NORTH AMERICA. 
minate with one or more very large expanfive neu- 
tral or mock flowers, ftandiog on a long, Header , 
ft'fF peduncle; thefe flowers are compofed of four 
bioad oval petals or figments, of a dark rofe or 
crimfon colour at fivft, but as they beccme older 
acquire a deeper red or purplilh hue, and laftly are 
of a brown or ferruginous colour ; thefe have no 
perfect parts of generation of either fex, but difco- 
ver in their centre two, three or four papilla or 
rudiments ; thefe neutral flowers, with the whole 
pannicle, are truly permanent, remaining on tills 
plant for years, until they dry and decay : the leaves 
which clothe the plants are very large, pinnatifld 
or palmated, and ferrated or toothed, very much 
refembling the leaves of fome of our Oaks ; they 
fit oppofite, fupporled by (lender petioles, and are 
of a fine, full green colour. 
Next day after noon we crofTed Flint river by 
fording it, about two hundred and fifty yards over, 
and at evening came to camp near the banks of 
a large and deep creek, a branch of the Flint. 
The high land excellent, affording grand forefts, 
and the low ground vaft timber and Canes of great 
height and thicknefs, Arundo gigantea. I obferved 
growing on the fleep dry banks of this creek, a ' 
fpecies of fhrub Hypericum, of extraordinary fhcw 
and beauty (Hypericum aureum). It grows erect, 
three or four feet high, forming a globular top 
reprefenting a perfect little tree ; the leaves are 
large, oblong, firm of texture, fmooth and Aiming ; 
the flowers are very large, their petals broad and 
confpicuons, which, with their tufts of golden fila- 
ments, give the little buflies a very fplendid ap- 
pearance. 
The adjacent Sow grounds and Cane fwamp af- 
forded 
