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The Species with^ us are^ 



I. Gleditsia fpinofa. Triple-thomed Acacia^ 

 or Honey Locuft. 



This tree grows naturally in a rich foil, rifing to 

 the height of thirty or forty feet, dividing into ma- 

 ny branches, which, together with the trunk, are 

 armed with long pithy fpines of five or fix inches in 

 length, fending off laternal ones, fome of which 

 are nearly the fame length, and generally triple thorn- 

 ed. The branches are garniflied with winged leaves, 

 compofed of ten, or more pair of fmall lobes, fitting 

 clofe to the midrib, of a lucid green colour. The 

 flowers come out from the fides of the young 

 branches in form of katkins, of an herbaceous co- 

 lour, and are fucceeded by crooked, comprefTed 

 pods, from nine or ten to fixteen or eighteen inches 

 in length, and about an inch and a half or two inch- 

 es in breadth, of which near one half is filled with 

 a fweet pulp, the other containing many feeds in 

 feparate cells. The pods, from the fweetnefs of 

 their pulp, are ufed to brew in beer. 



2. Gleditsia aquatica. Water Acacia. 



This fort grows naturally in Carolina, and hath 

 much the appearance of the firft, but hath fewer 

 fpines, which are very fliort. The leaves are alfo 

 fmaller and the pods oval, containing but one feed. 



GLYCINE. 



PERENNIAL KIDNEY BEAN. 

 Clafs 17. Order 3. Diadelphia Decandria. 



THE Empalement is of one leaf, compreffed and two lipped: 

 the upper lip emarginate and obtufe : the lower, longer, 

 acute, and three-cleft; the middle divifion longeft. 



The 



