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ingly tall ftraight Pines (Finns Paluftris) that ftooft 
at a confiderable diftance from each other, through 
which appeared at N. W. an almoft unlimited plain 
of graffy favannas, embellillied with a chain of final- 
low ponds, as far as the fight could reach. Pie re 
is a fpecies of Magnolia that affociates with the 
Gordqnia lafiaqthus ; it is a tall tree, fixty or eighty 
feet in height!) ; the trunk ftraight ; its head termi- 
nating in the form of a fharp 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 refpedl to its dowers 
and leaves, it differs very little from the Magnolia 
glauca. The filvery whitenefs of the leaves of this 
tree, had a ft ri king and pleafiiig effecl on the fight, 
as it ftoqd amidft the dark green of the Quercus 
dentata, Nyffa fvlyatiea, Nyfi aquatica, Gordon! a 
Jafianthus, 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 
defervir,g of our admiration. Its thick foliage, of 
a dark green colour, is flowered over with large 
milk -white fragrant bloilfoms, on long (lender elaf- 
tic peduncles, at die extremities of its numerous 
branches, from the bofom of the leaves, and renewed, 
every morning ; and that in fuch incredible profu- 
fufion, that the tree appears filvered over with them, 
and the ground beneath covered with the fallen 
flowers, ' It at the fame time continually pufties 
forth new twigs, with young buds on them, and 
in the winter and fpring, the third year's leaves, now 
partly concealed by the new and perfect ones, are 
gradually changing colour, frogi green to golden 
yellow, from that to a fcarlet, from fear let to crim 7 
Jon ; ai)d laftly to a brow-nifti purple, and then fall 
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