The black gum, a species of Nyssa.
1816. The tupeloo, known in Louisiana by the popular name of olive, from its fruit bearing a resemblance to that of the well known tree of the same name.—W. Darby, ‘Louisiana,’ p. 62.
1818. It is named by Darby, in his ‘Emigrant’s Guide,’ p. 80, as the Nysa or Nyssa aquatica.
1845. A swamp-bottom, the growth of which consisted of mingled cypresses and bay-trees, with tupola, gum, and dense thickets of low stunted shrubbery, cane grass, and dwarf willows, which filled up every interval between the trees, and to the eye most effectually barred out every human intruder.—W. G. Simms, ‘The Wigwam and the Cabin,’ p. 15 (Lond.).
1855. Secure of a second means of flight in the branches of a tupola hanging above him into which a customary leap would easily carry him.—The same, ‘Border Beagles,’ p. 306 (N.Y.).
