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Title: Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Lewis, Isaac McKinney, 1878-1943
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Austin, University of Texas
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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Iig. 46. Sassafras sassafras. NYSSACEAE Diimort. Dogwood Family. Trees or shrubs with opposite or alternate entire, firm,leathery leaves; flowers in clusters, with or without involuere;fruit a drupe rarely two seeded. Leaves alternate 1. Nyssa. Leaves opposite. Flowers in heads, subtended by an involuere of white bracts 2. Cynoxylon. Flowers not subtended by an involuere 3. Svida. 144 Bidletin of the Umversity of TexasNYSSA (Granoviiis) L. Trees with alternate, mostly entire leaves which ar 3 con-spicuous for their bright red autumnal coloration. Flowerssmall greenish. Fruit a black drupe. Pistillate flowers and drupes in clusters. .Pistillate flowers and drupes borne singly 1. N. sylvatica. 2. N. aquatica. 1. Nyssa Slyvatica )\Iarshal. Sour Gum. A large foresttree 80°-100° high with spreading slender branches, greenish
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Fig-. 47. Nyssa sylvatica. yellow twigs, and dark brown, deeply furrowed bark. Leavesoval to obovate, rounded at the base, 5-7 long, 2-4 wide,somewhat pointed at the apex, mostly entire margined, smoothand lustrous above, paler and slightly hairy beneath. Flowersdioecious, the staminate in dense clusters, the pistillate inclusters of three. Fruit in clusters of three, dark blue, Avithacrid bitter flesh. In moist places Maine to Ontario, Michigan, Florida, andextending to the valley of the Brazos in Texas. The wood issoft, weak, close grained, used for box boards. The Trees of Texas 145 2. Nyssa aquatica (L.). Oiini. A lar^e, narrow toppedtree with dark ))rowii, fissured ))ark and reddish brown twigs.Leaves thick, firm, ovate to elliptic, pointed at the apex, entireor with angular teeth on the margin, dark green and lustrousabove, paler and hairy beneath. FloAvers dioecious, the stam-inate in clusters, the pistillate solitary. Fruit a purple drupe. In swampy places Virginia to Missouri

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