. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 4. NYSSA L. Sp. PI. 1058. 1753. Trees or shrubs, with alternate petioled entire or dentate leaves. Flowers small, green- ish, polygamo-dioecious, in capitate clusters, short racemes, or the fertile ones sometimes solitary, borne at the summit of slender axillary peduncles, appearing with the leaves. Staminate flowers numerous, the calyx small, S-parted, the pet
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 4. NYSSA L. Sp. PI. 1058. 1753. Trees or shrubs, with alternate petioled entire or dentate leaves. Flowers small, green- ish, polygamo-dioecious, in capitate clusters, short racemes, or the fertile ones sometimes solitary, borne at the summit of slender axillary peduncles, appearing with the leaves. Staminate flowers numerous, the calyx small, S-parted, the petals minute and fleshy, or none; stamens S-15; filaments slender; disk entire or lobed; pistil none or rudimentary. Pistillate flowers 2-14, or solitary, bracted; calyx-limb 5-toothed, or truncate; petals minute and fleshy, or none; stamens several, or commonly abortive; ovary i-celled, with i pendu- lous ovule; style slender, recurved, stigmatic along one side near the apex. Drupe ovoid or oval; the stone bony, compressed, ridged or terete, i-seeded. [Name of a water nymph.] About 7 species, natives of eastern North America, eastern and central Asia. Besides the fol- lowing, another occurs in the Southern States. Type species : Nyssa aquatica L. Leaves usually entire ; pistillate flowers 2-14 ; fruit 3"-7" long. Leaves mostly acute or acuminate ; stone little flattened. i. N. sylvatica* Leaves mostly obtuse ; stone much flattened. 2. N. biflora. Leaves usually dentate ; pistillate flower solitary ; fruit 8"-i5" long. 3. N. aquatica. I. Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. Pepperidge. Sour Gum. Tupelo. Fig. 3192. Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. Arb. Am. 97. 1785. Nyssa multiftora Wang. Holz. 46. pi. 16. 1787. A large tree, with rough bark, reaching a maximum height of 110° and trunk diameter of 5°; branches horizontal, especially when the tree is young. Leaves obovate or oval, acute, acuminate, or obtuse at the apex, usually narrowed at the base, entire, glabrous and shining abov
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