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cases. It lias been remarked, that horses that have been hard- 
Avorked, and then turned out into pasture, are the most apt to 
suffer in this manner; Avhereas the occurrence scai'cely ever 
takes place among breeding stock. The remedies usually em- 
ployed are saline purgatives to carry off the noxious matter ; 
and alkaline and earthy solutions to absorb the carbonic acid, 
as soon as it is generated. 
As a timber, the wood is very hard. It is not, howe\’er, 
adapted to saw into planks or boards, from the stem being 
very much twisted and crooked. It is sometimes split into 
shingles, which are very durable; but the holes for the nails 
require to be bored. The principal use of the Avood is for 
fuel, being the best adapted for that purpose of any that is 
made use of ; and, from its being of rapid groAvth, a constant 
supply can be obtained. 
BroAvne has erroneously called this the Poponax, and in this 
he has been folloAved by Lunan. 
XXXIX. Acacia. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx 4-5 -toothed. Petals 
4-5, either free, or united into a 4-5-fid corolla. 
Stamens varying in number from 10 to 200. Legume 
continuous, juiceless, bivalved. 
Shrubs or trees; floAvers yelloAA’, white, or more rarely red, 
capitate or spiked, Avith the stamens monadelphous or free — 
Name, the Greek designation of one of the species. 
# Leaves bipinnate ; pinncc 1 -paired. 
1. # Acacia pilosa. Hairy Acacia. 
Spines subaxillary patulous straight, stipules lan- 
ceolate striated erect, leaflets 13-jugate linear obtuse, 
petiole very short eglandulose and, as also the branches, 
pilose. — He Cand. 
Bertero, De Cand. Prod. II. 455. 
HAB. and FL. ? 
2. * Acacia salinarum. Seaside Acacia. 
Spines solitary straight at the sides of the bud, 
leaflets of each pinna 12-20-jugate linear obtuse, and, 
as also the branches and corolla, glabrous, a glandule 
at the apex of the petiole and between the leaflets, 
spikes solitary peduncled. — De Cand. 
Mimosa salinarum, Vahl. Eel. III. 35. 
