SCHOPF AMERICAN TRAVELS. 



leaves approach in shape those of the common black oak, but are 

 smaller, of a thicker structure, and keep green pretty well throughout 

 the winter. 



The other oaks found hereabouts are: The common black oak, 

 the red oak, the red water-oak, the white, and the chestnut oak. Some- 

 what farther inland there 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 temperate 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 these sorts 

 hold their leaves a lively green. 



Olea Americana L. Ligustrum lauri folio, etc. Catesby I, 6i. The 

 leaves remain a bright green ; as also 



Prinos glaber L. Cassini vera floridanorum, etc. Catesb. II, 57. 



Laurus 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 h. The first of these 

 lasts the best. 



Lonicera semperv'irens L. does not remain entirely green. 



Smilax lauri folia 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 an- 

 other species, foliis conjugatis, continue very beautiful if protected 

 in the woods, but otherwise not so well. 



Magnolia grandiflora, 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 region, as well for its considerable growth (trunks 

 40-50 feet high, and more than 2 feet thick), as for its magnificent, 

 fragrant blooms, and its continually green appearance. 



Gordonia Lasianthus. Alcea floridana, Catesb. I, 44, here called 

 Gardenia commonly holds excellently well. 



Hopea tinctoria. Arbor lauri folio. Cat. I. 54. Keeps its leaves 

 green, but somewhat hanging, and shifts them only at the blooming 

 season. The black cattle in the woods browse most on the leaves and 



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