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would not be familiar with the tree. Possibly the 

 Mistletoe is the golden twig that gives access to the 

 lower regions. 



The Carob occasionally produces twice pinnate 

 leaves. I have not found many instances of this 

 great curiosity. Within a few yards of the church at 

 Gairaut, near Nice, stands a tree which bears the 

 subdivided leaves. The view from this spot will 

 amply reward those who are not interested in twice 

 pinnate Carobs. There is another specimen in the 

 gardens of the Grand Hotel at Grasse. 



The young pods, and also the flowers, of the 

 Carob are considered to be poisonous. It is strange 

 that as the pod ripens, the poison should lose its 

 force. There is a tendency in many plants of this 

 order (the Leguminosre) to develop a poisonous 

 principle in the pod. The universal English cottage 

 garden plant Cytisus Laburnum, wild on the 

 mountains here, is an example. Another instance is 

 a shrub called Anagyris. I found it growing a few 

 years ago in a dismantled garden at St. Philippe, also 

 at Villefranche. Ardoino says that it is subspon- 

 taneous at the Nice Chateau. The filaments are 

 distinct, the standard very short, and the leaf 

 trifoliate. 



Another leguminous tree with poisonous pod is 

 the so-called Honey Locust (Gleditsc.kia). This tree 

 is armed with great three -branched spines. Botanists 

 will notice that several buds grow one above another 

 in the same axil, as in Paulownia and some other 

 cases. 



The pods of the Gleditschia are a foot long or 

 more, and curved or undulating. They look at a 



