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the following description from Michaux : 

 "The leaves are evergreen, from three to six 

 inches long, alternate, oval, acuminate, slightly 

 toothed, and smooth and shining on the upper 

 surface. The flowers are more than an inch 

 broad, white and sweet-scented. They begin 

 to appear about the middle of July, and bloom 

 in succession during two or three months. 

 This tree possesses the agreeable singularity 

 of blooming when only three or four feet 

 high. From twenty -five to thirty feet of its 

 trunk is perfectly straight. The small diverg- 

 ency of its branches near the trunk, give it 

 a regular pyramidal form; but as they ascend 

 they spread more loosely, like other trees of 

 the forest." " The seed germinate succesfully 

 in wet places among sphagnum moss." 



2. GORDONIA PUBESCENS, Willdenow. 

 Leaves lanceolate, slightly downy and serrate. 

 Flowers sessile, capsule round. Franklinia 

 of Marshal Franklin-tree. Banks of the 

 Altahama, Georgia. 



In the Bartram garden this tree grows to 

 about thirty feet high, and has a diameter of 

 from nine to twelve inches. The finest speci- 

 men lately blew off in a gale. It has a very 



