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acc burnt with fire,being ufed with the white of «n egge : it fervethalfo lor Limmers to fatten their colours 
for Dyers alfo in their Dying,for inke,and many other externall civil! nfes. 
Certaine other thorny Indian trees,bearing cods. 
•v-«g«r-. Have certaine Indian Thorny trees to bring to your confideration that oeare cods, whereof forne have 
btene entitled Acacia, but 1 call Pfcndoacacta : Another very like thereunto, called by our Colony 
1 in Virginia,Locw: w hereunto I have ad joyned a third which hath growne with us,and a fourth cal- 
) led the Corall iree, and becaufe they are diticrmg much from thole in the former Chapter, 1 have 
' thought it fit to make a Chapter of them peculiarly. . 
I . ‘F ft ndonc acta Americana Robinu Robinw bis falfe Acacia or America. 
Prranfe 7 acobm Cornnm in his Booke of Canada pbnrs., hath cntitnlcd this tree Acacia , although with little 
mdvemen/ 1 have given it a place with another Z/< rginia like it, but not withthe true ones as is moil ht. The 
hndvTfaithhe) is lmooth, covered with a comely lmooth blackifh barke, without any thornes thereon at all, 
fpr/ad nvthe tmes and branches very farre, which while they ate young are pithy within.bcietw.thmanycr- 
tll n!arne°thornes, flat at the botromc, ending in a ftnall tharpe point: thelcavesare many let on bothfides ot a 
middle ribbe from fcven or eight, to tenne or more on a fide, and an odde one at the end, each leafe touk mg it 
ft Moubfe every evening upon Sunne felting, and opening againe upon the tiling s the flowers are white 
fomewhat like PeTe blolTomes, or thofe of Cjtifm Tree Trefoile.many let together on a fialke,(landing upright 
and not hanging downe, (hewing themftlves in rAagajl, after which follow hard rough prickly pods, but I 
and Others had from Robin m fuch linooth pods as is exprefled in the figure,under the other , in each w 
encloftd one or two (mall browne LcnriU-like feedes. By this delci.pt.on you may plainely tee how much t 
diff retb both from tfe true Aetna oi Tito;'corides, and the oth, r American of Aldmm, having nothing thc,ein fc “ c 
thornM^arfwerabft ; and therefore in my judgement it doth better agree with feme Sparinm^ojam, then A- 
,Irut th ^ fill quo fa fir einen (is fpinoft, Locm mftratibiu diRa. The Virginian Locus tree, 
A verv like tree hereunto hath beene ient and brought us out of Virginia, growing to be a very great tree, 
nd of anexceedin" height with Maker Trodefcant, whole body is covered with a lmooth barke,the young ra . 
ches being gtecne,and fet with fomewhat fharpe prickles at every joynt, where the winged leaves come forth. 
r. A ibor JtliqaoJj y»*inenjitf(>inofa Loan nortratibiudiffa. 
Tlx Virginia L'xus tree. 
