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to have the appearance of a four-cornered leaf. The 
leaves are Angle, and wrapped clofe about the flower 1 
ftalk at their bale to a confiderable length ; there are 
feldom more than two of thefe leaves from one root ; 
the ftalk is flender and round, and riles about two feet 
high *, and the top is garnilhed with two flowers, 1 
which are placed two inches and a half afunder on 
the fame fide of the ftalk, each having a fhort fpatha, 
or {heath, embracing the germen and the bafe of the 
tube, which is long, narrow, and recurved, but en- 
larges greatly before it is divided. The upper part 
of the flower is cut into fix equal fegments, which 
end in acute points of a purplifh colour, which form a 
ftripe through the middle of each fegment. The petal 
is of a cream colour, and fades to a lulphur colour 
before it decays. This flowers in June, and fome- 
times the feeds ripen well in England. This may be 
propagated by offsets from the root, or by feeds in 
the fame manner as the fifth fort, and the plants re- 
quire the fame treatment. 
GLANDIFEROUS trees, are fuch trees as bear 
maft, as Acorns, &c. 
GLANDULOUS roots, are fuch roots as grow 
kernel-wife. 
GLA N S is that fort of fruit which is contained within 
a fmooth, but hard bark, having but one feed ; jts 
hinder parts covered with a kind of cup, the fore- 
part being bare, as Acorns ; but it is properly the 
fruit without the cup. 
GLASTENBURY THORN. See Mespilus. 
GLAUCIUM. See Chelidonium. 
GLAUX, Sea Chickweed, or Milkwort, and black 
Saltwort, is a low trailing perennial plant, with leaves 
fomewhat like Chickweed, but of a thickerconfiftence, 
which fit clofe to the ftalks. The flowers come out 
from the bofom of the leaves ; they are white, and 
like thofe of Chickweed. This is feldom cultivated in 
gardens, fo I fhall not trouble the reader with a fur- 
ther account of it. This grows upon the fea-£hores in 
rnoft parts of England. 
G LE CHOMA, Ground Ivy, Gill go by the Ground, 
Ale-hoof, or Turn-hoof. 
This plant grows naturally under hedges, and upon 
the fides of banks in moft parts of England, fo is 
rarely cultivated in gardens, for which reafon I fhall 
pafs over it, with barely mentioning it here. 
GLEDITSIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1025. Acacia. Raii 
Meth. 1 6 1 . Honey Locuft, or three-thorned Acacia. 
The Characters are. 
It hath male and hermaphrodite flowers in the fame 
katkin , and female flowers in different plants. I’ he male 
katkins are long , compadl , and cylindrical , and have each 
a three-leaved fmall empalement they have three roundifh 
petals , which fpread open in form of a cup •, thefe have 
a turbinated neciarium , whofe mouth afterward grows to 
the parts of f r unification \ they have fix flender flamina , 
which are longer than the petals , terminated by oblong 
compreffed fummits. I he hermaphrodite flowers in the 
fame katkin , are fituated at the end ; thefe have empale- 
ment s, petals , and flamina like the male , and have a ger- 
men , ftyle , and feeds like the female, which are fituated on 
different trees , and are difpofed iu a loofe katkin ; thefe 
have a five-leaved empalement, and have five oblong petals, 
with two fhort thread-like neclariums , and a broad ger- 
men longer than the petals , fupporting a fhort reflexed ftyle, 
crowned by a thick ftigma. The germen afterward be- 
comes a large flat pod, with fever al tranfverfe partitions , 
having a pulp in each divifion, furrounding one hard ronnd- 
iflh feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feciion 
of Linnaeus’s twenty-third clafs, intitled Polygamia 
Bioeceia, which includes thofe plants which have male 
and hermaphrodite flowers in the fame plant, and 
female flowers in different plants. 
The Species are, 
2. Gleditsia ( 'Triacanthus ) fpinis triplicibus axillaribus. 
Lin. Sp. 1509. Gleditfa with three thorns on the fide of 
the branches. /Acacia Americana Abruas folio triacan- 
thos, five ad axillas foliorum, fpina triplici donata. 
