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OBSERVATIONS 
PHYSICAL anp LITERARY. 
- ARTICLE I, 
The Defcription of a new Plant; by Dr 
_ ALEXANDER Garpen, Phyfician at 
Charlefton zm South Carolina. 
OcTOR GaRDEN writes Dr Whytt, 
that, in fummer 1754, he met, about 
a mile from the town of New-York in . 
New England, with a plant, which, at firft, 
he took to be a hypericum, but, on exami- 
ning it, found it different: Upon which 
_hetook down its charadters, and fent them, 
 fome days after, to Mifs Jenny Colden, 
(daughter to the Honourable Caldwalla- 
der Colden), a very ingenious young lady 
_ and curious botanift. In return to this, 
 Mifs Colden fent Dr Garden the charac. 
ters of a plant which proves to be the fame: 
Tt is N° 163. of her collection; and was 
firft found by her, fummer 1753. Ufing 
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