CORNEL FAMILY. 159. 
cillate branches once furnished distaffs for spinsters,—in the “ good old 
pre when that i of females had a practical existence in the 
com: aig ne e : a xcellent tonic—almost egg ed the Pe- 
ruvia acy. he tury since, according m, there was so 
ching faith i in ste virtues “of or Me: ood, that “ when ‘the cattle fall 
e spring, of this 
tree on their neck, thinking it oil help them!” Altogether, and with- 
out any joke—it is a valuable as well as ornamental little tree —worthy 
of a place in lawns and yards. Observing farmers have remarked that 
the proper time to plant Indian corn is when the invobueres of the Dog- 
ood are first developed. There are several other species, with flowers 
in large flat cymes, common in thickets. They all 
beauty, and will be found described in the systematic works. 
2. NYS’SA, LZ. . Tupexo. 
name of a Water Nymph ; applied to this genus 
Flowers aeeeal ge ope cluste STAMINATE Frowm with a 
5-parted calyx and -5~-12, oftener 10 stamens mandy around a 
xem a calyx 
agate or pat ti i aa 
ones . a cules or mec 
cluster of lenigice, the pistillate ones much ee oa either peso: 
or in clusters of 2-8; appearing with the lea : 
1. N. muLririo’Ra, Par. Leaves oval wi Gdvataldsnh at each 
end, often acuminate, entire ; fertile peduncles, mostly 3-flowered. 
Many-rLowerED Nyssa. Sour Gum. Black Gum. Pepperidge. Tupelo. 
Stem 30- n-00 9 r 70 feet high, and 1-2 feet in diameter ; branches numerous, horizon- 
tally spreading and often a little hides ig Leaves 2-4 inches long, dark green n and shin- : 
ing above, paler and pubescent beneath ; petioles half an inch to an inch long, often mar- 
gined, HL ornidhnart villous- ciliate. ‘Staminate ers pedicellate, 2~5 or 6 in a loose 
cluster, on a slender common peduncle about an {neh lo long. 4sessile, mostly — 
3 in'a dense involucrate cluster (sometimes 2, or a 1), on a eon common peduncle, 
bere at first is about half an Ge peebans hog mle’ 4, an inch and a half—in length. 
elliptic, near half an inch lon, -black when 1 
Moist wopdianis and ee unas” throughout the United States. FI. May-June. Pr. 
Obs. The wi woody fibres o of this tree are See terlocked, 50 8 
to render it very difficult to — account it is much ; 
aki fab == ‘4 e whee ecls—and._ also aloo ;hsthons bloc 
