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ROBINIA HISPIDA. 



Rose Acacia. 



DiADELPHTA. DeCANDRIA. 



Class 17. Order 4. 



Robinia: so named in honour of John Robin, botanist to Henry IV. 

 and Louis XIII. of France. 



Linn. gen. n. 879. Lhm. stjst. 688. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



CaL Perianth one-leafed, small, bell-shaped, four-cleft : the three 

 lower toothlets more slender 3 the upper fourth toothlet wider, 

 scarcely emarginate to the naked eye : all equal in length. Cor. 

 papilionaceous. Standard roundish, larger, spreading, blunt. Wings 

 oblong, ovate, free, with a very short blunt appendix. Keel almost 

 semi-orbicular, compressed, blunt, the length of the wings. Sfarn. 

 Filaments diadelphous, (simple and nine-cleft,) ascending at top. 

 Anthers roundish. Pist. Germ cylindrical, oblong. Style filiform, 

 bent upwards. Stigma villose in front, at the top of the style. 

 Per. Legume large, compressed, gibbous, long. Seeds few, kidney- 

 form. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Racemes axillary. Leaves unequally pinnate. Stem unarmed, hispid. 



In its native countiy this shrub will frequently attain the height 

 of twenty feet, but in Britain is rarely half that height. The 

 young branches are armed with closely set brown bristly hairs, 

 in some measure resembling the RaspbeiTy, but the hairs are 



