Muscicapa Nigresscens: The Blackcap Fly-Catcher.
The Bi11 is broad and black; the Upper-part of the Head of a dusky
black; the Back, Wings and Tail are brown, the Breast and Belly
white, with a Tincture of yellowish Green. The Legs and Feet are
black. The Head of the Cock is of a deeper black than that of the
Hen, which is all the Difference between them. I don't remember
to have seen any of them in Winter. They feed on Flies and other
Insects. They breed in Carolina.
Gelseminum, sive Jasminum luteum odoratum Virginianum seandens,
This Plant grows usually in moist Places, its Branches being supported
by other Trees and Shrubs on which it climbs. The Leaves grow opposite
to each other from the Joints of the Stalks; from whence likewise
shoot forth yellow tubulous Flowers; the Verges of which are notched
or divided into five Sections. The Seeds are flat and half winged,
contained in an oblong pointed Capsula, which, when the
Seeds are ripe, splits to the Stalk and discharges them. The Smell
of the Flowers is like that of the Wall-Flowers. These Plants are
scarce in Virginia, but are every where in Carolina.
They are likewise at Mr. Grays at Fulham; where, by
their thriving State, they seem to like our Soil and Climate. Tho'
Mr. Parkinson calls it semper virens I have always
found it lose its Leaves in Winter.