( 1957 ) 
DAVIESIA MIMOSOIDES. MIMOSA-LEAVED 
* -Daviesta. | 
JH HES aHHHeHiebt 
Class bad Ouiés, | 
DecanpRIA Monoeynta, 
Gencrie Character. 
Cal. angulatus, ebracteatus. Cor. papilionacea : carina 
vexillo brevior. Germen pedicellatum, dispermum. Stylus 
strictus. Stigma simplex. Legumen compressum, angulatum, 
elastice dehiscens. Strophiola seminis postice integra, Brown. 
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7 Specific Character and Synonyms, 
Daviesta mimosoides ; ramis inermibus, foliis elongato- 
lanceolatis mucrone brevissimo innocuo, corymbis axil- 
laribus geminis solitariisve, bracteis adpressis, calycis 
labio superiore retuso. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 20. 
Daviesta corymbosa. Bot. Repos. 611. Donn Hort.. Cantab, 
a Pursh, p. 134, nec Smithii. fe 
Davinsta glauca. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 43. — : 
This is a very pretty little shrub, bearing a profusion of 
flowers in May, June, and July. It has been generally 
called Daviesta corymbosa in our nurseries, and is recorded 
as such in Donn’s Catalogue, being mistaken for the species . 
_ $0 named by Sir James Epwarp Situ, in the 9th volume 
© of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, a mistake which 
: has been since corrected by Mr. Brown, in the third volume 
t _ of the Hortus Kewensis, published in 1811, where our plant 
: 1s recorded under the name of mimosoides. Established by 
; such an authority, this appellation ought not to have been 
\ again changed, and more especially in an English work. But 
the same has been lately published in the Botanical ean iio 
