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Of the low fhrubs, many were new to me and of a 
very pleating appearance, particularly a fpecies of 
annona (annona incarna, floribus grandioribus pani- 
culatis) ; this grows three, four, or five feet high, 
the leaves fomewhat cuneiform or broad lanceolate, 
attenuating down to the petiole, of a pale or light 
green colour, covered with a pubefcence or Ihort 
fine down ; the flowers very large, perfectly white 
and fweet fcented, many connected together on 
large loofe panicles or fpikes ; the fruit of the fize 
and form of a fmall cucumber, the fkin or exterior 
furface fomewhat rimofe or fcabrous, containing a 
yellow pulp of the confidence of a hard cuftard, 
and very delicious, wholefome food. This feems a 
variety, if not the fame that I firft remarked, grow- 
ing on the Alatamaha near Fort Barrington, Char- 
lotia, and many other places in Georgia and Eaft 
Florida ; and I obferved here in plenty, the very 
dwarf decumbent annona, with narrow leaves, and 
various flowers already noticed at Alatamaha (an- 
nona pigmasa). Here is alfo abundance of the beau- 
tiful little dwarf kalmia ciliata, already defcribed. 
The white berried empetrum, a very pretty ever- 
green, grows here on fomewhat higher and drier 
knolls, in large patches or clumps, affbciated with 
olea Americana, feveral fpecies of dwarf querci 
(oaks), vaccinium, Gordonialafianthus, Andromeda 
ferruginea, and a very curious and beautiful fhrub 
which feems allied to the rhododendron, cafline, 
rhamnus frangula, Andromeda uitida, &c. which 
being of a dark green foliage, diveifify and enliven 
the landscape : but what appears very extraordinary, 
is to behold here, deprefTed and degraded, the glo- 
rious pyramidal magnolia grandiflora, afibciated 
amongft thefe vile dwarfs, and even fome of them 
rifing above it, though not five feet high ; yet ftili 
mowing 
