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closely armed with small brown prickles, flir ra- 

 ther stiff bristly hairs, like raspht 1 some 

 sorts <Jf roses : the heaves are like those of title 

 first sort, but the leaflets ardrirgc* tntl rounder : 

 the flowers, are larger, and df u deep n>- co- 

 lour, but Ihoy have no scent: they coineotit 

 early in June, and make a tine appearand ; 

 each flower is on a short separate pedicel] the 

 legumes flat oblong, it is a native of Carolina. 



The third has arboreous trunks, commonly 

 bcanched from the bottom, -lender, with a 

 smooth, shining, coriaceous harltj covered- by a 

 :>h ash-coloured skin : branches alternate, 

 very much divided ; twigs rod-like, weak, very 

 Italy, ash-coloured or greenish, with longitu- 

 dinal nerves running from hud U> bud : buds al- 

 ternate, frequent, bearing bbth leaves and (low- 

 ers, unarmed, with the stipules of the btid*- 

 leaves soft, but in the new branches spVnescerit, 

 divaricating, rigid. It is a native Of Siberia, 

 flowering in April and May. 



The fourth species has a bran* bed trunk from 

 the bottom, with a duskv or greenisli-'ash-co^ 

 lourcd bark ; there are commonly many lateral 

 shoots or suckers from the root : the branches 

 rod-like, pliant, loaded With leaves and flowers, 

 of a shining yellowish colour, with longitudinal 

 gray nerves, with triple spit.es: the leaves on 

 the shoots of the: year alternate, with spjneseent 

 stipules; from the buds in bundles, wiih un- 

 armed stipules : the leaflets clustered, obovate, 

 attenuated at the base, with a spinule at the 

 end : petiole spinescent, after the leaves are- 

 fallen, hardening with the stipules into a ti i pie 

 spine : the peduncles on the b»a"nches of the pre- 

 ceding year from each hud, one, two, or three, 

 bent a little at the joint, one-flowered. It is a 

 native of Siberia, by the Volga, &c. 



Tii' fifth has trunks covered with a shining 

 yellowish hark : wood of a very deep bay, almost 

 as hard as horn : the older twigs round, with 

 a beautifully golden shining cuticle; branchlets 

 gray, with very frequent twO-spined buds : the 

 spinules slender like needles, spreading, arising 

 from the stipules, in the older branches decidu- 

 ous : the leaflets four or six in the spontaneous 

 shrub clustered in bundles, quite sessile, linear 

 acuminate, a little hispid : the peduncles spring- 

 ing singly from most of the buds on the h'anch- 

 lets among the leaves, the length of the leaflets, 

 bent at the joint. In this climate it is a low 

 shrub, seldom rising more than three feet. The 

 flowers are yellow, and appear in April. It is a 

 native of Siberia. 



The sixth species resembles the third sort, but 

 is distinguished by its stiff or thorny stipules : 

 it is a shrub above the height of a man : tbi 

 lets six or eight, ovate, even: common . 



Vol. II. 



<vo •>"'. . the whole of it 



end : the stipules aw 



nial : the trunk i I halt in 



diaineti r, Withbr I i letttrtb, 



ed a, id i' 

 a hi I, full ■ I branched and 



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whole summer, it appear.- ven beautiful: thie 

 wood/ bay-coloured within, oi 

 low, am! verj hard : the cuticle on the you i 

 bra' How, less shilling, and 



more strigose than in the fifth sort, with ash- 

 coloured longitudinal nerves, running from 

 branch to brat : I md, di- 



varicatin . the thorns spreading out 



every way almost at r . dterna'e, very 



large, arising from the permanent petioles en- 

 larged, marked also with the scars of the leaf- 

 lets, and having at the base on each side a small, 

 bristle-shaped spindle, standing up, and arising 

 from the stipules : there are several lea< s and 

 two or three flowers from the axils oi all the 

 spines on the branches : the petioles are spines- 

 cent : the 1 only two pairs, but 

 sometimes three and even four, lmear-laneeo- 

 late, mucronaie at the end with a spinulc, op- 

 posite and remote': tHe peduncles are so short 

 that the flowers seem to be sessile. It is a native 

 of Siberia. 



On account of the length and toughness of 

 the branches, and its large stout thorns, it is 

 admirably adapted to form impenetrable hedges, 

 and is sufficiently hardy to bear our climate. 



The seventh is an upright tree without thorns, 

 growing to the height of twelvi feet: the leaves 

 alternate, numerous, shining ; having three leaf- 

 lets on each side, sometimes two, very seldom 

 five : these are ovate, blunt, emarginate, entire, 

 petioled, opposite, two inches long: the ra- 

 cemes axillary, half a foot in length; pedicels 

 short, two-flowered, numerous : the flowers 

 have the smell and colour of violets. It is a na- 

 tive ( '.' CaPthagena. 



The eighth species h is- ,i shrubby stem, three 

 feet high, upri ht»br i ted : the leaflets ovate- 

 lanceolate, smooth, bright green, two- or three- 

 paired : the t terminating, short: th< 

 corolla vellow : the legume oblong, narrowing 

 to each end, s'rtioOth : the brandies round, un- 

 armed : the leaflets five, ovate, smooth, quite 

 entire: the racemes have three flowers fixed at 

 each tooth, each oh its proper pedicel : the c\l\ x 

 Bubtruncate. It is a native < !' the East Indies, 

 &c. 



Culture. — The first six hardy sorts are all ca- 

 pable of being raised from ■> i lings - , layers, 

 and suckers ; but the seed method is said to af- 

 1 r I the best plants. 



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