The Species with , us are , 
i. Gleditsia fpinofa. Triple-thorned Acacia , 
or Honey Locujl . 
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 garnilhed 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, comprefied 
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 firfl, but hath fewer 
fpines, which are very fhort. The leaves are alfo 
fmaller and the pods oval, containing but one feed. 
GLYCINE. 
PERENNIAL KIDNEY BEAN. 
Clafs 17. Order 3. Diadelphia Decandria. 
T HE Empalement is of one leaf, ccmpreifed and two lipped: 
the upper lip emarginate and obtufe : the lower, longer, 
acute, and three-cleft 5. the middle divifion longed. 
