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In the vicinity of Madison it was the only species of Tilia noted. 
It is said to occur as far north as Vernon in Jennings County. 
The published records of the distribution are as follows: Clark 
(Baird and Taylor); Delaware (Phinney)*; Gibson (Schneck); Jef- 
ferson (J. M. Coulter). 
Additional records are: Clark, Dearborn and Jefferson (Deam). 
CORNACEA. Tue Docwoop Famty. 
Trees or shrubs, leaves alternate, opposite or whorled; fruit 
mostly a drupe, 1 or 2 seeded. 
Leaves alternate; flowers of two kinds, the staminate in 
heads, 5-parted: stigmas lateral’... ..5.......:.....- 1 Nyssa. 
Leaves mostly opposite; flowers perfect, 4-parted, stig- 
mas terminal. 
Flowers in open cymes, not subtended by a large in- 
ViO LUC RE me eaeecpa eatin del an nascmac ce mer ati spene a Ni chen aie imag 2 Cornus. 
Flowers in heads subtended by a large involucre....... 3 Cynoxylon. 
1. NYSSA. TuHEe TuPEtos. 
1. Nyssa sylvatica Marshall. Gum. Buack Gum. Sour Gum. 
PerrperRipGEe. Plate 118. Bark of old trees thick, deeply and irreg- 
ularly furrowed, from a light to a very dark brown, branches smooth 
and brown; twigs slender; winter buds obtuse about 5 mm. (14 
inch) long, leaves entire or sometimes angular toothed, oval obo- 
vate or oblong, 5-12 cm. (2-5 inches) long, more or less acute at the 
apex, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, hairy when expanding, 
glabrous and shiny at maturity, or with some pubescence beneath 
along the veins, a glossy dark green above; flowers appear with the 
leaves in April or May, small greenish-white, the pistillate and 
staminate usually on different trees, the pistillate 2-8 or solitary, 
the staminate numerous; fruit a fleshy drupe, ovoid, blue-black, 
sour and astringent, ripens in September and October, usually in 
clusters of 3; stone generally cylindric with 10-12 indistinct ribs. 
Distribution. Maine and central Michigan south to the Gulf 
States and west to Texas. It is well distributed in Indiana. Not 
frequent in the northern counties, rare in the central part and fre- 
quent in the southern half of the State. In the northern part of 
the State it is found associated with the swamp white and burr 
oaks. In the southern part of the State it is frequently found in 
*Reported by Phinney as occuring in central-eastern Indiana. Reference to Phinney’s botany, 
which is now in the Indianapolis Public Library, in which he kept a record of the plants noted by 
marking them with an X, shows this species was not marked, so this reference should be dropped. 
