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*Tah. 115. fol. i. It is alfo well 

 figured in Mr. Catejby\ Hiftory of 

 Carolina, 



This Shrub is ^Native of Virginia 

 and Carolina, where it grows in 

 moift Places, and near the Sides of 

 Rivulets, rifmg to the Height of 

 twelve or fourteen Feet : the Leaves 

 are in Shape like thofeof the Alder- 

 tree ; but are fmaller : thefe are 

 placed alternately upon the Branches : 

 the Flowers are produced at the Ex- 

 tremity of the Branches, in clofe 

 Spikes : they are compofed of five 

 Leaves, are white, and full of Sta- 

 mina : thefe are produced in July. 



This is hardy enough to bear the 

 open Air of England, and is one of 

 the moll beautiful Shrubs at the Sea- 

 fon of its flowering ; which is very 

 little later than in its native Country, 

 being commonly in Flower here by 

 the Latter-end of July : and as the 

 Spikes of Flowers are produced up- 

 on molt of the Shoots, the whole 

 Shrub appears covered with Flowers. 

 This mull have a moift Situation, 

 otherwife it will not thrive ; and if 

 it is meltered by other Trees, at a 

 little Diftance, it will thrive the 

 better. It is propagated by Layers ; 

 but they are generally two Years be- 

 fore they get Root, fo that, at pre- 

 fent, it is very rare in England. The 

 fined Shrubs of this Kind, which I 

 have yet feen, are in the curious 

 Gardens of his Grace the Duke of 

 Argyll, at Whitton near Hounfow, 

 where they thrive as well as in their 

 native Country. Thefe do not per- 

 fect their Seeds in this Country ; 

 and the Seeds which have been 

 brought from America, have very 

 rarely fucceeded ; being light and 

 chaffy, they foon lofe their growing 

 Quality : but if the Shrub can be 

 once propagated, fo as to become 

 plenty in England, it will be an ad- 

 ditional Beauty to the Gardens, as 



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it flowers at aSeafon when few other 

 Sorts are in Beauty. 



CLIFFORTIA. 



The Characters are ; 



It is Male and Female in different 

 Plants: the Flowers of the Male 

 Plants have a three-lea^P d Empale- 

 ment, but no Petals : the Stamina, 

 which are very numerous, occupy the 

 whole Empalement : the Female Flow- 

 ers ha<ve no Petals, but a three- leaved 

 Empalement ; in the middle of which 

 the Point al is fituated, fupporting tw9 

 Styles, and afterward becomes an ob- 

 long Capfule, opening in two Cells 9 

 each having a fixgle taper Seed. 

 The Species are ; 



I. Cl IF fort 1 a foliis dentatzf, 

 mas. Lin. Hort. Cliff. Male Clif- 

 fortia, with indented Leaves. This 

 Plant has been known by the Title 

 of Camphor at a Capenfs, eryngii folio: 

 as alio that of Arbiifcida Afra, foliQ 

 ilicis, caulem amplexo, rigido. 



2. Cliffortia foliis lanceolatis in* 

 tegerrimis, fcemina. Lin. Hort. Cliff* 

 Female Cliffortia, with intire Leaves- 



3. Cliffortia foliis tcrnatis, pi- 

 lofts, fesmina. Lin. Hort. Cliff. Fe- 

 male Cliffortia, with narrow hairy 

 Leaves. 



4 . Cliffortia foliis ternatis fa- 

 lido intermedia tridentato. Flor. Leyd» 

 Three-leav'd Cliffortia, with the mid- 

 dle Leaf divided into three Parts. 



The hrlt Sort has been long an 

 Inhabitant in feveral curious Gar- 

 dens in England. This Plant is 2 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 where alfo moft of the other Sorts 

 are fuppofed to grow : but thefe are 

 at prefent very rare in England: 

 they are all of them preferved in 

 Green-houfes'in Winter, and placed 

 abroad in Summer, with other Exo- 

 tic Plants of the fame Country, and 

 make an agreeable Variety when 

 they are intermixed. The firft Sort 

 is fo hardy as to live in the open 



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