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seasoned, but light and compact when dry, which 

 renders it very proper for making trays, bowls, Sec. 

 The root is very soft and light, and makes good bot- 

 tle stoppers. 



JVyssa Qgeche* The ogeche lime tree. This is a 

 tree of great singularity and beauty ; growing natu- 

 rally in water, in the southern states, and rising to 

 the height of about thirty feet. The leaves are ob- 

 long, of a deep shining green on their upper sides, 

 and lightly hoary underneath. The flowers are male 

 and female upon different trees, and are produced upon 

 divided or many-flowered footstalks. The fruit is 

 nearly oval, of a deep red colour, of the size of a Da- 

 mascene plumb, and of an agreeable acid taste ; 

 from which it is called the lime tree. Perhaps this 

 is the multiflora of Weston. 



JVyssa sylvatica. Upland tupelo tree, or sour 

 gum. This grows naturally in Pennsylvania, and per- 

 haps elsewhere, with a strong upright trunk to the 

 height of thirty or forty feet, and sometimes near two 

 feet in diameter; sending off many horizontal, and 

 often depending branches; garnished with oval, or 

 rather inverse egg-shaped leaves, a little pointed, en- 

 tire, of a dark green and shining upper surface, but 

 lighter and a little hairy underneath : those of male, 

 trees are often narrower and sometimes lance- 

 shaped. The flowers are produced upon pretty long 

 common footstalks, arising from the base of the youn|^ 

 shoots, and dividing irregularly into several parts, 

 generally from six to ten ; each supporting a small 

 flower, having an empalement of six or seven linear^ 

 unequal leaves, and from six to eight awl-shaped, 

 spreading stamina, supporting short four-lobed an- 



