  cluster. 
  The 
  fruit 
  is 
  usually 
  

   ^ 
  led 
  a 
  '* 
  berry," 
  presumably 
  because 
  it 
  generally 
  contains 
  

   vvo 
  stones, 
  but 
  otherwise 
  it 
  corresponds 
  very 
  well 
  with 
  the 
  

   <^*i'upes 
  of 
  other 
  Cornacece. 
  

  

  bracf 
  ^^^'^^ 
  aments 
  with 
  distant 
  flowers 
  and 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  foliaceous 
  

  

  w 
  

  

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  0. 
  ovata 
  Benth. 
  PI. 
  Hartw. 
  14. 
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  shrub 
  i^ 
  to 
  2 
  meters 
  

  

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