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to the ground. So that the Gordonia lafianthus 
may be faid to change and renew its garments 
every morning throughout the year ; and every day 
appears with unfading luftre. And moreover, after 
the general flowering is part:, there is a thin fuc- 
ceffion of fcattering bloflbms to be feen, on fome 
parts of the tree, almoft every day throughout the 
remaining months, until the floral feafon returns 
again. Its natural fituation, when growing, is on 
the edges of fhallow ponds, or low wet grounds on 
rivers, in a fandy foil, the neareft to the water of 
any other tree, fo that in droughty feafons its long 
ferpentine roots which runs near or upon the furface 
of the earth j may reach into the water. When 
the tree has arrived to the period of perfect magni- 
tude, it is fixty, eighty, or an hundred feet high, 
forming a pyramidal head. The wood of old trees 
when fawn into plank is defervedly admired in ca- 
binet-work orfurniture ; it has a cinnamon coloured 
ground, marbled and veined with many colours : 
the inner bark is ufed for dying a reddilh or forrel 
colour ; it imparts this colour to wool, cotton, 
linen, and drelfed deer-lkins, and is highly efleemed 
by tanners. 
The Zamia pumila, the Erythryna, coralloden- 
drum, and the Cactus opunfia, grow here in great 
abundance and perfection. The firft grows in the 
open pine forefiis, in tufts or clumps, a large co- 
nical ftrobile difclofmg its large coral red fruit, 
which appears Angularly beautiful amidfl the deep 
green fern-like pinnated leaves. 
The Erythryna carollodendrum is fix or eight 
feet high ; its prickly limbs ftride and wreath about 
with lingular freedom, and its fpikes of crimfon 
flowers have a fine efFe& amidfl the delicate foliage. 
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