NORTH AMERICA. 
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ingly tall ftraight Pines (Finns Paluftris) that flood 
at a confiderable diftance from each other, through 
which appeared at N. W. an almoft unlimited plain 
of graffy favannas, emhelliihed with a chain of fh al- 
low ponds, as far as the fight could reach. Here 
is a fpecies of Magnolia that affociates with the 
Gordonia lafianthus ; it is a tall tree, fixty or eighty 
feet in heigh tli j 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, perfectly white 
and extremely fragrant ; with refpect to its flowers 
and leaves, it differs very little from the Magnolia 
glauca. The filvery whitenefs of the leaves of this 
tree had a ftriking and pleafmg effect on the fight, 
as it flood amidft the dark green of the Quercus 
dentata, Nyffa 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 bloffoms, on long {lender elaf- 
tic peduncles, at the extremities of its numerous 
branches, from the bofom of the leaves, and renewed 
every mornings and that in fuch incredible pro- 
fuflon, that the tree appears filvefed 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 j. and 
in the winter and fpring, the third year’s leaves, now 
partly concealed by the new and pencil ones, are 
gradually changing colour, from green to golden 
yellow, from that to a leaflet, from leaflet to crim- 
fon j and laftly to a brown ifh purple, and then fall 
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