SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



ACACIA. — ROBINI A PSEUD ACACIA. 



Natural order ■, Papilionacece, or Leguminosce. 

 A genus of the Diadelphia Decandria class. 



" Light-leaved acacias, and the shady plain, 



And spreading cedar, grace the woodland reign." 



Barbauld. 



Although we are far from being amongst 



the number, 



" Whose proud disgust and scorn 

 Detest those treasures which at home are born ; 

 Who feel no joy, though spreading to the air 

 His pompous trees their verdant branches rear, 

 Unless from Afric's soil their rise they boast, 



From India's deserts, or Columbia's coast. 



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But if some foreign tree, of noble size, 



With boughs majestic should adorn the skies, 



Our, forest natives with attention meet, 



And hospitable care the stranger greet ; 



Pleas'd 'mongst themselves his future dwelling make, 



Not for his scarceness, but his beauty's sake : 



If haply profit too should join with grace, 



To civic honours they admit his race." 



Delille. 

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