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flowers fhewed to greater advantage ; their 

 beautiful pale red colour had a very fine ef- 

 fect ; and they fat fo dole that the branches 

 were entirely clad with them. The other 

 fruit-trees were not yet in flower ; however 

 the apple-bloflbms began to appear. 



The EngliJJo and the Swedes of America 

 give the name of Currants -\ to a fhrub 

 which grows in wet ground, and near 

 fwamps, and which was now in blofiom; 

 its flowers are white, have a very agreeable 

 fragrancy, and grow in oblong bunches - r 

 the fruit is very good eating, when it is 

 ripe ; the Jiyk (Stylus) is thread- fhaped 

 (fiiiformis), and fhorter than the Stamina -, 

 it is divided in the middle, into five parts* 

 or Stigmata. Dr. Linnaeus calls it Cra- 

 taegus *i and Dr. Gronovius calls it a Mef- 

 pilus %. 



^ April the 22d. The Swedes give the 

 name of IVhipperiwill, and the Englifo that 

 of Whip-poor-will, to a kind of nocturnal 

 bird, whofe voice is heard in North Ame- 

 rica, almoft throughout the whole night. 

 Catejby and Edwards both have defcribed 



K 4 and 



f It muft be carefully diflinguilhed from what is called 

 Currants, in England, which is the Ribes rubrum. F. 



* Crataegus foment ofa, Linn. Spec. PI. p. 682. 



% Mefpilus inermis, foliis ovato-oblongis, ferratis, fubtu* 

 fomentojis. Gronov. Fl. Virgin. 55, 



