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                       vfrbutus-. Lin. Gem. Plant. 552. The Strawberr y Tree
    'THE 4ýharade rs are, 
    THE Flower hath a fmall, obtufe, pemrnaftent Empalement, which is cdt
into five Parts, A, .,ot 
 Vhich the Germen fits; the Flower B, is of one Leaf, fhaped like a Pitcher,
and divided into five 
 Parts at the Brim, which turn backward; it hath ten lhort*Stamina, C,  'iich
are joined at the 
 Bottom to the Flower Leaf, thefe are crown'd with bifid Summitsý
as D, at the Bottom of the Flower 
 is fituated the globular Germen, E, fupporting a cylindrical Style, F, crowned
by a thick blunt 
 ,tigma. After the Flower is pail, the Germen becomes an oval or round Berry,
having five Cells 
 filled with hard Seeds, as teprefented at G. 
   THIs Genus if Plants is ranged in the tenth Clafs of Linneus, entitled
DECANDRIA MONOGyNIA, 
 from the Flowers having ten Stamina and one Style. 
    Ttis Specie iS, 
    ABUTUS (tUnedo) foliis Glabris ferratis, baccis polyrpermis, caule eteao
aboreo, Strawberry-tree 
 with fmooth fawed Leaves, Berries having many Seeds, and an upright Trunk,
Arbutus folio ferrato. 
 C. B. P. 46o. 
    THIs fort is the common Strawberry tree, and is too well known to require
any Defcription of it 
 here, being at prefent in moft of the Englifh Gardens, and is one of the
greateft Ornaments to them 
 in the Months of O&ober and November, that being the Seal~n when the
Trees are in flower, and 
 the Fruit of the former Year is ripe ; for the Fruit is an whole Year growing
to perfeaion : the Fruit 
 which is produced from the Flowers of one Year, do not ripen till the Bloffoms
of the fucceeding Year 
 are fully blown ; fo that When there is plenty of Fruit and Flowers upon
the Trees, they make a 
 goodly Appearance, and at a Seafon when moft other Trees are paft their
Bauty. Mill. Gard. Dif. 
                             P     L    A     T      E       XCII, 
   Ma2gnolia. Pluin. n- v GIen. 3 Tab. 7 Lin. Cn. Plant. 690 g The Laurel
leaved Taulp!tree. Yulg'. 
   Tut Chara~terts Afej 
   THE Empalement is compofed of three oval concave Leaves) A, like Petals,
which foon fall away;i 
the Flowers is compofed of nine oblong blunt Petals, which are concave, as
B. It hath a great 
Number of fhort Stamina, which are compreffed and inferted in the Germen,
terminated by linear 
Summits, adhering to every'Side of the Stamina;i it hath many oblong oval
Germenj C, faftened to the 
Receptacle, f-upporting -recurved, contorted, Ahort Styles, 9, with longitudinal
hairy Stigmas ; the 
Germen afterward becomes oval cones) as E, with roundifli compreffed Capfules,
almofl imbricated# 
having one Cell, opening with two Valves, F, inclofing one Kidney lhaped
Seed, hanging by a flendef 
Thread from the Scale of the Cone, as G. 
    THIS Genus of Plants is ranged in the feventh Se&ion of Li'nntus's
thirteenth Clafs, entitled 
POLYANDRIA POLY'GYNIA, which includes thofe Plants whofe Flowers have many
Stamina and 
Styles : if Fither Plumi7er's Figure of the Seaion of this is exa&,f
his mull be a different Genus from 
this, for the Seeds of his is reprefented within the Fruit lying round a
Column. 
THis Specie is, 
    MAGNOLIA (Grandiflora) foliis lanciolatis petfiftentibtis, caule eredtarborea.lV
172. Magnolia with fpear fhaped Leaves, which are ever green, and an ered
'T 
Magnolia attiflima flore ingenti Candido, Catefb. Carol. 2. P. 61. Talleft
Ma,,noli w 
white Flower, commonly called greater Magnolia or Tulip Tree with a Laurel
Leaf, 
    THIs Sort grows in Florida and South Carolina, where it rifes to the
height of eight 
with a fArait Trunk upward of two Feet diameter, having a large regular Head,;
the 
Tree refembleth thofe of the common Laurel, but are much larger and are of
a hining 
upper Side, and in fome they are of a ruffet or buff Golour; on their underfide,
thefe L 
all the Year, fo that this is one of the moft beautiful ever-green Trees
yet known 
are produced at the End of the Branches j they are compofed of eight or ten
Pet 
narrow at their Bafe, but broad at their Extremity, where they are rounded,
and