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The first is a magnificent tree, displaying its 

 pendulous branches of large golden fioweis in 

 May and June. It is a native of New Zealand, 



The second species is a smooth tree, with 

 small leaves almost wedge-shaped; the flowers 

 large and yellow ; the legume compressed, toru- 

 lose, flat at the back and belly, keeled at the 

 sides with longitudinal membranes. It is a na- 

 tive 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 pinnate: the 

 flowers pale blue and small, in long axillary spikes 

 standing erect close to the stalk: they smell 

 sweet. It is a native of the Levant, flowering 

 in July and August. 



Ihe fourth species has a herbaceous stem, 

 most commonlv decumlient : the leaves cuneale- 

 obloug, smooth, yellowish green ; the stipules 

 «nsiform, longer than the shortest petiole; the 

 flowers are blue. It is a native of Carolina, 

 flowering in June and July. 



The tiflh 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 boih 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, and 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 leaflets: the flowers 

 in shore loose axillary spikes, large and yellow, not 

 unlike those of Spanish Broom, void of scent; 

 the pods larger, woolly, 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 subtomen- 

 tose branches, six or seven feet in height : the 

 leaves on alternate, long, spreading, round, 

 hoary petioles, thickened at the base: leaflets 

 opposite, mostly six-paired with an odd one, 

 entire, flat, hoary, white tomentose beneath, 

 on short round petioles : the flowers in a sort of 

 spike : the peduncle terminating, erect, a foot 

 long, simjile, round, many-flowered : flowers 

 close, biggish, peduncled, yellow. It isanativeof 

 the West-Indies; flowers there in May and June. 



The ninth species has the branches round, 

 even, purplish : the leaves alternate, unequally 



pinnate : leaflets subopposite, on very short pc \ 

 tioles, oblong, blunt with a point, quite entire, 

 glaucous beneath, smooth, spreading an inch 

 long: the flowers on panicled racemed branch- 

 lets, of a white colour. It is a native of Japan. 



The tenth is a tender pubescent shrub, when 

 more advanced in its wild state naked : the 

 leaves alternate, unequally pinnate: leaflets 

 twenty-three, narrow-lanceolate, equal, quite 

 entire, shining above, subtomentose beneath : 

 the raceme terminating, composed of white re- 

 curved flowers. It is a native of the Cape. 



The eleventh species is a shrub the height of 

 a man: the root has the smell and taste of li- 

 quorice : the stem upright, round, tubercled, 

 gray : branches alternate, spreading, like the 

 stem : the leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, 

 spreading, eight inches long : petioles round oii 

 one side, channelled on the other, pubescent: 

 the leaflets from twelve to fifteen pairs, opposite, 

 on short petioles, those of the outmost longer, 

 quite entire, one-nerved, bright green, paler 

 beneath, spreading very much, flat : the stipules 

 linear, acute, pubescent, brownish, erect, per- 

 manent: the racemes axillary, solitary, pedun- 

 cled, spreading, bracted, pubescent, four or five 

 inches long : the flowers alternate, nodding, 

 yellow, eight or nine lines in length, on round 

 pedicels jointed at the top. It is a native of 

 Africa, and flowers there in July. 



The twelfth has a shrubby, round, leafv, even 

 stem : the branches almost nprioht, tomentose, 

 somewhat angular towards their tops : the leaves 

 scattered, on short petioles, ten lines long, and 

 four broad, quite entire, rounded at the end with 

 a refle.xed point, grooved above and keeled be- 

 neath, coriaceous. On each side of the petiole 

 an awl-shaped tomentose stipule, twice as long 

 as the petiole : the flowers towards the end of 

 the branches from the axils of the leaves, soli- 

 tary, on peduncles the length of the adjacent 

 leaf, white-tomentose; seldom two-flowered. 

 It is a native of the Cape, flowering from No- 

 vember to January. 



Culture. — The first iive sorts are hardy, and 

 may be increased by seeds or parting the roots. 



Tlie seeds should be sown in the spring in 

 pots of fine mould, and when the plants are come 

 np they should be removed into separate pots, 

 till they have obtained sufficient strength, when 

 they may be planted out where they are to grow. 



The roots may likewise, in many of the sorts, 

 be parted at the same season and planted in pots, 

 or where they are to remain. 



The first and second sorts may also be raised 

 from cuttings and layers, planted or laid down 

 at the same season. These, when planted against 

 a wall, so as to be protected from frost in winter, 

 succeed very well. 



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