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2. MIMOSA SENSITIVA. 



SENSITIVE PLANT. 



This genus contains plants of the shrubby and under shrubby 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Polijgcouia Monacia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Lomentacea. 



The characters are: tiiat the calyx is a one-leafed perianthium, 

 five- toothed, very small : the corolla has one petal, funnel-form, half- 

 five-cleft, small: the stamina have capillary, very long filaments: 

 anthers incumbent: the pislillum is air oblong germ : style filiform, 

 shorter than the stamens: slignia truncated: the pericarpium is a 

 long legume, Avith several transverse partitions: the seeds many, 

 roundish, of various forms. 



The species cultivated are: 1. M. plena. Double-flowered Annual 



Sensitive Mimosa; 2. M. viva, Lively Mimosa; 3. M. quadrivalvis, 



Quadrivalve-podded Humble ]\Iimosa; 4. M. sensifiva. Sensitive 



Plant; 5. M. piid/ca, Humble Plant; 6. M. virgata, Long-twigged 



Mimosa; 7- M. punctata. Spotted-stalked Mimosa; 8. 71/. pernamhu- 



cana. Slothful Mimosa; 9. M. asperata. Hairy-podded Mimosa; 10. 



M. pigra, .Slow American Sensitive Plant; 11. M. glauca. Glaucous 



Mimosa; 12. M. cnvnigcra. Horned Mimosa, or Cuckold Tree; 1,'}. 



M. horrida. Horrid Mimosa ; \4. M. Farnesiana, Farnesian Mimosa, 



or Sponge Tree; 15. M. Nihtica, Egyptian Mimosa; l6. M.verticil- 



lafa, AVhorl-lcaved JNIiniosa; 17. M. arboiea. Rough Tree IMimosa; 



18. M. Lebbeck, Lebbeck, or Egyptian Mimosa; 19. M. htihiUqua, 



r)road-podded Mimosa ; 2(). M. tamarindifoUa, 'J'amarind-Ieaved 



American Mimosa; 21. M. circimdis, Spiral Mimosa; 22. M. pennata. 



Small-leaved Mim;;sa; 23. iM. latifolia. Broad-leaved Mimosa; 24. 



M. purpurea, Purple Mimosa, or Soldier Wood; 25. M. reticulata^ 



