Statk Board of Forestry. 321 



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 pubHshed records of the (hstribution are as follows: (Mark 

 (Baird and Taylor); Delaware (Phinney)*; Gibson (Schneck); Jef- 

 ferson (J. M. Coulter). 



Additional records are: Clark, Dearborn and Jefferson (Deam). 



CORNACE^. The Dogwood Family. 



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 1 Nyssa. 



Leaves mostly opposite; fl wers perfect, 4-parted, stig- 

 mas terminal. 

 Flowers in open cymes, not subtended by a large in- 

 volucre 2 Cornus. 



Flowers in heads subtended by a large involucre 3 Cynoxylon. 



1. NYSSA. The Tupelos. 



1. Nyssa sylvatica Marshall. Gum. Black Gum. Sour Gum. 

 Pepperidge. Plate 118. Bark of old trees thick, deeply and irreg- 

 ularly furrowed, from a hght to a very dark brown, branches smooth 

 and brown; twigs slender; winter buds obtuse about 5 mm. (3^ 

 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 cyhndric 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 IndianapoUs 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. 



