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WILD ORANGE TREE. 
CITRUS vulgaris, (Risso) petiolis alatis , foliis ellipticis acutis crenu - 
latis, floribus icosandris , fructuum globosarum cortice tenui scabroso , 
pulpa acri amara. Dec and. Prod. I. p. 539. Risso, Annal. Mus. vol. 
20, p. 190. 
Citrus Aurantium Indicum. Gall. citr. p. 122. 
Citrus Bigarradia. Nouv. Duhamel, vol. 7, p. 99. 
Bigarade of the French, or Bitter Orange. 
Citrus spinosissima ? Meyer, Essequib. p. 247. 
Aurantium vulgar e, acre ; primum . Farrarius, Hesper. p. 374. 
Aurantium sylvestre , medulla acri . Tournefort’s Institutes^ p. 620. 
Malm Aurantia sylvestris , J. Bauhin, Hist. vol. 1, p. 99. 
From the relation of William Bartram, in his Travels 
up the St. John’s in East Florida, in the year 1774, it is 
evident that the Orange tree is abundantly indigenous to 
the banks of that stream. Groves of Orange trees, of large 
dimensions, loaded with their golden fruit, spread them- 
selves before the traveller in the greatest profusion, and he 
might readily imagine himself transported in reality to the 
gardens of the Hesperides. As the Orange was there found 
an established denizen of the country, previous to all Euro- 
pean settlement, we must of course conclude it to be, like 
the banana and some other tropical productions, a native 
alike of both the old and the new continent. These forests 
of the Wild Orange trees are frequent in East Florida as 
far north as the latitude of 28°. According to the observa- 
tions of the late Mr. Croom, “ they are rarely found north 
of latitude 29° 30', although there is a small grove near the 
Alligator Pond, which is somewhat north of latitude 30°. 
The fruit, (according to Torrey and Gray,) is known by the 
name of the Bitter-Sweet Orange. 
To show the extent of these groves, in a notice of the 
