
          A plant [wide?]


 I have always considered the Dianthus prolifer or Bartram's
 garden to be the identical [caroliniamus?] found near Charleston and never
 heard that this plant had been found [since?] Walter. I have heard the
 story of it long ago; but cannot remember from whom. This plant is now
 completely naturalized, not in Bartram's garden but between this and the Scheyllium
 on a swak patch if ground and a rock that has been hollowed into a though


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 [its?] presence, in old times
 serving [added: to] a cider press; this rock is all covered with it and this
 locality has been indicated by me to our botanical friends.
        