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3. Azalea vifcofa paluftris. Swamp Azalea „ 
This is a variety of the white kind, growing na- 
turally in wet low ground. It is of lower growth, 
with leaves rough and clammy at their firft appear- 
ance. The flowers are white, but not fo fweet as the 
former. There is alfo fome other varieties differing 
fomewhat in the difpofition or appearance of their 
flowers, &c. 
BACCHARIS. 
PLOWMAN’S SPIKENARD. 
Clafs 19. Order 2. Syngenefia Polygamia 
Superflua. 
r T^HE Common Calyx is cylindrical, and imbricated ; the Scales 
linear and acute. 
The Compound Corolla , is equal with Florets Hermaphrodite and 
Female mixed. 
The Proper of the hermaphrodite is funnel- form and five cleft. 
— of the female fcarce manifeft, or alrnoft none. 
The Filaments of the hermaphrodite are five, capillary and very 
fmall. The Antherce cylindrical and tubulous. 
The Germen of the hermaphrodite is ovate. The Style filiform 
and the length of the flower. The Stigma is bifid or two 
cleft. 
Of the female very like the hermaphrodite. 
The Seed-vejjel none, but the calyx changed. 
The Seeds of the hermaphrodite and female much alike, folita- 
ry, very fhort, and oblong. The Pappus Ample. 
The Receptacle is naked. 
* The Species are , 
Baccharis halimifolia. Virginian Groundfel 
Tree . 
It rifes to the height of fix or eight feet, fending 
out many erect branches, garnifhed with leaves 
which 
