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^Tho Male. ■ 



The kmpalemem is five-parted and fpreading, with a plane bot- 

 tom. 



The Corolla none. 



The Filaments are ten, awl-lliaped and fhorter than the calyx. 



The Anthem are twin and the length of the filaments. 

 *The Hermaphrodite. 



The Empalement as in the male, fitting upon the germen. 

 The Corolla none. 



The Filaments are five, awi-lliaped, and ereft. The Anthers 

 are fimple. 



The Germen is ovate and beneath. The Sfjle is awl-fhaped, in- 

 curved, and longer than the ftamina. j he Stigma is acute. 



The Seed-veJJ'el is a drupe, ovate and one cell'd. 



The Seed is a nut, oval, acute, hollowed with longitudinal 

 furrows, angled, and irregular. 



Obf. The Nyffa fyivatica is Male and Female on different 



The Species are^ 



I. Nyssa aquatica. Virginian Water Tupelo-- 

 Tree. 



This grows naturally in wet fwamps, or near large 

 rivers, in Carolina and Florida; rifing with aftrong 

 upright trunk to the height of eighty or an hundred 

 feet, dividing into many branches towards the top. 

 The leaves are pretty large, of an oval, fpear-fliap- 

 ed fonii, generally entire, buc fometimes fomewhat 

 toothed, and covered underneath with a whitifli 

 down: they are joined to long, flender footftalks, 

 and affixed to the branches in fomewhat of a verti- 

 cillate order, prefenting a beautiful varied foliage. 

 The berries are near the fize and fliape of fmall 

 olives^ and are preferved in like manner by the 

 French inhabitants upon the Miffiffippi, where it 

 greatly abounds, and is called the Ohve tree.* The 

 timber is white and foft when unfeafonedj but light 



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