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the leaves of both these distant cousins, as they may be called, is 

 still undistin^uishable. Here also by the road side we saw the far- 

 famed Carob tree, which has lately flowered and bears its young 



THE CAROB BEAN. 



horse beans thick upon its branches. This abnormal member of the 

 great pea family has so far advanced in the scale of excellence as to 

 bear its male and female flowers on separate trees ; and the student 

 of botany, after readings a diagnosis of the order as usually set forth 



