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PAMILIAK TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



in size (rarely it grows 45 feet high), and has hori- 

 zontal branches, a rough grayish trunk, and elHpti- 

 cal pointed leaves about two to five inches long, 

 dark shiny green above but lighter below. The 

 leaves turn a brilliant dark red in the autunm. The 

 wood is exceedingly close-grained, tough, and hard 



to split ; for this reason 

 it is employed in the 

 making of hubs, pul- 

 leys, and mauls. In 

 Virginia it is much used 

 by the ship-builders. 



The leaf of the 

 Water Tupelo. 



Sy..aUflora. Water tupelo is 

 Nysm syivatica, yerv nearly like 



Water Tupelo. ^av. hiflora. 



that of the 



foregoing species, but it is smaller ; we must rely, 



therefore, on other means for the identification of the 



tree. It grows from the pine barrens of liew Jersey 



southward. The blue fruit is smaller, and the stone 



is decidedly flattened and strongly ridged ; this is not 



the case in the other tupelo, which bears a larger fmit 



with a rounder stone (ovoid) scarcely ridged at all. 



large Tupelo. The large tupelo bears a leaf from 



Nyisa uniflora. four to ten inches long, which is 



sometimes angularly toothed, and 



often quite downy beneath ; it is also apt to be a 



