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with beds of violets, lupins, Amaryllis atamafco, 
and plants of a. new and very beautiful fpecies of 
Mimofa fenfitiva, which I think as admirable and 
more charming than the celebrated Humble plant, 
equally chaite and fearful of the hafty touch of the 
furprifed admirer. The flower is larger, of a bright 
damafk rofe colour, and exceedingly fragrant : the 
whole plant is defiitute of prickles, but hairy : it is 
procumbent, reclining itfelf upon the green turf, 
and from thefe trailing branches proceeds an upright 
peduncle, fix or eight inches high, fupporting an 
oblong head of flowerets, which altogether, at a 
fmail diflance, have the appearance of an exuber- 
ant field of clover 3 and, what is Angular, and 
richly ' varies the fcene, there are interfperfed 
patches of the fame fpecies of plants, having flowers 
of the fined golden yellow, and others fnow white 3 
but the incarnate is mofc prevalent. Magnolia 
glauca, I tea Clethra, Chionanthus, Gordonia lafi- 
anthus, Ilex angufti folium, Olea Americana, Ho- 
pe a tinCioria, &c. are feated in detached groves 
or clumps, round about the ponds or little lakes, 
at the lower end of the favannas. I obferved, 
growing on the banks of this fequeftered river, the 
following trees and flirubs: Quercus fempervirens, 
Q^aquatica, Q^Phillos, Q^dentata, Nyfla aquati- 
cs, N. fylvatica, N. Ogeeche, fi. coccinea, Cupreff- 
us diflicha, Fraxinus aquatics, Rhamnus frangula, 
Prunus laurocerafa, Cyrilla racemiflora, Myrica 
cerifera, Andromeda ferruginia, Andr. nitida, and 
the great evergreen Andromeda of Florida, called 
Pipe-ftem Wood, to which I gave the name of An- 
dromeda formoflifima, as it far exceeds in beauty 
every one of this family. 
The river St. Mary has its fource from a vail 
lake, or marfh, called Ouaquaphenogaw, which lies 
between 
