360 November 1748. 



November the 27th. The American ever- 

 greens are 



1. Ilex Aqiiifolium, holly. 



2. Kalmia latifolia, the ipoon tree. 



3 . Kalmia angufiifolia, another fpecies of it. 



4. Magnolia glauca, the beaver tree. 

 The young trees of this kind only keep 

 their leaves, the others drop them. 



5. Vif cum album, ormifletoe; this com- 

 monly grows upon the Nyjfa aquatica, or 

 tupelo tree, upon the Liquidambar jiyraci- 



fiua, or fweet gum tree, the oak and lime 

 tree, fo that their whole fummits were fre- 

 quently quite green in winter. 



6. Myrica cerifera, or the candleberry 

 tree ; of this however only fome of the 

 youngeft flirubs preferve fome leaves, but 

 moft of them had already loft them. 



7. Pinus Abies, the pine. 



8. Pinus fylvejirisy the fir. 



9. Cupreous thyoides, the white cedar. 



10. 'JnniperusVirginiana, the red cedar. 

 Several oaks and other trees dropt 



their leaves here in winter, which however 

 keep them ever green, a little more to the 

 fouth, and in Carolina. 



November the 30th. It has been ob- 

 ferved, that the Europea?is in North Ame- 

 rica, whether they were born in Sweden, 



England, 



