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Que'rcus, Laurus, Morus, Juglans, Tilia, Ha- 
lefia, dEfculus, Callicarpa, Liriodendron, &c. 
Arrived in the evening at the plantation below 
the Cliffs, and the next day got fafe back to my 
friend’s habitation. 
Obferved few vegetable productions different 
from what grow in Carolina and Georgia; per- 
haps in the fpring and early fu miner feafon, here 
may be feme new plants, particularly in the high 
forefts and ridges, at fotne difiance from the ri- 
ver : there is however growing in the rich high 
lands, near on the banks of the river, which I ob- 
ferved in the fettlement of Baton Rouge, an ar- 
borefeent aromatic vine, which mounts to the tops 
of the higheft trees, by twilling or writhing fpi- 
rally round them ; fome of thefe vines are as 
thick as a man’s leg, of a foft fpungy texture, 
and flexible, covered with a Cinnamon coloured 
bark, which is highly aromatic or fpicy. The 
large oblong leaves fit oppofite on the branches, 
and are of a full deep green colour ; but its fea- 
fon of flowering being pall, and the feed Matter- 
ed, I am entirely ignorant to what genus it be- 
longs ; perhaps it is a non-defeript or new genus. 
Here is likewile a new and beautiful fpecies of 
Verbena, with decumbent branches and lacerat- 
* ed deep green leaves ; the branches terminate 
with corymhi of violet blue flowers : this pretty 
plant grows in old fields where there is a good 
foil. 
The fevere diforder in my eyes fubverted the 
plan of my peregrinations, and contracted the 
fpan of my pilgrimage South-Weflward. This 
difappointment affe&ed me very fenfibly* but re- 
Agnation and. reafon refuming their empire over 
my 
