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ruinate with one or more very large expan five neu- 
tral or mock flowers, (landing on a long, (lender, 
itifF peduncle ; thefe flowers are cornpofed of four 
broad oval petals or fegments, of a dark rofe or 
crimfon colour at fir ft, but as they become older 
acquire a deeper red or purplifli hue, and laftly are 
of a brown or ferruginous colour; thefe have no 
perfect parts of generation of either fex, but difco- 
ver in their centre, two, three or four papillae or 
rudiments ; thefe neutral flowers, with the whole 
pannicle, are truly permanent, remaining on the 
plant for years, until they dry and decay : the leaves 
which clothe the plants are very large, pinnatifid 
or palmated, and ferrated or toothed, very much 
refembling the leaves of fome of our Oaks ; they 
fit oppofite, fupported by (lender petioles, and are 
of a fine, full green colour. 
Next day after noon we eroded Flint river by 
fording it, about two hundred and fifty yards over, 
and at evening came to camp near the banks of 
a large and deep creek, a branch of the Flint. 
The high land excellent, affording grand forefts, 
and the low ground vaft timber and Canes of great 
height and thicknefs, Arundo gigantea. I obferv- 
ed growing on the deep dry banks of this creek, a 
fpecies of fhrub Hypericum, of extraordinary (how 
and beauty (Hypericum aureum). It grows eredl, 
three or four feet high, forming a globular top* 
repreferjting a perfect little tree ; the leaves are. 
large, oblong, firm of texture, fmooth and fhining ; 
the flowers are very large, their petals broad and 
confpicuous, which, with their tufts of golden fila- 
ments, give the little butties a very Splendid ap- 
pearance. 
The adjacent low grounds and Cane fwamp af- 
forded 
