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jP dp i Ho diurna prima , omnium maxima . Mouftct 
p. 98. Rail Hift. Infed. ur. Mamankanois 111 
M S. Dni. Gualteri Raleigh penes D. Hans Sloane. 
98. Chamtfdaphna foliis Tint, floribus bullatis 
umbellatis . 
As all Plants have their peculiar Beauties, it is 
difficult to affign to any one an Elegance excelling 
all others 5 yet, confidering the curious .Structure of 
the Flower, and beautiful Appearance of this whole 
Plant, I know of no Shrub (fays our Author) that 
has a better Claim to it 5 but the noxious Qualities 
of it leffen that Efteem which its ^Beauty claims : 
For, tho* the Deer feed on its green Leaves with 
Impunity, yet when Cattle and Sheep, by fevere 
Winters deprived of better Food, feed on the Leaves 
of thefe Plants, a great Number of them die annu- 
ally on the Continent of America. — —After feve- 
ral unfuccefsful Attempts (fays the Author) to pro- 
pagate it from Seeds, I procured Plants of it at feve- 
ral times from America , but with little better Suc- 
cefsvfor they gradually diminilhed, and produced 
no Bloffoms ; till his curious Friend Mr .’Coffin fon, 
excited by a View of its dried Specimens, and De- 
feription of it, procured fome Plants of it from *Pen- 
filvaniai which Climate being nearer to that of 
England than that from whence mine came, fome 
Bloffoms were produced in July 174.0, and in ,1741, 
in my Garden at Fulham . 
99* Cenchramidea arbor faxis adnafeens , obro- 
tundoy pingui folio ; frufiu pomiforml , in plurimas 
capfulas , granula ficulnea ftilo columnari otlogono 
prteduro adhrerentia continentes , divifo 5 Balfamum 
/lindens. Plum. Almag. The Ba/famTvQe. This 
u Plant 
