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flowers mewed to greater advantage ; their 

 beautiful pale red colour had a very fine ef- 

 fect ; and they fat fo clofe that the branches 

 were entirely clad with them. The other 

 fruit-trees were not yet in flower ; however 

 the apple-blofToms began to appear. 



The Englijh and the Swedes of America 

 give the name of Currants -f to a fhrub 

 which grows in wet ground, and near 

 fwamps, and which was now in blorTom; 

 its flowers are white, have a very agreeable 

 fragrancy, and grow in oblong bunches; 

 the fruit is very good eating, when it is 

 ripe ; the Jlyle (Stylus) is thread- fhaped 

 (filiformis), and /horter than the Stamina ; 

 it is divided in the middle, into five parts, 

 or Stigmata. Dr. Linnaus calls it Cra- 

 tcegus *, and Dr. Gronovius calls it a Me/- 

 pilus %. 



April the 2 2d. The Swedes give the 

 name of Whipperiwill, and the Engliflo 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 diftinguifhed from what is called 

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



* Crataegus tomentofa, Linn. Spec. PI. p. 682. 



\ Me/pi/us inermis, foliis ouato-oblongi;, ferratis, fubtvi 

 fomei'tojis. Gronov. Fl. Virgin. 55. 



