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The third has the branches bent or hanging down : the petioles 

 waving on the edge : the leaves thick, like those of the tenth sort, 

 smooth, serrulate with very small teeth: the germ terminating, awl- 

 shaped, ventricose at the base. It is a native of North America, 

 flowering here in July. 



The fourth species has the lowest leaves obovate; the next 

 ovate; the upper ones lanceolate. It is a native of North America. 

 It flowers in June. 



The fifth is a native of North America. It flowers in May and 

 June. 



The sixth species has the leaves petioled, broad-lanceolate, 

 sharpish, without any raised veins: the petioles decurrent along the 

 back, whence the twigs are ancipital: the corymb short: the stem 

 twelve or fourteen feet high, sending out branches from the bottom 

 to the top: the leaves about an inch long, and more than half an 

 inch broad, of a light green colour, opposite, on short footstalks: the 

 peduncles axillary, very short, supporting small umbels of white 

 flowers, which appear in July. It is a native of South Carolina. 



The seventh has a strong stem, covered with a brown smooth 

 bark, and rising to the height of ten or twelve feet, sending out 

 woody branches on every side the whole length, which have a 

 smooth purplish bark: the leaves opposite, five inches long and two 

 and a half broad, smooth and of a lucid green above, veined and of 

 a light green beneath, entire at the edges, (indistinctly notched,) and 

 rounded at both ends; of the same thickness with those of the 

 Broad-leaved Laurustinus: the flowers are produced in large umbels 

 (cymes) at the end of the branches, are in shape and colour like 

 those of the common Lauruslinus, but smaller; and the stamens are 

 much larger than the corolla: they appear in July, and are suc- 

 ceeded by roundish berries, which, when ripe, are black. It is a 

 native of America, flowering in May and June. 



There are varieties with deciduous and evergreen leaves. 



The eighth species rises with a woody stalk ten or twelve feet 

 high, covered with a brown bark, and branching its whole length: 

 the branches, when young, are covered with a smooth purple bark: 



