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4.5. Arbor lauri folio, floribus ex foliorum, alis pentapetalis, pluribus flami- 
nibus donatis. 
The Root. 
It has a flender ftem, and grows ufually about eight or ten feet high: its leaves are in fhape 
like thofe of a pear, growing alternately on foot-ftalks of an inch long; from ‘between which 
proceed fmall whitifh flowers, confifting of five petals; in the middle whereof fhoot forth 
many {mall ftamina headed with yellow apices. The roots of this plant are made ufe_of in 
decoéctions, and are efteemed ftomachic, and a cleanfer of the blood: the fruit I have not 
feen. It grows in moift fhady woods in the lower parts of Carolina. It fends forth its blof- 
foms in February ; and is for its virtues, by way of eminence, called THz Root. 
(46. Fratex foliis ferratis, floribus longioribus fpicatis [ubviridibus capfula 
| | _ pentagona, 
_ ‘This fhrub is ufually flender in the main ftem, fpreading into many pliant branches, to the 
height of about ten feet: its leaves are fet alternately, having the edges finely ferrated: the 
flowers are tubulous, of a greenifh-white, with a pointel reaching a little above the verge of the 
cup; thefe flowers are fucceeded by round berries, which when ripe open, and divide into five 
‘ feGtions, inclofing many fmall-feeds. They grow in moift places in Carolina and Virginia. 
47. Bignonia urucu foliis, flore fordide albo, intus maculis purpureis & 
luteis afperfo, filiqua longifima &F anguflifima. 
The Catalpa-tree. 
_ This tree ufwally rifes about twenty feet and fpreads much; the bark is fmooth, the wood 
foft and fpongy, the leaves fhaped like thofe of the lilac, but much larger, fome being ten 
inches over, and of a bright green fattin hue. About the beginning of Auguft it produces 
large bunches of tubulous white flowers, compofed of one petal divided into four lips: the 
infide of every flower is powdered as it were with purple fpecks, through which run two- 
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