cm I 
_ufes. They’ grow ufually in moift places tee and Carolina; in the firft of which 
countries they are. called Black Gum-trees.. © 10: b20% “ 
7 phe berries: se in the i aeons two and bicopieass + sal years before the’ {prout. 
28. ‘Laurus Carolinenfi is, fohiis acuminatis, baccis ceruleis, pediculis longis 
“Se rubris infidentibus. 
The Red Bay. 
“The “at WY nia tree are in fhape like thofe of the common bay, and of an aromatic {cent pee 
the berries when tipe. are blue, growing two and fometimes three together, on foot-ftalks two. 
or three inches long, of a red colour, as is the calix or cup of the fruit; which is indented. 
t the edges. .Thefe trees are not very common in Virginia, except in fome places near. the 
fea ; in. Carolina they are every where feen, particularly in low fwampy lands: in general they 
arrive but. to. the fize of fmall trees and fhrubs ; though in fome iflands, and_ particular places. 
>y grow to large and. ftraight-bodied trees. The wood is fine-grained, and of 
exc al ™ | ufe ra cabinets, &c.. I have feen fome of this wood that has refembled watered fattin,. 
anak whole grain has exceeded in beauty the grain of molt woods I ever faw. ‘This is a green- 
/plant, it being incapable of enduring the cold of England, 
are _Ligifirem Lauri folio, frultu violaceo. 
: The ‘Purple-berried Bay. 
This tree grows ufually fixteen feet high ; the trunk is from fix to eight inches diameter: _ 
the leaves are very {mooth, and of a lighter green than the common bay-tree ;_ but i in their 
manner of growing refemble the leaves of that tree. In March, {pikes fhoot forth from between. 
_ the leaves two or three inches in length, producing tetrapetalous, very fmall, white flowers that 
grow oppofite to each other on foot-ftalks half an inch long: the berries are globular, about 
the fize of a very large pea, and covered with a thin purple-coloured fkin, inclofing a kernel, 
hic 7 . divides i in the middle. I never faw thefe trees growing but near the little town of Dor- 
chefter on Afhley_ river. They may be increafed by fowing their berries, and alfo by laying, - 
gh they are fomewhat tender, and will not endure the open air without being planted ir in a 
30. Cornus 
