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racemes at the ends of the branches, bright yellow. Pods two to 

 three inches long, containing two to eight seeds. The pods but 

 slightly contracted between the seeds. A small tree twenty to 

 thirty feet high, with light-green, smooth bark. This is the 

 Falo verde of the Mexicans or Green-bark Acacia. Wood bard, 

 and much valued for fuel. 



PAULOWNiA, Siebold. 



A noble Japanese tree introduced into this country nearly 

 forty years ago, and has long been a popular ornamental tree 

 on account of its large tropical-looking leaves, and handsome 

 fragrant flowers. Grows freely from cuttings of the roots or 

 seed. There is but one species. 



PauloM nia imperialis. — Imperial Paulownia. — Leaves large, 

 heart-shaped, resembling those of the catalpa, but usually much 

 larger, and on young, thrifty shoots, they are frequently one to 

 two feet broad. Flowers trumpet-shaped, in large, upright 

 branching panicles, violet color, and fragrant. A very rapid 

 growing tree when young, but after reaching a hight of twenty 

 or thirty feet, the branches spread laterally to a great distance, 

 forming a rather broad, flat head. Hardy at the North, but in 

 the latitude of Boston and Central New York, the flower buds 

 are frequently killed in winter. 



PERSE A, Gaertn. — Bed Bay, 



A small genus of evergreen trees and shrubs of the Laurel 

 Family. Flowers greenish or white, and the fruit a small ovid 

 drupe. Two species natives of our Southern States, and one in 

 the West Indies. 



Persea Carolinensis, Nees. — Red Bay. — Leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late, smooth, two to three inches long, deep-green above, 

 whitish beneath. Flowers silky, in roundish clusters, on short 

 stems. Fruit deep blue. A large tree, forty to seventy feet high 

 in rich, shady woods of North Carolina to Florida, and west- 

 ward along the coast to Texas, Wood reddish or rose-color, 

 hard, strong, durable, and susceptible of a high polish. 



P. Catcsbyana. — Michx. — Leaves smooth, lanceolate-oblong, 

 sharp-pointed. Flowers minute, white, and somewhat downy 

 within. Fruit small, black, on ciub-shaped stalks. A small 

 tree, but more often a low shrub. Southern Florida. 



PINCKNEYA, Michx. — Georgia Baric. 



A genus of one, or at most, two species of small evergreen 

 trees, closely related to the Cinchona, which yields the well 



