NORTH AMERICA* 
inodorus, Staphylea trifoliata, Chionanthus, Ha- 
xnamelis, Callicarpa, Sambucus, Corn us alba, Vi- 
burnum dentatum, Spirea opulifolia, Cornus fan- 
guinea, Cephalanthus, &c. and of herbacese a vaft 
variety and abundance, as Verbefina, Rudbeckia, 
Phafeolus, Tripfacum, Aconitum napeHus, Delphi- 
nium, Angelica lucida, Tradefcantia, Trillium fef- 
file, Trillium, cernuum, Abl^ea, Chelone, Glycine 
apios, Convalliaria racemofa, Mediola, Carduus, 
Bidens frondofa, Arum triphyllum, Coreopfis alter - 
nifolia, Circ<ea, 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 fi tuated the town of Wrightfborough. 
Near the ford, on the banks of this river, I fir ft 
obferved a very curious fhrub, a beautiful ever- 
green, which appears to be allied to the Rhodo- 
dendron, though the feed veffels feem to bear more 
the characfteriftics of the Kalmia. This fhrub grows 
in copfes or little groves, in open, high fituations, 
where trees of large growth are but fcatteringly 
planted ; many iimple ftems arife together from a 
root or fource eredt, four, five and fix feet high ; 
their limbs or branches, which are produced to- 
wards the top of the ftems, alfo ftand nearly erect, 
lightly diverging from the main ftems, which are 
furnifhed with moderately large ovate pointed in- 
tire leaves, of a pale or yellowifh green colour ; 
thefe leaves are of a firm, compare texture, both 
furfaces fmooth and fhining* and ftand nearly erecT 
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