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Chionanthus virginica, Virginian Snow-drop Tree • 



This fhrub grows naturally in feveral places in 

 North America, in a moift foil ; rifing to the height 

 of fifteen or twenty feet, fpreading into many branch- 

 es, covered with a light coloured bark. The leaves 

 are large, oblong and entire, placed nearly oppofite. 

 The flowers are produced towards the extremity of 

 the ftioots of the former year, upon Ihort, leafFy, 

 common footftalks; at the bofom of the leaves of 

 which, the proper footftalks come out, and are divid- 

 ed for the moft part into three parts, but often more ; 

 each fuftaining one fmall flower, with four very long, 

 narrow, white petals ; which, when fully grown, make 

 a beautiful appearance : thefe are fucceeded by oval 

 berries, of a livid blackifli colour when ripe, each 

 containing one hard, oblong, pointed feed. The 

 bark of the root ot this flirub, bruifed and applied 

 to frefli wounds, is accounted by the natives a fpeci- 

 fic, in healing them without fuppuration. 



C L E T H R A. 



C L £ T H R A* 

 Clafs lo. Order i. Decandria Monogynia* 



THE Empakment is of one leaf, five-parted; the leaves are 

 ovate, concave, creft and permanent. 

 The Corolla confifts of five petals, oblong, broader without, a 



little fpreading, and longer than the caiyx. 

 The Filaments are ten, awl-lhaped, and the length of the corol- 

 la. The Anther(B oblong-ereft, gaping at the apex. 

 The Germen is roundilli. The Style is thread*form, ered:, per- 

 manent, and increafing. The Stigma is three-cleft. 

 The Seed-veJJel is a capfule, roundilli, covered with the ealyx, 



three-cell'd and three-valv'd. 

 The Seeds are many and angled. 



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