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58. Frutex corni folis conjugatis; floribus inftar anemones ftellate, petals 
crafis, rigidis, colore fordidé rubente; cortice aromatico. 
This fhrub grows about ten or twelve feet high; the leaves are fet oppofite to each other ; : 
the flowers refemble in form thofe of the ftar-anemony, . compofed of many ftiff copper~ 
coloured petals, inclofing a tuft of fhort yellow ftamina. The fruit of this plant appeared as 
is here reprefented ; but being unripe when difcovered, no more could be known of it: the 
bark is very aromatic. -'Thefe trees grow in the remote and hilly parts of Carolina in fprings 
of. rivers. It is a ver ry hardy plant, and yields a fucceflion of flowers the greater part of the 
fummer, This plant may be increafed by layers, 
*co. The Chefnut-tree, 
The chefnut-trees in America are in appearance fo very like thofe of Europe, that little of 
no difference can be difcerned between them, except that the trees and nuts of the American 
chefnuts are neither fo large and fair as thofe of Europe, but the nuts are much fweeter, They 
abound moft in the hilly parts of the country, particularly on the Apalachian mountains, where’ 
they are more numerous than ae aches: kind es rege | bio 
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*60. Platanus Occidentalis. 
The Weftern Plane-tree, 
This tree is become a denifon of England, and in fome foils propagates its offspring by 
- feeds and fuckers, as our afhes and elms do: they grow to be lofty and ftately trees; theig 
leaves are very broad,: of a pleafant | green, and have a white down on their back fides, The 
{eed-veffels are globular, hanging fingle and pendent: the trunks are large; the bark fmooth, 
| glofiy, and fo variegated with white, green, &c, that they produce a fing effect amongft 
the other trees, 
#61, Populus 
