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54. Philadeiphus flore albo majore inodbro. 
This is a finall tree, rifing to the height ‘of about fixteer fect or upwards, with a flender 
trunk : the wood is hard and brittle. From the larger upright ftalks grow fmaller ones hori- 
zontally and oppofite to each other, on which are placed the leaves by pairs: at the ends of 
thefe {maller ftalks come forth the flowers, growing ufually two and three together on foot- 
ftalks of an inch long ; ; thefe flowers are compofed of four white petals, adorned in the middle 
with a tuft of thrummy ftamina and a triple ftilus, and crowned with yellow apices. Thefe 
flowers are fucceeded by roundifh mucronated capfula, containing many {mall feeds in cells 
' divided by thin membranes. | 
Thefe trees grow near the fources of rivers in Carolina, aad have not been introduced to 
England. 
55. Ciftus Virginiana, flore &S periclymini. 
The Upright Honey-fuckle. 
This plant rifes ufually with two or three ftiff ftraight {tems, which are {mall, except w ‘here : 
the foil is very moift and rich, where they grow to the fize of a walking-cane, and twelve or 
fixteen feet high, branching into many fmaller ftalks, with leaves alternately placed: at the. 
ends of the ftalks are produced bunches of flowers refembling our common honey-fuckle, a 
a blufh-red colour and fragrant {mell. 
 'Thefe flowers are fucceeded by long pointed capfule, containing innumerable very {mall 
feeds in cells divided by thin membranes. 7 
It is a native of Virginia and Carolina, but will endure our climate in the open air, having 
_ for many years paft produced its beautiful and fragrant blofloms at the gardens of Mr. Peter 
Coxtinson at Peckham, and in fome other places. The raifing thefe plants from feeds has 
been often attempted without faccels ; therefore in order to procure fome, let them be planted 
from out of the woods into a cafe or tub, with as much earth as will ftick to their roots: 
water them well in their paflage. 
A warm afpect, with a loamy, ftrong, moift foil, is sha they like the beft. The white 
Kind is moft fragrant, and grows the talleft. 
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