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green, reddish and black glandular-like tubercles, from each of which 

 a hair arises, capitated by a viscous crown, emitting a terebin then ate 

 odour. Leaves consisting of many pairs of linear and oval-linear, 

 obtuse, very smooth leaflets, of an apple-green colour, supported by 

 very short stalks, on a hispid petiole. They are very numerous, 

 often thirty-nine, forty-nine, and fifty-one. Stipules ovate, acumi- 

 nate, with a decurrent base. Flowers about three or five, borne in 

 simple racemes, garnished with a leaf or two. Peduncles hispid and 

 glandular, zig-zag. Loment stipitate, arcuate, somewhat compress- 

 ed, but showing the elevation produced by the seeds and the depres- 

 sions by the dissepiments conspicuously, making from six to nine 

 joints ; hispid-scabrous, the tubercles being large, red, and promi- 

 nent. Corolla gamboge-yellow, reticulately veined with carmine- 

 red. Grows along the margins of rivers subject to the overflowing 

 of the tides, and on the islands of most of our large tide-water rivers, 

 from Pennsylvania to Carolina. July, August. 



The greek word mhjpnpm, to be ashamed, has given origin to the 

 generic name iEschynomene, because the plants of that genus are 

 somewhat sensitive, and shrink from the touch. It is a tropical genus, 

 containing thirteen species, native to India and America. The 

 North American species are only two, both of which are rare. The 

 one here figured is a scarce plant even in those places where it is in- 

 digenous. Along the shores of the Delaware, near Philadelphia, 

 where it grows naturally, but three or four specimens can be found 



