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ner as other tender exotic plants from very warm countries. 

 Those sorts which grow upright and tall, will soon rise high 

 enough to reach the glasses of the hot-bed, especially if they 

 thrive well; therefore they should be shifted into larger pots, 

 and removed into the stove, and if plunged into a the tan-bed 

 there, it will greatly forward them. The perennials will live 

 through the winter, if preserved in a warm stove, and in the 

 following summer will produce flowers and ripen their seeds. 

 Some of them may be propagated by laying down their 

 branches, which will put out roots, and then may be sepa- 

 rated from the old plants ; and they may be increased by 

 cuttings, but the plants which rise from seeds are greatly 

 preferable. Some of those, the stalks of which spread near 

 the ground, may be turned out of the pots in the middle of 

 June, and planted in a very warm border, where, if covered 

 with bell or hand glasses, they will live through the summer, 

 but will not grow very large, and upon the approach of cold 

 in the autumn are soon destroyed : however, those who have 

 not conveniency of stoves or tan-beds, may raise the plants 

 on common hot-beds in the spring, and, when they have 

 acquired strength, they may be treated in this manner, whereby 

 they will have the pleasure of these plants in summer, though 

 not in so great perfection as those who have the advantages 

 before mentioned : but these plants will not thrive in the open 

 air in this country, nor will they retain their sensibility when 

 they are fully exposed to the air. 



*****With doubly pinnate Leaves. 



27. Mimosa Scandens ; Climbing Mimosa. Unarmed : 

 leaves conjugate, terminated by a tendril; leaflets two-paired. 

 This species climbs to the tops of the tallest trees, to the 

 height of one hundred and fifty feet, frequently overspreading 

 many of the neighbouring branches, and forming large ar- 

 bours. It is called Cocoon in the West Indies. Native of 

 both Indies, and of Cochin-china. 



28. Mimosa Plena; Double-lowered Sensitive Plant. Un- 

 armed: leaves bipinnate; spikes five-stamined, the lower ones 

 full or double. This plant was discovered at Vera Cruz, 

 growing in stagnant water, the stalks floating upon the water. 



29. Mimosa Triquetra; Three-sided Mimosa. Unarmed, 

 procumbent: leaves two-paired; heads roundish; stems com- 

 pressed below, three-sided above. Stems slender, a foot high, 

 simple, smooth, compressed at bottom, above striated, and 

 three-sided. Native of the East Indies. 



30. Mimosa Natans ; Floating Mimosa. Leaves bipin- 

 nate, two-paired or three-paired ; leaflets thirteen-paired ; 

 heads oblong; stem flexuose, rooting at bottom. Stems her- 

 baceous, angular, smooth, floating, putting out rooting fibres 

 at the lower joints. Loureiro says that it is cultivated in 

 Cochin-china for salads, being fastened to stakes in the water, 

 that it may not float away, as it is entirely detached from the 

 earth. 



31. Mimosa Virgata; Long-twigged Mimosa. Unarmed, 

 erect, angular: leaves bipinnate; spikes ten-stamined, the 

 lower ones castrated males. Spike roundish, nodding; 

 flowers yellow. Native of the West Indies. 



32. Mimosa Punctata ; Spotted-stalked Mimosa. Unarm- 

 ed : leaves bipinnate; spikes erect; flowers ten-stamined, 

 lower ones castrated. It rises with upright branching stalks 

 six or seven feet high. The small leaves, twenty pairs of 

 which are ranged along the midrib of the lobes, contract them- 

 selves together on their being touched, but the footstalks do 

 not incline at the same time, like those entitled Humble 

 Plants. Browne calls it the Larger Smooth Sensitive, and 

 says that it has been introduced into Jamaica from some 

 other part of the world ; probably from the continent of 

 America. See the twenty-sixth species. 



33. Mimosa Pernambucana ; Slothful Mimosa. Unarmed: 

 leaves bipinnate ; spikes drooping, five-stamined, lower ones 

 castrated; stem decumbent. This grows naturally in all the 

 islands of the West Indies, where it is called the Slothful 

 Sensitive Plant, because the leaves do not contract on being 

 touched. 



