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IQ. Arbor in aqua nafcens, foliis latis acuminatis dentatis, fructu eleagnt 
majore. 
The Water ro 
This tree has ufually a large trunk, efpecially near the ground, and grows very tall: the 
leaves are broad and irregularly notched or indented ; from the fides of the branches {hoot forth 
its flowers on foot-ftalks three inches long, confifting of feveral {mall narrow greenifh petala on 
the top of an oval body (which is the rudiment of the fruit) at the bottom of which its perian- 
thium divides into four. The fruit when full grown is in fize, fhape, and colour like a {mall 
Spanith olive, containing one hard channelled ftone more pointed at one end. There is fome- 
what fingular and remarkable in the vegetation of this ftone; for when the young plant is 
ready to burft from its cell, nature follows not her ufual method of difcharging the kernel by 
{plitting the ftone in two, but the germin pufhes out a little piece of the flat fide of the thell; 
and through the hole fo made the infant plant expands, and fhoots a tap-root direétly down- 
wards. The grain of the wood is white, foft, and fpongy; the roots are much more {o, ap- 
proaching nearly to the confiftence of cork, and are ufed in Carolina for the fame purpofes as 
cork, to ftop gourds and bottles. Thefe trees always grow in wet places, and ufually in the 
fhallow parts of rivers. The feeds are very apt to grow, if planted before May ; after they 
are come up, water them often, by omitting which they are as apt to mifcarry : the fucceeding 
fummer'the length of their tap-roots enables them to find moifture enough without the trouble 
of giving them water, except the weather proves exceflive dry. This ftately and fingular tree _ 
deferves well to be propagated, not only for its uncommon appearance, but as it may probably 7 
have many ufeful propetties, befides what are already confpicuous ; particularly that of growing 
in the water, there being very few trees that will endure to live fo deep in that element. 
20. Nux Fuglans alba V: irgintenfis. 
The Hiccory-tree. 
This is ufually a tall tree, and often grows to a large bulk, the body being from two to three 
feet diameter: the leaves are ferrated, and narrower and fharper-pointed than thofe of our 
walnut. In Odober, at which time the nuts are ripe, the outer fhell opens and divides in 
quarters, difclofing the nut, the fhell of which is snack and not eafy to break but with a 
hammer : 
