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is the low or dwarf-oak, mentioned already more than 

 once ; but of all these none remains green over winter. 



Besides the pines and oaks here remarked, the woods 

 and open fields about Charleston are pranked with 

 many other fine evergreen plants, which with tem- 

 perate winter-weather keep up in some measure the 

 charm of a perennial spring. I have remarked the 

 following : 



Ilex Aquifolium, Ilex Dahoon, and Ilex Cassine L. 

 All three sorts hold their leaves a lively green. 



01 ea Americana L. Ligustrum lauri folio &c. 

 Catesby I. 61. The leaves remain a bright green; as 

 also 



Prinos glaber L. Cassine vera florid anornm &c. 

 Catesb. II. 57. 



Lauras indica and Borbonia L. Both, but especially 

 the latter, keep very beautiful, their trunks pretty high 

 and 2-3 feet through. 



Kalmia latifolia, angustifolia, and prostrata L. The 

 first of these lasts the best. 



Lonicera sempervirens L. + does not remain entirely 

 green. 



Smilax laurifolia and tamnoides L. lose a few of 

 their leaves, but keep most of them and of a good 

 appearance. 



Bignonia sempervirens. Jasminum luteum Catesb. 

 I. 53, and another species, foliis conjugatis, continue 

 very beautiful if protected in the woods but otherwise 

 not so well. 



Magnolia grandiilora, tripelata, and glauca L. Both 

 the latter continue only partly leaved, according to the 

 nature of the winter ; but the first is literally evergreen, 

 and belongs among the trees of the first rank in this 



