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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

BART Ill.

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Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves oblong, entire, acute at both ends; with thepetiole, midrib, and edge villous. Female flowers, about three upon apeduncle. ( Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 1113.) Peduncle of female flowers long,and for the most part two-flowered. Nutsmall, ovate, obtuse, striated. ( Michx .) A

deciduous tree, a native ofNorth America , where itgrows from 60 ft. to 70 ft.high,and flowers in April and +

May. It was introduced in1824, and is occasionally tobe met with in collections.

N. sylvatica Michx., which we have madesynonymous with N. villdsa, on the authorityof Pursh (see FI. Amer. Sept. Addenda, ii. p. 175.), is said by Michaux toexhibit a remarkable singularity in its vegetation. “ In Maryland , Virginia,and the western states,” he observes, “ where it grows on high and levelground with the oaks and the walnuts, it is distinguished by no peculiarityof form : but in the lower part of the Carolinas and of Georgia, where it isfound only in wet places, with the small magnolia or white bay (Magnoliaglauca), the red bay (Lauras carolinensis), the loblolly bay (Gordonia Lasi-anthus), and the water oak (Quereus aquatica), it has a pyramidal base,resembling a sugar loaf; a trunk 18 ft. or 20 ft. high, and 7 in. or 8 in. in dia-meter, at the surface of the ground; which, a foot higher, is only 2 in. or3 in. thick; the proportions, however, varying in different individuals.” (N.Amer. Syl., iii. p. 34.) This tree appears to differ very little from N. biflora,except in the greater height attained by the tree, and in the downiness of thepetioles of the leaves. The fruit is of the same size and colour, generallyproduced in pairs on similar peduncles, and the wood is of the same descrip-tion, fine-grained, but tough. “ The alburn um of the trunks of trees growingupon dry and elevated lands is yellow; and this colour, being consideredby wheelwrights as a proof of the superior quality of the wood, has probablygiven rise to the name of yellow gum, which is sometimes applied to thisspecies.” (Ibid.) The wood is used for all purposes, for which timber isrequired of moderate dimensions, which is not liable to split. The onlyplant which we have seen of this kind is in the arboretum of Messrs.Loddiges, where, in 1835, it was 10 ft. high, and had produced maleblossoms; but it died in the spring of 1836, apparently from the soil beingtoo dry.

51 3. N. ca'ndicans Michx. The whitish-Lored Nyssa, or OgecheeLime Tree.

Identification. Michx. FI. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 259.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 1113.

Synonymes. N. capitata Walt., Ait. Hort. Kew, Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 43.; N. cocclnea Boittram ; Sour Tupelo Tree, Ogechee lame Tree, Wild Lime; weisslicher Tulpelobaum, Ger.

Engravings . Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3.1113. ; and our fig. V“' n

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaf with the petiole veryshort, and the disk oblong, wedge-shaped atthe base, nearly entire, whitish on the undersurface. Female flowers one upon a pe-duncle. (Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 1113.) It varies,with its leaves obovate, entire, or rarely sub-dentate. The male flowers are grouped intolittle heads. The bracteas attending thefemale flowers are short; the calyx of theseflowers is tomentose; its lobes are short.

The drupe is oblong. (Michaux.) A deci-duous tree, a native of Carolina, on thebanks of rivers, particularly the Ogechee. It is the smallest tree of thegenus, rarely exceeding 30 ft. in height. It was introduced in 180 s '