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to the fouth, neither he nor MefTrs. Clayton 

 and Mitchel ever found it, though the lat- 

 ter gentlemen have made accurate obferva- 

 tions in Virginia and part of Maryland. 

 And from his own experience he knew, 

 that it did not grow in the northerly parts. 

 I have never found it more than fifteen 

 min. north of forty-three deg. The time 

 of the year when it comes up in Pen/ylvania, 

 is fo late, that its feed has but jufl time 

 fufficient to ripen in, and it therefore feems 

 unlikely, that it can fucceed further north. 

 Mr. Bartram was the firfl who difcovered 

 it, and fent it over into Europe. Mr. Juf- 

 jieu during his flay at London, and Dr. 

 Linnaeus afterwards, called it Collinfonia, from 

 the celebrated Mr. Peter Collinfon, a mer- 

 chant in.London, and fellow of the Engli/h 

 and Swedijh Royal Societies. He well de- 

 ferved the honour of having a plant called 

 after his name, for there are few people 

 that have promoted natural hiftory and all 

 ufeful fciences with a zeal like his ; or that 

 have done as much as he towards collecting, 

 cultivating, and making known all forts of 

 plants. The Collinfonia has a peculiar fcent, 

 which is agreeable, but very flrong. It al- 

 ways gave me a pretty violent head-ach 

 whenever I parTed by a place where it flood 

 in plenty, and efpecially when it was in 



flower. 



