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. Ani folia Americana ferrata, ‘Minibus pentapetals albis, in Spicam 
difpofitis. 
=. This feb grows in moift places, and fometimes in water, from which it rifes with many 
flender ftems to the height of ten or fourteen feet: the leaves are fomewhat rough, placed 
alternately, ferrated, and in fhape not unlike thofe of the white thorn. In July, there fhoots 
from the ends of the branches fpikes of white flowers four or five’ inches long; each flower 
confifts of five petals and a tuft of fmall flamina. The flowers are thick-fet on foot-ftalks a 
quarter of an inch long, and are {ucceeded by fmall, oval, pointed capfulz, containing many 
chaffy feeds. It cadures the greateft cold of our winters; increafes by laying, and fometimes 
produces fuckers, 
82. Frutex Virginianus trifolius ulini famaris. 
This tree ufually grows to the height of twelve or fourteen feet, with a trunk as big as one’s 
leg, having a greenifh fmooth bark. Its leaves are trifoliate, and fet on long foot-ftalks; the 
flowers grow in fpiked bunches, many of them together, each flower having four white petals, 
and are fucceeded by clufters of feeds hanging feparately by fhort pedicles, and covered with 
flat thin capfule, . _ They may. be increafed by laying, but are — in ftriking root. 
68 :: Steuartia. 
This fhrub rifes from the ground with fevetal fiff inflexible ftems to an ordinary height : 
the leaves are ferrated’ and’ grow alternately, refembling thofe of the Syringa. The flower 
refembles that of a fingle rofe, confifting of five white concave petals, with a | pointel rifing 
_ from a pale green ovarium, furrounded by many purple ftamina with bluifh apices. It is re- 
markable, that one particular petal in every flower is ftained with a faint greenifh yellow. The 
calix is divided into five fegments; the capfula has a hairy roughnefs on the outfide, is of a 
conic form, and when ripe fplits open, and difclofes five membranous fhells, every one of which 
contains a fingle oblong brown fhining feed. I received a plant of it from Virginia in full 
blofiom. _ The wood is fo very hard, that it feems to be not increafible by laying. : 
84. Palma 
