29.) 



The scvciuli vis>cs willi iipriiflil. hnMuliiiig .^lalks six or seven feel 

 hinl), becoming woody lowanis liie root, willi callous tlols dispersed 

 upon it, hut not perennial (at least they are iiol so lieie in any situa- 

 tion, the j)lanls always deeaying in winler) ; lliey are smooth, and 

 the leaves are coni])osed ol" four or live pairs ot" louii; winged lobes, 

 which have about twenty pairs of small leaves ranged along the mid- 

 rib; are smooth and roimdcd at their j)<)ints, ot' a lull gicen on iheir 

 upper side, but pale on llieii- under: these sniall leiv("S coulracl 

 themselves logelher on their being touched, but (he loot-stalks do 

 not {leclin(; at the same time, as those do which are tilled Humble 

 I'lanls; it is therefore calh^d the Sensitive Plant by way of dislini- 

 tion: the flowers are ])roduced upon long loot-stalks, which come 

 out from the wings of the leaves, and are disposed in globular heads 

 which nod downward, arc^ yellow ; and all those which have |ietals 

 have ten stamina in c\uh, but those situated round llic border have 

 neither petals nor stamina; those on the up[)er pari of the spike are 

 succeeded by pods an inch and a half long, and a (juarler ol" an inch 

 broad, which change to a dark blown when ri|)e, inclosing three or 

 four compressed, shining, blaek seeds. It is pr()i)ably a native of 

 America. 



I'he eighth specie> lias the stems seldom more than two feel and a 

 half high, and smooth: the leaves are comjiosed of three or four pin- 

 iias, which arc shortiM', and the leallels much n;M rower than in the (irst 

 and seventh sorts; the heads of the flowers are smalk^', being made 

 up of nian\' long while, filaments, forming altogether a round head, 

 and the pods longer and narrower, an iiu'h loni;, and a ipiarler of an 

 inch broad, with a round protuberance at each seed, it grows na- 

 turally in all llu' islands of the West Indies, where it has its name 

 from ihe leaves not contracting on being touched. 



The ninth species has a shrubby erect stalk about fixe leet high, 

 hairy and arnu d with short, broad, strong thorns, which are while, 

 standing on each side, almost opj)osit(>, or alternale: the leaves five 

 or six-paired, with a strong midrib, and between each pair two short 

 strong spines, pointing out each w.iy: the leaflets extremelv narroM- 

 and very close: towards iIk upjjv-i jiarl of the stalk the flowers arc 



