NYS 
“NYQUAM, a town of — in the province of Up- 
land; 10 miles E. of Wafteg 
YSA, in Aan Garo See ScyTHOPOLIs. — 
Alfo, atowno ce, foes etree the rivers Meftus 
and Strymon, in that part of Thrace called Pzonia, after- 
wards united to Macedonia.—Alfo, a town of the ifla 
ra in Caria, fituated near 
padocia, in the route 
from Ancyra to Cefarea, ber Pathallue and Ofiana. 
—Alfo, a town of ie : — on - confines of Egypt. 
—Alfo, atown of Be n moun elicon.—Alfo, a 
town of India, Seaees Ee rivers Copies aad Indus. 
By Mela and Pliny it, is written Nefla.—Alfo, a town of 
Lybia.— Alfo, a town of Egypt.—Alfo, a town of Eu- 
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ea 
NYSAIS, or Nysza Regio, a country . — Minor, 
between Caria and Phrygia, beyond the Mea 
NYS > in eee a town of Sweden, in pro- 
vince of Warme a 3 1 es §.S.E.0 f Chriftian 
NYS sat einer Se. in “Welt Bothnia ; 32 
miles N.N.E. of Umea. 
NYSLOT, a town n the government of 
of Ruffia, i 
Viborg, on the lake Saima. Its "eallle ftands on a rock 
in a river near the town, and is well fortified both by 
art and nature; 50 miles 
NYSSA, in Botany, was fo called by Linnéns, becaufe, 
ys in the Hortus Cliffortianus, «it in the 
waters.” rs his Philofophia he mentions the name as that 
. Hence rome r Martyn eo it as the appel- 
lation of 4 waa nym but we have fought in vain for 
any fuch perfonage in poetic ftory. We are equally ig- 
norant of the oe of the American name, Tupelo tree.— 
Linn. G ee a Schreb. 737: Pas Mill. Did. v. 3: 
Ait. Hor ed. t.v. 3.446. Juff. 75.—Clafs and order, 
Polypamia Dini Linn. rather Dean Monogynia. Nat. 
Ord. AHfoleracee, Linn. Elaagni, Jull. 
Gen. Ch. “Cah Perianth ie hai a 
Gor. none. Stam. Fi 8 ten ve, 
awl-fhaped, ere@t, fhorter than the calyx 3 prey two- 
lobed, the length of the filaments. Ps?. Germen inferior, 
ovate 3 ftyle sage 10 ges — oe than : e 
ftamens; ftigma acute. rupa 
Nut elliptical, wr saga fomewhat Paes ted longi- 
tudinally grooved. 
ff. Ch. Calyx five-cleft. oo none. 
Drupa roundifh, inferi 
Obf. Some flowers have fall — ares saat 
I. os integrifolia. Mountain T t..Kew. 
Stamens ten 
ed. 1. v. 3. 446. 
adie ‘the firtt fynonym o 
— Leaves entire. r 
and cultiv 
above, lighter and 
nd_ clo e-grain ned, fo as to be 
much in requeft with wheel-wrights and other fuch a 
= a 
at: adentieulata. Ait. Hort. Kew. 
¥. X. et. 
iad 
rica, in wet {wamps or near large rivers, and introduced 
NYS 
into this country in 1735, by Mr. Peter Collinfon. — 
This ¢ree is from eighty to an hundred feet high, and. 
much branched oar its fummit. Leaves rather large, 
oval or {pear-fhaped, flightly toothed, downy beneath ; 
their footftalks long and flender. Dru in fhape and 
fize like {mall olives, indeed they are preferved by the 
French inhabitants - hed eee like that fruit. ‘The 
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which he calls Wyffa Ogeche. 
great fingularity and ere rifing to the height of thirty 
feet, whofe fruit is of a deep fcarlet colour, and the fize 
of a Damafcene plum. It has an agreeable acid te, 
whence it is called the Lime-tree 
Nyssa, in Gardening, a plant sr the aquatic ornamental 
tree kind, of which the fpecies are; the mountain tupelo 
(N. integrifolia) ; and the water tupelo (N. denticulata). 
naturally, putting pr into the ground as foon - ae are 
procured, as they lie long before they vegeta They 
fhould be fown in on filled with light loamy oa. placing 
old tan, peas-haulm 
in the following fpring they fhould be plunged into a ode: 
rate hot-bed, hooped and covered over with mats ; ad pa 
the plants are 
{ummer, the pots again plunged into an eaitern border, wa- 
tering them in dry weather, carefully removing them into a 
m autumn, where they may be fcreened from 
froft ; but n mild weather be expofed to the open air. In 
they may likewife be propagated by layen rs and 
cuttings, planted out in the autumn or {pring in the ufual 
ner. 
Thefe plants afford ornament and variety in the fhrub- 
bery and other parts, where the ground is of a moift 
quality. 
NYSSANTHES, in viene deadiar ti appellation 
from in allufion ous nature of 
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x) 
ov. 4 
trandria aia aa Nat. Ord, Amarantbi, or Amaranthacea, . 
uff. Bro 
Eff. Ch. “Calyx in four wn ware 3 the two outer 
ones unequal, hardening into {pin Stamens two or four, 
combined at the bafe, with oe ie {cales. Anthers of 
twa 
