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24. Amelanchior Virginiana, lauro cerafi folio. 
The F ringe-tree. 
On the banks of rivulets and running Aside this fhrub is moft frequently fof it grows 
from fix to ten feet high, ufually with a crooked, irregular, {mall ftem. Its leaves are of a light 
green, and fhaped like thofe of the orange: in May it produces bunches of white flowers, 
hanging on branched foot-ftalks of half an inch long; each flower has four narrow thin petals 
about two inches long; to thefe fucceed round dark-blue berries of the fize of a fmall olive: 
the berries being fucculent are often rotted in their paflage, and lofe their vegetative faculty ; 
but they will increafe by laying down their branches. It is a very hardy plant, and makes an 
~ agreeable appearance, efpecially while in bloffom. 
i oxen 25 Z Agrifolium Carolinenfe, foliis dentatis baccis rubris. 
| | The Dahoon Holly. 
This Holly grows erect fixteen or twenty feet high; the branches fhooting ftraighter and are 
of quicker growth than the common kind: the leaves are longer, of a brighter green, and 
more pliant; not prickly, but ferrated only: the berries are red, growing in large thick cluf 
ters. This plant is not common in Carolina; it grows particularly at Colonel Buxt’s plantation 
on oe river, in a bog much frequented by alligators. The berries, when fown, require as 
- much time before they appear above ground, as the common holly: their branches being laid, 
will alfo take root. They are fomewhat: tender, and require a little protection in rigid 
=< 26. Caffena vera Floridanorum, arbufcula baccifera Alaterni facie, folis 
oes. alternatim fi itis, tetrapyrene. 
The ‘Yapon. 
: This fhrub eae rifes from the ground with feveral ftems to the height of twelve feet, 
| Shooting into many upright, flender, ftiff branches covered with a whitifh, fmooth bark, and 
= & salternately with fmall ever-green ferrated leaves, refembling thofe of the Alaternus: its 
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