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_ have tlie appearance of a four-cornered leaf The 

 leaves are fingle, and wrapped clofe about the flower- 

 ftalk at their bale to a confiderable length •, there are 

 feldom more than two of thefe leaves from one root i 

 the ftalk is flender and round, and riles about two feet 



and the top is garniihed with two flowers, 



high ; 



which are placed two inches and a half afunder on 

 the fame fide of the ftalk, each having a iliort fpatha, 

 or fheath, embracing the germen and the bafe of the 

 tube, which is long, narrow, and recurved, but en- 

 larges greatly before it is divided. The upper part 

 of "the flower is cut into fix equal fegments, which 

 end in acute points of a purplifli colour, which form a 

 ftripe through the middle of each fegment. The petal 

 is of a cream colour, and fades to a fulphur colour 

 before it decays. This flowers in June, and fome- 

 times the feeds ripen well in England. This may be 

 propagated by offsets from the root, or by feeds in 

 the fame manner as the fifth fort, and the plants re- 

 quire the faiA^ treatment. 



GLANDIFEROUS trees, are fuch trees as bear 



ir.aft, as Acorns, &c. 

 GLANDULOUS roots, are fuch roots as grow 



kernel-wife. 

 G LA N S is that fort of fruit which is contained within 

 a fmooth, but hard bark, having but one feed ; its 

 hinder parts covered with a kind of cup, the fore- 

 part being bare, as Acorns ; but it is properly the 

 fruit without the cup. -" - ' 



GLASTENBURY THORN. See Mespilus. 



GLAUCIUM. See Qhelidonium. 



GLAUX, Sea Chickweed, or Milkwort, and black 



Saltwort, is a low trailing perennial plant, with leaves 



• foniewhat like Chickweed, but of a thicker confiftence, 



which fit clofe to the ftalks. The flowers come out 



froitl the bofom of the leaves ; they are white, and 



- like'thofe of Chickweed. This is feldom cultivated in 

 ^gardens, fo I fliall not trouble the reader with a fur- 

 ther account of it. This grows upon the fea-fhores in 

 moft parts of England. 



G LE C H O M A. Ground Ivy, Gill go by the Ground, 

 Ale-hoof, or Turn-hoof. 



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Gleditsia {Inermis) fpinis paucioribus, folis bipin- ^ 

 natis, fihquis ovalibus. Glediifta v:ith fcvi^er fpines^ 

 winged leaves, aud oval pods. Acacia Abru^ folio tri- 

 acanthos, capfula ovali unicumfemen claudenre. Ca- 

 tefl3. Car. i. p. 43. "Three-thoned Acacia with an Ab- 

 rus leaf^ and an oval pod containing one feed, 

 Thefe trees grow naturally in America; the firft 

 fort is very common in moft parts of North America 

 where it is known by the title of Honey Locuft ; this 

 has been many years cultivated in the Englifli gardens, 

 and is know^n among the gardeners by the title of 

 three-thorned Acacia. It rifes with an ere£l trunk 

 to the height of thirty or forty feet, and is armed with 

 long fpines, which have two or three fmaller coming 

 out from the fide, and are frequently produced in 

 clufters at the knots on the ftems of the trees j they 

 are fometimes three or four inches long. The 

 branches of this tree are alfo armed with the fame fort 

 of fpines, and are garniflicd with w^inged leaves, com- 

 pofed of ten pair of fmall leaves which fit clofe to 

 the midrib, and are of a lucid green. The flowers 

 come out from the fide of the young branches in 

 katkins-, they' are of an herbaceous colour, fo make 

 no figure. The hermaphrodite flowers are fucceeded 

 by pods near a foot and a half long, and.two inches 

 broad, divided into many cells by tranfverfe parti- 

 tions, each containing one fmooth, hard, oblon^ feed. 



furrounded by a fweet pulp. 



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in this country, and the flowers appear the latter end 

 of July, but they do not flower till they are of a large 

 fize : there was one tree in the Chelfea garden which 

 produced flowers feveral years, and there is one now 

 growing in the Bifliop of London's garden at Ful- 

 ham, which produced pods in the year 1728, and 

 came to their full fize, but the feeds did not ripen. 

