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full green, on their upper furface, and of a folid 

 confiftence. The fruit ot berries are nearly oval, 

 of the fize of a fparrow's egg, of a beautiful blu- 

 ifli purple, and covered with a nebula or gloom. 



P H I L A D E L P H U S. 



SYRINGA, or MOCK-ORANGE. 



Clafs 12. Order i. Icofandria Moaogynkv 



HTHE Empalement is one leaved, four parted, iTiarp pointed, 

 ^ and permanent. 

 * ifhe Corolla has four petals, rolmdifh, plane, large and fpread- 

 ing. 



The Filaments are twenty, awl-lliaped and the length of the 

 calyx. The Anthercs are ere£l and four furrowed. 



The Germen is beneath. The St^le is thread form and four- 

 parted. The ^ff^wifli- are fimple. 



The Seed'VejJel is a capfule, oval, iTiarp-poihted; patt fiirj*6tilid- 

 -ed by the calyx, with four cells, and four valves. 



The Seeds are numerous, oblong and fmall. 



We have^ with us^ but one Species, viz. 



PniLADELPHUs inodoriis, Carolinian S^^ent- 

 hjs Syringa. 



This is faid to grovy naturally in Carolina; riling 

 "with a (hrubby ftalk to the height of tv/elve or fifteen 

 feet, fending out oppofite branches, furniflied with 

 fmooth, entire leaves, fliaped like thofe of the Pear 

 tree, but ftanding oppofite upon pretty long foot- 

 ftalks. The flowers are pretty large and have large 

 * empalements of four acute-pointed leaves, and four 

 white, oval, fpreading petals, and a great number 

 of ftamina with yellow fummits. This is impatient 

 of much cold. 



PINIJS. 



