NORTH AMERICA. 
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inodorus, Staphylea trifoliata, Chionanthus, Ha- 
mamelis, Callicarpa, Sambucus, Cornus alba, Vi- 
burnum dentatum, Spirea opulifolia, Cornus fan- 
guinea, Cephalanthus, &c. and of herbaceae a vaft 
variety and abundance, as Verbefina, Rudbeckia, 
Phafeolus, Tripfacum, Aeon i turn napellus, Delphi- 
nium, Angelica lucida, Tradefcantia, Trillium fef- 
file, Trillium cernuum, Adtsea, Chelone, Glycine 
apios, Convalliaria racemofa, Mediola, Carduus, 
Bidens frondofa, Arum triphyllum, Coreopfis alter- 
nifolia, Circasa, Commelina, After, Solidago, Eu- 
patorium, Helianthus, and Silphium, together with 
a variety of other tribes and fpecies new to me. 
In the evening I arrived at Little river, and took 
up my quarters at a public houfe on its banks, near 
its confluence with the Savanna. This is a beauti- 
ful rapid water, about fifty yards over. On a branch 
of this river is fituatedthe town ofWrightfborough. 
Near the ford, on the banks of this river, I firft 
obferved a very curious fhrub, a beautiful ever- 
green, which appears to be allied to the Rhodo- 
dendron, though the feed veftels feem to bear more 
the charadteriftics of the Kalmia. This fhrub grows 
in copfes or little groves, in open, high flotations, 
where trees of large growth are but fcatteringly 
planted j many fimple items arife together from a 
root or fource eredt, four, five and fix feet high j 
their limbs or branches, which are produced to- 
wards the top of the items, alfo ftand nearly eredt, 
lightly diverging from the main items, which are 
furniihed with moderately large ovate pointed in- 
tire leaves, of a pale or yellowifn green colour ; 
thefe leaves are of a firm, compadt texture, both 
furfaces fmooth and ihining, and ftand nearly eredt 
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