Bm cae 
13. Quercus (forte) Marilandica, folio trifido ad faffafras accedente. 
"The Black Oak. 
This oak ufually grows on the pooreft land, and is but a {mall tree: the colour of its bark 
is black; the grain is coarfe, but durable under water, and is fometimes made ufe of for 
houfe-work. It bears good maft for hogs; and fome of this kind produce leaves at leaft ten 
inches wide. Dee 
: 14. Cupreffus Americana, 
The Cyprefs of America. 
The cyprefs is (except the tulip-tree) the talleft and largeft of all the trees this part of the — 
world produces; near the ground fome of them meafure thirty feet in circumference: they are 
propagated by feeds only; which are inclofed in a round feed-veffel in the manner of the 
: European cyprefs, and contain a balfamic confiftence of a fragrant {mell. The timber of this 
_ tree is excellent, and particularly for covering houfes, being light, of a free grain, and refifting 
the injuries of the weather better than any other made ufe of for this purpofe. It is an aquatic, 
and ufually grows froth one to fix feet deep in water; which fecure fituation and the fweet- 
nefs of the feeds invite great numbers of different birds to breed and feed in its lofty branches. 
No American tree feems to affect the foil and climate of England more than this: its cones 
_ being replete with turpentine, the feeds are fo well prelerved in their paflage, that they rarely 
~ fail of growing, though fent in any manner. 
EBs iemanonlan: odehors feu Styraciflaa, aceris folio, frubte tribuloide, 
i.e. Pericarpio orbiculari ex quam plurimis apicibus coagmentato, femen recondens. 
The Sweet Gum-tree, 
“The = of this tree is commonly two feet Speer. ftraight and free from branches to 
the height of fifteen or twenty feet; from which the branches {pread, and rife in a conic form 
to the height of forty feet and upward from the ground. The leaves are five-pointed, being 
Seided into fo apa deep icctions, and are fet on flender pedicles: in February, before the 
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