NORTH AMERICA. 
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ingly tall ftraight Pines (Pinus Paluflris) that flood 
at a confiderable diftance from each other, through 
which appeared at N. W. an almofl unlimited plain 
of grafly favannas, embellifhed with a chain of mal- 
low ponds, as far as the fight could reach. Here 
is a fpecies of Magnolia that alTociates with the 
Gordonia lafianthus ; it is a tali tree, fixty or eighty 
feet in heighth ; the trunk ftraight ; its head termi- 
nating in the form of a (harp cone ; the leaves are 
oblong, lanceolate, of a fine deep green, and glau- 
cous beneath ; the flowers are large, pretty white 
and extremely fragrant ; with refpecl to its flowers 
and leaves it differs very little from the Magnolia 
glauca. The filvery whitenefs of the leaves cf this 
tree had a ftriking and pleafing effect on the fight, 
as it flood amidfl the dark green of the Chiercus 
dentata, NyfTa fylvatica, Nyf. aquatica, Gordonia 
lafianthus, and many others of the fame hue. 
The tall afpiring Gordonia lafianthus, which now 
flood in my view in all its fplendour, is every way 
deferving of our admiration. Its thick foliage, of 
a dark green colour, is flowered over with large 
milk-white fragrant blolToms, on long flender elaf- 
tic penuncles, at the extremities of its numerous 
branches, from the bofom of the leaves, and renewed 
every morning; and that in fuch incredible pro- 
fufion, that the tree appears filvered over with them, 
and the ground beneath covered with the fallen 
flowers. It at the fame time continually pufhes 
forth new twigs, with young buds on them ; and 
in the winter and fpring, the third year's leaves, now 
partly concealed by the new and perfect ones, are 
gradually changing colour, from green to golden 
yellow, from that to a fcarlet, from fcarlet to crim- 
i©n } and laftly to a browniih purple, and then fall 
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