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Seeds 1 or 2 in each capsule, covered with a scarlet pulp, hanging for a 
few days after they quit the capsule by a thread attached to their base. 
Grows in rich, light soils, very common all along the sea coast of Geor- 
gia and Carolina ; rarely found in Carolina more than 40 miles from the 
sea coast — in Georgia it extends higher up the country being found in the 
neighbourhood of Miiledgeville, and in the Alabama I saw it growing 
plentifully as high up as Fort Jackson. 
Flowers May— August. 
2 . Glauca. 
M. fbiiis ovali lan- 
ceolatis, subtus glau- 
cis; petalis obovatis, 
basi attenuatis. 
Sp. pi. 2. p. 1256. Walt. p. ] 
P- 77. 
Leaves oval lance- 
olate, l^affco’us'imder- 
neath 5 petals obo- 
vate, tapering at base. 
I. Mich. 1. p. 327- Mich. arb. 3, 
A shrub frequently becoming a small tree, remarkable for its white or 
somewhat glaucous bark. Leaves alternate, on petioles about an inch 
long, acute, shining, and when young pubescent, underneath glaucous, 
pubescence when young having a silken lustre. Flowers solitary, ter 
minal. Leaves of the calyx oval, glabrous, membranaceous, sprinkled 
with pellucid dots, as long as the corolla. Petals generally 9, obovate, 
white, as long as the receptacle. Filaments very numerous, compressed, 
with the point acuminate and extending beyond the anthers. Anthers at- 
tached to the inner side of the filaments. 
This is probably the most fragrant plant in our forests. It grows in 
great profusion along the margin of the rich swamps which border our ri- 
vers, and in the morning and evening during the period of its flowering, 
the atmosphere of our streams is often literally perfumed with its fra- 
grance. 
We have a variety with perennial leaves which sometimes becomes a 
tree 50 — 60 feet high. I have been able to discover no other distinction 
between these two plants than this difference of habit. 
Grows in swamps and wet soils, though extremely abundant in the low 
country of Carolina — it is very rarely found upon the islands which bor- 
der the sea coasts. 
Flowers April— May. 
3. Acuminata, 
M. foliis ovalibus, a- 
cuminatis, subtus pu- 
bescentibus; petalis o- 
bovatis, obtusiusculis. 
Leaves oval, acumi- 
nate, pubescent un- 
derneath ; petals obo 
vate, rather obtuse. 
Sp. pi. 2. p. mr. 
Walt. p. 1 59- 
Mich. 1. p. 329- 
Fursh. 2. p* 
