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3. AzALE \ viftofa paluftris. Swamp Azalea, 



This is a Variety of the white kind, growing na- 

 turally in wet low ground. It is of lower growth, 

 with leaves rough and clammy at their firft appear- 

 ance. The flowers are white, but not fo fweet as the 

 former. There is alfo fome other varieties differing 

 fomewhat in the difpofition or appearance of their 

 flowers, &c. 



BACCHARiS. 



PLOWMAN^s SPIKENARD. 



Clafs 19. Order 2. Syngenefia Polygamia 

 Super flu a. 



THE Common Caly^ is cylindrical, and imbricated: the Scales 

 linear and acute. 

 The Compound Corolla, is equal with Plorets Hermaphrodite and 

 » Female mixed. 



The Froper of the hermaphrodite is funnel-form and five cleft, 



„ of the female fcarce manifeft, or almoft none. 



The Filaments of the hermaphrodite are five, capillary and very 



fmall. The Jntherce cylindrical and tubulous. 

 The Gernien of the hermaphrodite is ovate. The Style filiform 



and the length of the flower. The Stigma is bifid or two 



cleft. 



Of the female very like the hermaphrodite. 

 The Seed'VejJel none, but the calyx changed. 

 The Seeds of the hermaphrodite and female much alike, folita- 



ry, very lliort, and oblong. The Pappus fimple. 

 The Receptacle is naked. 



T/je Species are^ 



Baggharis halimifolia. Virginian Ground/el 

 Tree. 



It rifes to the height of fix or eight feet, fending 

 out many erect branches^ garnifhed with leaves 



which 



