BIOECIA, OCTANDRIA, 
197' 
8-parted^ 3 to 5 of the segments interior. 
Stamina 6 to 8^ (rarely 5.) Fem. — Mutt. 
1. G. spines stout, cross-branched ; folioles linear- tmcanthoa. 
oblong ; legumens very long, compressed. — 
Willd. and Pursh. 
G. meliloba, Walt. 
G. spinosa, Marshall. 
Icon. Duhani, arb. 1. t. 195. (Pursh.) Mich, 
f. Arbr. forest, vol. 3. p. 164. 
Sweet Locust. Honey Locust. Three-thorned Locust. 
A large and handsome tree, found abundantly along roads 
in the Neck and elsewhere, in the vicinity of this city, but al- 
ways, perhaps, originally planted in such places. I 2 . July. 
ORDER VIII. OCTANDRIA. 
380. POPULUS. Gen. pi. 1531. {Amentacece.) 
Masc. Ament cylindric. — Calioe consisting 
of lacerated scales. Corolla turbinate, ob- 
lique, and entire. Fem. Flower as in the 
malel Stigma 4 or 6-lobed. Capsule % or 
3-valved. Seeds beset with long wool. — 
JVutt. 
1. P. leaves siibrotund-ovate, acute, unequally grandWen- 
scolloped, with large teeth, glabrous, the younger 
ones villous petioles compressed above. — Willd. 
and Pursh. 
P. Canadensis, Mich. 
Large, Aspen. Poplar 
Occasionally met with in the neighbouring woods. \ . April, 
voi. II. 18 