34. Mimosa Arborea ; Rough Tree-Mimosa. Unarmed : 

 leaves bipinnate ; pinnas halved, acute ; stem arboreous. This 

 is a lofty tree, with an upright smooth trunk, covered with 

 an ash-coloured bark. In Jamaica, where it is found in most 

 parts of the island, it is called Mountain or Wild Tamarind 

 Tree; it grows to a very considerable size, and is looked upon 

 as an excellent timber wood. Native of the West Indies, 

 China, and Japan. 



35. Mimosa Julibrissin ; Smooth Tree-Mimosa. Arbores- 

 cent : leaves bipinnate ; pinnules cultriform, acuminate ; all 

 the flowers perfect. This is a tree, with a smooth ash- 

 coloured bark; the branches as it were in whorls, tuberous 

 at the base, nodding at the end. Native of the Levant. 



36. Mimosa Comosa ; Bearded Mimosa. Unarmed, arbore- 

 ous: leaves bipinnate, trijugous ; pinnas (nine or ten paired,) 

 ovate, retuse at the base; flowers panicled, monadelphous. 

 Native of Jamaica. 



37. Mimosa Lebbeck. Unarmed : leaves bipinnate, qua- 

 drijugous; pinnas oval-oblong; flowers monadelphous, in 

 bundles ; stem arboreous. Native of Upper Egypt. 



38. Mimosa Odoratissima ; Sweet-scented Mimosa. Un- 

 armed : leaves bipinnate, quadrijugous, roultijugous ; leaflets 

 oblong, blunt; panicles rod-like; spikelets globular. This 

 is a lofty tree, with vil'lose and somewhat hoary branches ; 

 flowers white, and very fragrant. Native of Ceylon. 



39. Mimosa Speciosa; Bladder-sena-leaved Mimosa. Un- 

 armed: leaves bipinnate, subquadrijugous ; pinnas generally 

 nine-paired; leaflets oblong, smooth, a gland above the base 

 of the rib. This is a very elegant tree, quite smooth all over ; 

 flowers numerous, very sweet, in a handsome head, at the top 

 of which is one flower different from the rest, and abiding 

 longer. 



40. Mimosa Vaga. Unarmed: leaves bipinnate; outer 

 pinnas larger, curved in, pubescent. This is a middle-sized 

 tree, with spreading branches. Native of the East Indies, 

 Cochin-china, and Brasil. 



41. Mimosa Corniculata. Unarmed, bipinnate: petioles 

 swelling at the base, supported by a little callous horn; leaf- 

 lets generally eight-paired. Native of China, near Canton. 



42. Mimosa Villosa. Unarmed : leaves bipinnate, gene- 

 rally five-paired ; pinnas ovate, both they and the petioles 

 villose ; flowers globular, many-stamined ; stem shrubby. 

 Native of the West Indies. 



43. Mimosa Latisiliqua ; Broad-podded Mimosa. Un- 

 armed: leaves bipinnate; partial ones five-paired; branchlets 

 flexuose; buds globular. Native of the West Indies. 



44. Mimosa Polystachia. Unarmed : leaves bipinnate ; 

 partial ones and pinnas six-paired, oblong. This plant, which 

 becomes a tree itself, climbs up other trees, overtops them, 

 and drags them down by its weight. The flowers are small, 

 herbaceous, and so numerous that the compound spike some- 

 times contains 4500 of them. Native of the West Indies ; 

 where it is a great nuisance to the sugar planters, by destroy- 

 ing the trees which they set to shelter their sugar grounds. 



45. Mimosa Mangensis. Spines solitary, short; leaves 

 bipinnate, generally nine-paired; spikes globular, axillary, 

 solitary. Flowers white, void of scent. Native of Jamaica, 

 and other islands of the West Indies ; found about Carthagena 

 in New Spain, and frequent also in the island of Mango. 



46. Mimosa Muricata; Muricated Mimosa. 



Unarmed : 



