34. 
THE ACACTA. 
Robinia pseud-Acacia. 
Puate 5, Fie. 1. 
ness of quae distinguish this 
Tree. above all other inhabitants 
of cultivated woodland. Although 
not a native of our island, a resi- 
dence with us of nearly two hun- 
ki dred and fifty years gives it a claim to 
i a place in these accounts of woodland 
ok Trees. Its specific name of Pseud- 
Acacia, or ‘the false Acacia,’ was given to it on 
account of an original, but mistaken, belief that it 
was the same species of Tree as Acacia vera, the 
Egyptian Acacia or Locust-Tree, supposed to 
