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36. Fafininum luteum odoratum Virginianum, f{candens, Semper VITENS. 
The Yellow Jeffamin, 
This plant grows ufually in moift places; its branches being fupported by other trees and 
fhrubs, on. which it climbs. The leaves grow oppofite to each other from the joints of the 
ftalks, whence likewife fhoot forth yellow tubulous flowers, the verges whereof are notched or 
divided into five fections. The feeds are flat and half-winged, containing an oblong pointed 
-capfula which, when they are ripe, fplits up to the flalk, and difcharges them. _ 
The flowers {mell like thofe of the wall-flower, and diffu their fmell to a ee diftance. 
Thefe plants are {carce in Virginia, but are plentiful in Carolina, 
57. Hamamelis. 
The ufual height of this plant is ten or twelve feet: they appear like nut-trees at a little 
diftance; their leaves refembling thofe of the nut, or rather thofe of the alder-tree, The flower 
is a pale yellow, confifting of a triangular involucrum, and a calix divided by four fegments, 
from which proceed four flender petals about two inches long: it has alfo four ftamina and a 
ftilus hardly to be difcerned with the naked eye, It flowers at Carolina in O&ober, and after — 
continuing long in bloflom, fets its fruit for the next fummer. The feed-veffel confifts of a 
double capfula, which when ripe fplits half open, and. difclofes two hard black fhining feeds, 
having a white fpot at their bigger ends; each iced lies in.its diftiné cell, feparated by a thin 
membrane, and they are fometimes tricapfular. ? ae 
A plant of this kind was firft fent me from Virginia in the year 17435 it arrived at Chrift- 
mas, and was then full of bloffoms, as it has annually been about the fame time ever fince: 
it is a hardy fhrub, and is proof againft the fevereft cold. The feeds may be raifed:in the open 
= ground, but will lay two winters thercin before = pies and are Jong, before: they flrike 
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