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Netted Mimosa; 26. M. sc.nukns, Clunbin- Mimosa; 27- M.»>!irfi- 

 folia, Myrtic-lcaved Munosa ; 28. if. suaccotcns, Ssvocl-scenled 



Mimosa. i i ■,. 



The first, when cullivated in ihe garden, has -reat resemblance to 

 the seventh son; but the stalks never grow so c.vct, the wings ot the 

 leaves are longer, and stand more horizontal: the heads ot dowers an. 

 much larger, the stamens are longer, and the flowers on the under s.de 

 of the spike which have no stamens arc double; the pods also arc 

 siiorter, and much broader than those of that soil. 



It is annual; tlu> stems round, herbaceous, smooth, procu.nbent, 

 rooting at all the joints: the leaves ihivc-p.ired or lour-pa.red, con- 

 iraclino with the "least lonch: lioin the ax.is of these spring erect 

 peduncles. Tour or five inches high, with scales the whole length, 

 sustaining handsome, v.-llow, almost globular heads the same size 

 Milh those of red clover: the tiowers different m shape, nature and 

 use- those in the nnddle truly five-pelalled, in small hve-cleil calyxes, 

 with many long stamens; but those in the circuit, instead ot stamens, 

 have oblong, bcrautilul, golden leatiets, much wider and handsmner 

 than the true petals, which are small and of a greenish colour. 

 These double flowers are barren ; but the single ones are succeeded by 

 flat, smooth, two-valved legumes, containing several black, sinning, 

 coini)ressed seeds. It is a native of La Vera Cruz. 



The second species has trailing herbaceous stalks, putting out 

 roots at every joint, and spreading to a considerable distance. A 

 single plant, in the stove, in one summer, has spread near three feet 

 sciuare, and the branches so closely joined, as to cover the surface of 

 the bed ; but when permitted to grow thus, the plants seldom produce 

 flowers: the leaflets are narrow, and the petioles are short and 

 smooth: the flowers axillary, on naked peduncles about an inch in 

 lenoth; they are of a pale yellowish colour, and are collected into 

 small globular heads: the legumes short, flat, jointed, containing 

 three or four compressed, roundish seeds. 1 1 is a native of Jamaica. 

 The third has a creeping root: the stalks slender, havuig four 

 acute angles, armed pretty closely with short recurved spines: the 

 leaves on long prickly foot-stalks, and thinlv placed on the branches: 



