No. 5ee. 
ROBINIA JUBATA. 
Class, Order. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
A native of Siberia, near lake Baikal: it 
was imported into this country by Mr. 
Pog in 1796, and is a low shrub of a cu- 
s and shaggy appearance, occasioned 
by the footstalks and stipules changing toa 
kind of spiny matter, and remaining long 
after the leaves are fallen. The flowers 
come out in the months of April and May. 
It is very hardy, but difficult of increase. 
We have succeeded best by grafting it on 
the R. caragana. ee 
This genus was named after John Robin, 
botanist to King Henry IV. of France: he 
published a catalogue of his plants, and 
nein it Fae 
greediness, as he rather chose to destroy than 
communicate any toothers. It is incredible 
how much mankind have lost, and are still 
losing, from this malevolent spirit, which 
is thus traced back to those dark ages in 
which what little knowledge men had was 
rendered still less in value, by the illibe- 
