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and compact when dry, which renders it very-pro- 
per for making trays, bowls, & c. 
2. Myssa Ogeche. The Ogeche Lime Tree . 
(Bartram’s Catalogue.) 
This is a tree of great Angularity and beauty; 
growing naturally in water, in the fouthern itates, 
and rifing to the height of about thirty feet. The 
leaves are oblong, of a deep fhining green on their 
upper (ides, and lightly hoary underneath. The 
flowers are male and female upon different trees, and 
are produced upon divided, or many flowered foot- 
italks. The fruit is nearly oval, of a deep red colour, 
of the fize of a Damafcene Plumb, and of an agree- 
able acid tafte; from which it is called the Lime- 
tree. Perhaps this is the multijlora of We lion. 
3. Nyssa fylvatica. Upland Tupelo-Tree , or 
Sour Gum . 
This grows naturally in Pennfylvania and perhaps 
elfewhere, rifing with a ftrong upright trunk to the 
height of thirty or forty feet, and fometimes of near 
two feet in diameter; fending off many horizontal, 
and often depending branches; garnifhed with oval, 
or rather inverfe egg-ihaped leaves, a little pointed, 
entire, of a dark green and (liming upper furface, 
but lighter and a little hairy underneath: thofe of 
male trees are often narrower and fometimes lance- 
ihaped. The flowers are produced upon pretty long 
common footftalks, ariflng from the bafe of the 
young (hoots, and dividing irregularly into feveral 
parts, generally from fix to ten; each fupporting a 
finall flower, having an empaiement of (ix or feven 
linear, unequal leaves, and from fix to eight awl- 
N (haped 
