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The characters are : that the male has a long, 

 compact, cylindric ament : the calyx is a peri- 

 anthiuni proper, three-leaved, (three -cleft,) 

 leaflets patulous, small, acute: the corolla has 

 three roundish petals, sessile, patulous, like the 

 calyx : nectary turbinate, with the other parts 

 or the fructification growing to the mouth : the 

 stamina have six filiform filaments, longer than 

 the corolla ; anthers incumbent, oblong, com- 

 pressed, twin : hermaphrodite in the same 

 anient with the males, usually terminating: 

 the calyx is a four-cleft perianthimn, otherwise 

 as in the male : the corolla has four petals, other- 

 wise as in the male : nectary as in the male : the 

 , stamina as in the males : the pistillum, pcricar- 

 pium, and seed as in the female : female a lax 

 ament, on a distinct plant : the calyx is a peri- 

 anthium proper, as in the male, but five-leaved 

 (five-cleft) : the corolla has five petals, long, 

 sharp, from upright spreading : nectaries two, 

 short, like filaments : the pistillum is a broad 

 germ, flatted, longer than the corolla: style 

 short, reflex: stigma thick, the length of the 

 style, along which it grows, pubescent at top: 

 the pericarpium is a very large broad legume, 

 extremely flatted, divided by several transverse 

 partitions, and filled with pulp : the seeds so- 

 litary, roundish, hard, shining. 



The species is G. triacanthos, Three -thorned 

 Acacia. 



It is a tree common in most parts of North 

 America, where it is known by the name of 

 Honey Locust. It rises with an erect trunk to 

 the height of thirty or forty feet, and is armed 

 with long spines, three or four inches long, 

 which have two or three smaller ones coming- 

 out from the side, and are frequently produced 

 in clusters at the knots of the stem. The 

 leaves are bipinnate, composed of ten pairs of 

 leaflets, of a lucid green colour,, and sessile. 

 The flowers come out from the side of the young 

 branches, but, being of a herbaceous colour, 

 have little appearance. 



In this climate the leaves seldom come out 

 till June, and the flowers not till the end of 

 July ; the tree does not produce flowers till it is 

 of a large size. 



There are varieties with fewer spines, and the 

 leaves smaller, the pods oval; with but one 

 seed ; and with stronger spines. 



Culture. — These trees are. capable of being 

 increased by sowing the seeds obtained from 

 America, in a bed of light earth in the early 

 spring, water being occasionally given when the 

 weather is dry. But it is a more expeditious 

 practice to sow them in pots, and plunge them 

 in a moderate hot-bed. They should be kept 

 clean during the first summer, and in the win- 



ter be protected from sharp frosts, especially 

 those plants that arc in pots. In the following 

 spring the young plants may be most of them 

 removed into nursery-rows at a foot or eighteen 

 inches distant, with eight or ten inches in the 

 rows. The small ones that remain may be put 

 out in the following autumn or spring. They 

 should remain in this situation till they have 

 had two or three years growth, when they 

 may be planted where they are to remain any 

 time in the later part of the spring. 



They succeed best in light deep soils in shel- 

 tered situations. 



These are all very ornamental trees, being well 

 suited to plantations and large shrubbery parts, 

 and when planted alone in large openings or 

 lawns kept in grass they produce a fine effect, 

 hut have the disadvantage of putting forth their 

 leaves late. 



GLOBE-AMARANTH. Sec Gomphrena. 



GLOBE-FLOWER. See Trollius. 



GLOBE-THISTLE. See Echinops. 



GLOBULARIA, a genus comprising plants 

 of the herbaceous flowery perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Tetmndria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Aggregates. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a com- 

 mon perianthium, imbricate, with scales the 

 length of the disk and equal : proper one- 

 leafed, tubular, five-cleft, sharp, permanent 

 (four- or five-toothed; the teeth bristle-shaped 

 and acuminate) : corolla is universal, nearly 

 equal : proper monopetalous, tubular at the 

 base: border five-parted: upper lip very nar- 

 row, two-parted, shorter : lower of three larger, 

 equal segments: the stamina have four filaments, 

 simple, the length of the corollule: anthers di- 

 stinct, incumbent : the pistillum is an ovate 

 superior germ : style simple, the length of the 

 stamens : stigma obtuse : there is no pericar- 

 pium : proper calyx converging, inclosing the 

 seed : the seeds are solitary and ovate : the 

 receptacle is common, oblong, separated by 

 charts. 



The species chiefly cultivated are: 1. G. Aly- 

 pum, Three-tooth-leaved Globularia ; 2. G. 

 vulgaris, Common Globularia, or Blue Daisv. 



There are other species that may be cultivated. 



The first has a hard woody stem, about two 

 feet high, with many woody branches, beset 

 with leaves like those of the myrtle. The 

 flowers are produced on the tops of the branches 

 in a ball, and are of a blue colour. It is a na- 

 tive of the south of Europe, flowering from 

 August to November. 



This shrub is said to possess a violent purging 

 quality. 



