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The fruit is Kkewife produced in the fame manner, 

 but is fmaller, of a red colour, and an extremely 

 acid tafle. 



And alfo to the Genus Prunus, belongs^ 



LAURO-CERASUS. 



The LAUREL-TREE. 



Of which we have but one Species, viz. 



Prunus-Lauro-Cerasus ferratifolia. Carolinian 

 Evergreen Bay-tree* 



This is a beautiful evergreen fhrub, but of fmall 

 growth ; fpreading with lateral branches, on every 

 fide and covered with a brown bark. The leaves 

 are fpear-lhaped, above two inches long and three 

 quarters of an inch or more in breadth, with a few 

 fliarp ferratures on their edges, (landing alternately 

 on very fliort footftalks, of a thick confiftence, and 

 fhining green colour, continuing their verdure all 

 the year. The flowers are generally very numerous, 

 perfectly white, and are fucceeded by roundifh fruit 

 of the fize of a middling cherry, of a black colour 

 when ripe. This is a native of South Carolina, and 

 other ioulhern States. 



P T E L E A. 



P T E L E A. 

 Clafs 4. Order i. Tetrandria Monogynia. 



nPHE Empakment is five-parted, acute, and fmall. 



The Corolla has four petals, ovate-lanced, plane, fpread- 

 ing, larger than the calyx, and coriaceous. 



The 



