. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Botany. 392 Okdeb 65.—CORNACE^E. /?. ASPERirdLiA Feay. Lvs. scabrous-pubescent above, downy beneath, rather inclined to elliptical; cymes scabrous.—S. and W. States. (C. asperifolia Mx.)" 8 C. circinata L. Branches verrucous; lvs. orbicular or very broadly oval, white tomentous beneath; cymes spreading, depressed; drupes light blue.—A shrub some 6f high, Can. to Md., W. to Ind. St. grayish, upright, with opposite, cylin- drical,
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Botany. 392 Okdeb 65.—CORNACE^E. /?. ASPERirdLiA Feay. Lvs. scabrous-pubescent above, downy beneath, rather inclined to elliptical; cymes scabrous.—S. and W. States. (C. asperifolia Mx.)" 8 C. circinata L. Branches verrucous; lvs. orbicular or very broadly oval, white tomentous beneath; cymes spreading, depressed; drupes light blue.—A shrub some 6f high, Can. to Md., W. to Ind. St. grayish, upright, with opposite, cylin- drical, green, spotted or warty branches. Lvs. large, about as broad as long, opposite, acuminate, crowned with a white, thick down on the under side. Fls. white. Berries hollowed at base, soft, crowned with the remains of the style. Jn. 2. NYSSA, L. (The name of a nymph or naiad, says Linnaeus.) Tulepo, Gum-tree. Fls. dioecious or polygamous. $ Calyx tube very short, limb truncate; petals 5, oblong; stam. 5—12, mostly 10, inserted outside a glandular disk in the bottom of the calyx ; ovary 0. $ Calyx- tube oblong, adherent to the 1-celled ovary, limb truncate, a mere rim as in $ ; petals 2—5, oblong, often 0 or soon deciduous; stam. mostly abortive; style large, stigmatic on one side; drupe oval, 1-seeded.— Trees with small green, fls. clustered on axillary peduncles, the sterile more numerous. 1 N. multifldra "Wang. Lvs. oblong-obovate, acutish or obtuse at each end, entire; the petiole, midvein and margin villous; fertile peduncles 3 (2—o)-/bwered; style revolule; nut short, obovate, striate, obtuse.—Woodlands dry or damp. U. S. A large tree, 30 to 7Of in hight, trunk 1—3f diam. with a light gray hexagonally broken bark. Lvs. of a firm texture, 2—5' long, half as wide. £ Peduncles 5—9-flowered, fil. at length slender. Drupe often solitary, blackish blue, 5—6" long. Wood soft, but hard to split. Apr.—Jn. (N. aquatica and biflora, auth.) 2 N. unifl
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