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leaves are of the double pinnated kind, as that and every thing 

 elfe material can be learned from the figure, full as perfectly 

 as if the flower was before them ; none of the parts, how- 

 ever trifling and fmall, being neglected in the reprefenta- 

 tion, and none of them fuppofed or placed there out of order, 

 for ornament, or any other caufe whatever : a rule which I 

 would have the reader be perfuaded is invariably obferved 

 in every article reprefented in this collection, whether tree or 

 plant, beaft, bird, or fifh. 



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ERGETT EL KRONE. 



THE next of this fpecies of Ergett or Mimofa, is called in 

 Abyffinia Ergett el Krone, or the Horned Ergett ; I ap- 

 prehend the figure of the pods have given it that appella- 

 tion. Its flower in fize and form very much relembles 

 the acacia vera, only that it is attached to the branch 

 by a long and flrong woody flalk, which grows out at the 

 bottom of the branch bearing the leaves, and is fheltered 

 as in a cafe by the lower part of it. The branches of it are 

 all covered with very fliort, flrong, fharp-pointed thorns, 

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