Pluk. Mant. 1. Three-thorned ffmerican Acacia. 
i. Gleditsia (Inerniis) fpinis paucioribus, fdlis bipiri- 
nads, filiquis ovalibus. . Gleditfia with fewer fpines, 
winged leaves , and oval pods. Acacia Abruas folio tri- 
acanthos, capfu'la ovali unicum femen ciaudente. Ca- 
tefb. Car. r. p. 43. Three-thorned Acacia with an Ab~ 
rus leaf \ and an oval pod containing one feed. 
Thefe trees grow naturally in America ; the firft 
fort is very common in moft parts of North America, 
where it is known by the title of Honey Locuft ; this 
has been many years cultivated in the Engliih gardens, 
and is known among the gardeners by the title of 
three-thorned Acacia. It rifes with an ered trunk 
to the height of thirty or forty feet, and is armed with 
long Ipines, which have two or three fmalier coming 
out from the fide, and are frequently produced in 
clufters at the knots on the ftems of the trees , they 
are fometimes three or four inches long. The 
branches of this tree are alfo armed with the fame fort 
of fpines, and are garnilhed with winged leaves, com- 
pofed of ten pair of fmall leaves which fit clofe to 
the midrib, and are of a lucid green. The flowers 
come out from the fide of the young branches in 
katkins they 'are of an herbaceous colour, fo make 
no figure. The hermaphrodite flowers arefucceeded 
by pods near a foot and a half long, and two inches 
broad, divided into many cells by tranfverfe parti- 
tions, each containing one fmooth, hard, oblong feed, 
furrounded by a fweet pulp. 
The leaves of this tree feldom come out till June 
in this country, and the flowers appear the latter end 
of July, but they do not flower till they are of a large 
fize : there was one tree in the Chelfea garden which 
produced flowers feveral years, and there is one mow 
growing in the Bifliop of London’s garden at Ful- 
ham,, which produced pods in the year 1728, and 
came to their full lize, but the feeds did not ripen. 
The fecond fort hath much the appearance of the 
firft, but it hath fewer fpines. The leaves are fmalier, 
and the pods are oval, containing but one feed ; 
this was difcovered by the late Mr. Catefby, in Ca- 
rolina, from whence he fent the feeds to England, 
by the title of Water Acacia, by which it is known 
in the gardens. 
Thefe trees are propagated by feeds, which muft be 
procured from America, where the trees grow natu- 
rally ; thofe of the firft fort are annually lent to Eng- 
land in plenty, by the title of Locuft, or Honey Lo- 
cuft, to diftinguilh it from the falfe Acacia, which is 
frequently called Locuft-tree in America ; thefe feeds 
may be fown upon a bed of light earth in the fpring, 
burying them half an inch deep ; and if the fpring 
fhould prove dry, they muft be frequently watered, 
otherwile the plants will not come up the firft year, 
for I have fometimes had the feeds remain two years 
in the ground before they have come up ; therefore 
thofe who are defirous to fave time, fhould fow the 
feeds as foon as they arrive, and plunge the pots into 
a moderate hot-bed, obferving to water them fre- 
quently ; by this method moft of the plants will come 
up the fame feafon, but thefe fhould be gradually 
inured to bear the open air, for if they are continued 
in the hot-bed, they will draw up weak ; during the 
fummer feafon, thofe plants in pots will require fre- 
quent waterings, but thofe in the full ground will 
not dry fo fall, therefore need no water, unlefs the 
feafon fhould prove very dry. In autumn, thofe in 
the pots fhould be placed under a hot-bed frame to 
protect them from froft, for thefe young plants ge- 
nerally keep growing late in the fummer, fo the up- 
per part of their (hoots is tender, and the early frofts 
of the autumn often kill the ends of them, if they 
are not protefited, and this frequently occafions great 
part of the lhoots decaying in winter ; for which rea- 
fon thofe plants in the full ground fnould be co- 
vered with mats in autumn, on the firft appearance 
of froft •, for a fmall froft in autumn will do more 
mifchief to thefe young lhoots which are full of flip, 
than fevere froft when the (hoots are hardened. 
The following fpring the plants may be tranfplanted 
into nurfery-beds, at a foot diftance row from row, 
and. 
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