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* The Male. 
The Empalement is five-parted and fpreading, with a plane bot- 
tom. * \ 
The Corolla none. **'■ * 
The Filaments are ten, awl-fhaped and ihorter 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 ar.e five, awl-fhaped,. and ereft. The Anther <e 
are fimple. 
The Germen is ovate and beneath. The Style is awl-fhaped, in- 
curved, and longer than the fiamina. S he Stigma is acute. 
The Seed-vejjel 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 fylvatica is Male and Female on different 
trees. 
The Species are, 
j. Nvssa aquatica. Virginian Water Tupelo- 
Tree . 
This grows naturally in wet fwamps, or near large 
rivers, in Carolina and Florida; riling with a ftrong 
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-fhap- 
ed form, generally entire, but fometimes fomewliat 
toothed, and covered underneath with a whitilh 
down: they are joined to long, flender footftalks, 
and affixed to the branches in fomewhat of a verti* 
dilate order, prefenting a beautiful varied foliage. 
The berries are near the fize and lhape of fmall 
olives, and are preferved in like manner by the 
French inhabitants upon the Miffiffippi, where it 
greatly abounds, and is called the Olive tree. The 
timber is white and foft when unfeafoned, but light 
and 
