WITNESS THE SPRIGHTLY 
STRIKES THE QUICK SENSE, AND WAKES 
TO BRISKER MEASURES. . 
AND ALL ABOUT GREW EVERY 
TO WHICH SAD LOVERS WERE TRANSFORMED OF YORE... Spenecr. 
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ACACIA, 
ROBINIA. 
Order.—DECANDRIA. 
Nat. Or 
LEGUMINOS&. 
Class 17.—pIADELPHIA. 
Juss. 
s John Robin, ns. (> : eg A th 
ns, fi eds, th 
Pseudo Avavia; by Tou rnefort ; who, under that name, 
founds fhe — genus 
cacia, is an a. name, eas 
Greek Axe, a po: i 
to its thorny ha bit, 
The Rose Acacia, 2 et i or Hairy Robinia, isa native of 
f the mountains of Virginia an and Caro- 
shrub, with copious, large, pink- 
ced like the M 
Ee 
, in reference 
— 
eine. he  yitaess is of a beaut nl ie ght ne green, consisting | 
pod many elliptical, opposite 
sa large an a ha handsome tree, of sereaps wn 
hich 
: ‘car erie? grain, gan so hard, as to be substituted pee tes 
rts of work. The 
branches are 
for the box, in many sorts of light 
ras Haare 
liable to be shi 
Thereisa horny species of Robinia, 
wi yllow ower 
= native of Siberia ae also af Debts 1S in China: in the latter | 
is frequently practic aca hears ee 
JOY, WHEN 
AUGHT UNKNOWN 
BACH ACTIVE POWER 
Akensic'e. 
eles ei wee. 6 Bete cen eee 
SORT OF FLOWER 
iia eneneennnneCeEeenen. ah. cleenennennREEREREE 
keep off intruders. This R. Spinosa, or Thorny Robinia, is a 
make uch branched, and long thorns, formed by the 
banianed foot-stalks. It is a ae in our oe, ns, = 
would ahancliont for hed, ges é a wedg' 
shaped, hardly an inch in length. 
Riad igese ntal Acacia, from which our green-houses 2 : aur 
aay yeon 
aides : Ae Pg sia Pol yandri a Monogynia. ee 
3s. The 2 flowers 
f 
% Pp 
epontaneonsly, ina a liquid § 
~— contact with the air, and of th: 
re sometimes made through the ty to assi ist th 20 
trasudation vot ss jui 
The -adica, OF east Indian av Arabic tr e, besides 
mene e mucilage, is one of the mo me aa 
agh and hard patie serving man 
le purposes in shipbuilding, &c., the bark is used for 
anes ct making ink 