 The fecond fort hath much the appearance of the 

 firft, but it hath fewer fpines. The leavels are fmaller, 

 and the pods are oval, containing but one feed ; 

 this was difcovered by the late Mr. CateflDy, in Ca- 

 rolina, from whence he fent the feeds to EnMand, 

 bv the title of Water Acacia, bv which ir i.q known 



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This plant grows naturally under hedges, and upon I in the gardens. 



the fides of banks in moft parts of England, fo is I Thefe trees are propagated by feeds, which muft be 

 rarely cultivated in gardens, for which reafon I Ihall J procured from America, where the trees grow natu- 

 pafs over it, with barely mentioning it here. ' | rally •, thofe of the firft fort are annually fent to Encr- 



land in plenty, by the title of Locuft, or Honey Lo- 

 cuft, to diftinguifh it from the falfe Acacia, which is 

 frequently called Locuft-tree in America ; thefe feeds 

 may be fown upon a bed of light earth in the fpring, 

 burying them half an inch deep ; and if the fpring 

 Ihbuld prove dry, they muft be frequently watered, 

 otherwife the plants will not come up the firft year, 

 for I have fometimes Had the feeds remain two years 

 in the ground before they have come up ; therefore 

 thofe who are defirous to fave time, Ihould fow the 

 feeds as foon as they arrive, and plunge the pots Irita 

 a moderate hot-bed, obferving to water them fre- 

 quently •, by this method moft of the plants will come 

 up the fame feafon, but thefe fhould be gradually 

 inured to bear the open air, for if they are continued 

 in the hot-bed, they will draw up weak; during the- 

 fummer feafon, thofe plants in pots will require fre- 

 quent waterings, but thofe in the full ground will 

 not dry fo faft, therefore need no water, unlefs the 

 feafon Ihould prove very dry. In autumn, thofe in 

 the pots fhould be placed under a hot-bed frame to 

 protect them from froft, for thefe young plants ge- 

 nerally keep growing late in the fummer, fo the up- 

 per part of their fhoots is tender, and the early frofts 

 of the autumn often kill the ends of them, if they 

 are not protefted, and this frequently occafions great 

 part of the fhoots decaying in winter ; for which rea- 

 fon thofe plants in the full ground fhould be co- 

 vered with mats in autumn, on the firft appearance 

 of froft; for a fmall froft in autumn will do more 

 mifchief to thefe young fhoots \vhich are full of fap, 

 than fevere froft when the fhoots are hardened. 

 The following fpring the plants may be tranlplantcd 

 into nurfery-beds, at a foot diftance row from row, 



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GLEDITSIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1025. Acacia. Raii 

 - Meth. 161 . Honey Locuft, or three-thorned Acacia. 



The Characters are. 

 It hath male and hermaphrodite flowers in the fame 

 katkin, and female flowers in different plants. I'he male 

 Jtatkins are longy compaSl^ and cylindricaly and have each 

 a three-leaved fmall empalement ; they have three roundifh 



• fetalsy which fpread open in form of a cup ; thefe have 

 a turbinated ne^arium, whofe mouth afterzvard grows to 



. the parts of frumficalim\ ^ they hd^iftx flender ft amina, 

 which are longer than the petals, terminated hy oblong 

 compreffed fummitff'' Jhe hermaphrodite flowers in the_ 

 fame katkin, are fttuated at the end^ thefe have empale- 

 ments, petals, dndflamina like the male, and have a ger- 

 men.ftylc, and feeds like the female:, which arejitualed on 

 different trees, and are difpofed iu^a toofe katkin -^ thefe 



; baye a five-leaved empalement, and have five oblong petals, 



• ivith twofljort thread-like neStariimi, and a broad ger- 

 men longer than the petals, fupporting a fhort reflexedfiyle. 



crowned by a thick flifma. "^The mermen afterward be- 



This genus of plants is ranged irl the fecMd"' feftion 

 of Linnsus's twenty-third clafs", intitled Polygamia 



.JJioeccia, which includes thofe plants which have male 

 |5>d hermaphrodite flowers in the fame plant, and 

 lemale flowers in different plants. 

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^T • ^Q^^^^"^ (^n^r^w//&/^5) fpinis triplicibus axillaribus. 

 Lm- Sp. 1509. Gleditfla with three thorns on the fide of 

 the bra>iches. Acacia Americana Abru^ folio triacan- 

 thos five ad axillas foliorum, fpina triplici donata. 

 i^luk. Mant. I. Three-thorned American Afac^a. 



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