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The fruit is likewife produced the fame manner, 
but is fmaller, of a red colour, and an extremely 
acid tafte. 
And alfo to the Genus Prunus, belongs , 
L AURO-CER ASUS. 
The LAUREL-TREE. 
Of which we have but one Species, viz. 
Prunus-Lauro-Cerasus ferratifolia. Carolinian 
Evergreen Bay-tree . 
This is ct beautiful evergreen fhrub, but of fmal! 
growth ; fpreading with lateral branches, on every 
fide and covered with a brown bark. The leaves 
are fpear-fhaped, above two inches long and three 
quarters of an inch or more in breadth, with a few 
lharp ferratures on their edges, Handing alternately 
on very fhort footftalks, of a thick confiftence, and 
fliining green colour, continuing their verdure all 
the year. The flowers are generally very numerous, 
perfectly white, and are fucceeded by roundifli fruit 
of the fize of a middling cherry, of a black colour 
when ripe. This is a native of South Carolina, and 
other iouthern States. 
P T E L E A. 
PTELEA, 
Clafs 4, Order 1. Tetrandria Monogynia. 
HTIdE Empalement is five-parted, acute, and fmall. 
The Corolla has four petals, ovate-lanced, plane, fpread- 
ing, larger than the calyx, and coriaceous. 
The 
