. Tupelobaum,Tupelo bianchiccio,Ogechee Lime-tree, Sour Tupelo-tree, Ogechee Lime-tree,Wild Lime-tree, MicHAux, North American Sylva. MicHAux, Flora Boreali-Americana. WiLLDENow, Linnsei Species Plantarum. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicura. France. Germany. Italy. Britain. United States. Derivation. The specific name candicans is derived from the Latin candeo, to be wtiite, having reference to the wliltislicolour of the leaves on their under surface. The word capitata is derived from caput, the head, on account of the male flowersbeing
. Tupelobaum,Tupelo bianchiccio,Ogechee Lime-tree, Sour Tupelo-tree, Ogechee Lime-tree,Wild Lime-tree, MicHAux, North American Sylva. MicHAux, Flora Boreali-Americana. WiLLDENow, Linnsei Species Plantarum. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicura. France. Germany. Italy. Britain. United States. Derivation. The specific name candicans is derived from the Latin candeo, to be wtiite, having reference to the wliltislicolour of the leaves on their under surface. The word capitata is derived from caput, the head, on account of the male flowersbeing grouped in little heads. It is called Sour Tupelo, Lime-tree, &c., from the agreeable acid juice contained in the fruit. Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 113; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, iii., fig. 1199; and the figuresbelow. Specific Characters. Leaf with the petiole very short, and the disk oblong, wedge-shaped at the base,nearly entire, whitish on the under surface. Female flowers one upon a peduncle.— Willdenow, LinnaiSpec. Description. HE Nyssa candicans, in its natural habitat, rarely ex-ceeds thirty feet in height, with a trunk seven or eightinches in diameter. The branches of the male trees^C are somewhat compressed about their trunks, and tendtowards a perpendicular direction; while those of the female trees diffuse them-selves horizontally, and form a larger summit. The leaves are fiveor six inches in length, oval, rarely denticulated, of a light-green above, andwhitish beneath. The male flowers are grouped in little heads, and appear inApril or May. The bracteas attending the female flowers are short, the calyxtomentose, with its lobes short. And the sexes are borne by separate fruit is supported by long peduncles, and is about an inch and a half inlength, of a light-red colour, and of an oval shape. It is thick-skinned,intensely acid, and contains a large, oblong stone, deeply channelled on bothsides. Variety. N. c.
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