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42. Acacia, abrue foliis, triacanthos capfula ovali, umicum femen claudente. 
a= Water Acacia. | 
This tree {preads and grows to a large fize: the leaves are winged and compofed of many 
frac. pointed lobes, like moft others of its genus. The fruit is fomewhat like a bean, con- 
tained in an oval capfula, fix of which commonly grow together in a bunch: many very large 
fharp. thorns are fet on its branches and larger limbs. This tree I never faw but at one place in 
Carolina, Pore in fhallow water, near the iprings of paca river; and no doubt in other 
places. 
43. Frutex lauri longiore folio. 
-This fhrub is a native of Virginia, and grows in wet fwamps and ftanding waters; it rifes 
from the ground with many ftems to the height of eight or ten feet, which are of a reddifh 
colour. The leaves are placed alternately an inch from one another, and are in fhape like 
thofe of a bay, ftiff and fhining; at the pedicles of the leaves grow the flowers, which are 
tubulous, of a pale red colour, and fet on ftalks three inches long; thefe flowers are fucceeded ‘ 
y and 
by {mall conic feed-veflels about the fize of large peas, that when ripe ve in two part: 
difplay many {mall feeds. It retains its leaves, all the winter. oes ee 
44. Pratex, padi foliis non ferratis, floribus monopetalis altis, he i fais 
mibus, fruttu craffo tetragono. 
The trunk of this thrub is Bend ; eanibhenes two or three flemis rife from the fame root to 
the height ufually of ten feet. The leaves are in fhape like thofe of a pear. In February and 
March come white flowers in form of a bell, hanging ufually two and three together, from — 
the fides of the branches, on foot-ftalks an inch long: from the middle of the flower four 
ftamina fhoot forth, with a ftilus extending half an inch beyond them of a reddith colour; 
thefe flowers are fucceeded by oblong quadrangular feed-veffels pointed at the ends. 
45. Arbor 
