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The second species is a smooth tree, with small leaves almost 

 wedge-shaped ; the flowers large and yellow ; the legume compressed, 

 torulose, flat at the back and belly, keeled at the sides with longitu- 

 dinal membranes. It is a native of New Zealand, flowering in May 

 and June. 



The third has a perennial creeping root, from which arise several 

 erect stalks from three to four feet high: the leaves unequally pin- 

 nate: the flowers pale blue and small, in long axillary spikes stand- 

 ing erect close to the stalk: they smell sweet. It is a native of the 

 Levant, flowering in July and August. 



' The fourth species has a herbaceous stem, most commonly de- 

 cumbent: the leaves cuneate-oblong, smooth, yellowish green; the 

 stipules ensi'form, longer than the shortest petiole; the flowers are 

 blue. It is a native of Carolina, flowering in June and July. 



The fifth has a perennial root, from which arise several stalks 

 about a foot and half high, sending out from the bottom a great 

 number of small branches: the flowers come out towards the end of 

 the branches in short spikes; are yellow, and appear in July. It is 

 a native of Barbadoes and Virginia. 



The sixth species has the stem even, high, dark purple: the leaves 

 like those of Laburnum, even, elliptic, smooth on both sides, an inch 

 and half long: the stipules scarcely any: the raceme a foot long, 

 pendulous: the flowers white, the size of those of Laburnum. It 

 flowers in June, arid is a native of Virginia and Carolina. 



The seventh species has a downy stem, six or seven feet high: 

 the leaves unequally pinnate, composed of five or six pairs of leaf- 

 lets : the flowers in short loose axillary spikes, large and yellow, not 

 unlike those of Spanish Broom, void of scent: the pods larger^ 

 Svoolly, five or six inches long, having four or five large swellings, in 

 each of which is a roundish brown seed as big as a pea. It is a 

 native of Ceylon. 



The eighth is a shrub, with a round hoary-pubescent stem, and 

 round spreading subtotncntose branches, six or seven feet in height: 

 the leaves on alternate, long, spreading, round, hoary pclioles, thick- 

 ened a* the, base: leaflets opposite, mostly six-paired with an odd 



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