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Chignanthus virginica. Virginian Snow-dr op Tree* 
This fhrub grows naturally in feveral places in 
North America, in a moift foil ; rifmg to the height 
of fifteen or twenty feet, fpreading into many branch- 
es, covered with a light coloured bark. The leaves 
are large, oblong and entire, placed nearly oppofite. 
The flowers are produced towards the extremity of 
the (hoots of the former year, upon lhort, leafFy, 
common footflalks; at the bofom of the leaves of 
which, the proper footflalks come out, and are divid- 
ed for the mod part into three parts, but often more ; 
each fuftaining one fmali flower, with four very long, 
narrow, white petals ; which, when fully grown, make 
a beautiful appearance : thefe are fucceeded by oval 
berries, of a livid blackifli colour when ripe, each 
containing one hard, oblong, pointed feed. The 
bark of the root of this fhrub, bruifed and applied 
to frefb wounds, is accounted by the natives a fpeci- 
fie, in healing them without fuppuration. 
CLETHRA. 
C L E T H R A. 
Oafs io. Order i. Becandria Monogynxa, 
T HE Empakment is of one. leaf, five-parted ; the leaves are 
ovate, concave, erect and permanent. 
The Corolla confifts of five petals, oblong, broader without, a 
little fpreading, and longer than the calyx. 
The Filaments are ten, awl-ihaped, and the length of the corol- 
la. The Antherce oblong-ereft, gaping at the apex. 
The Germen is roundifih. The Style is thread-form, ereft, per- 
manent, and increafing. The Stigma is three-cleft. 
The Seed-veJJel is a capfule, roundifh, covered with the calyx, 
three-cell’d and three-valv’d. 
The Seeds are many and angled. 
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