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4/44. Acacia glandulosa ? Wild.—Mimosa glandulosa 
Mich. —Alimosa virgata Bartr. trav. p. 421. On 
the banks of the Mississippi. Bar tram found his 
M. virgata on the Sea Islands* and his imperfect 
description does not agree altogether with that of 
A. glandulosa: I shall therefore copy it, as it may- 
happen that his species shall prove different. Pe¬ 
rennial plant, sending up many nearly erect stems, 
dividing in many ascending slender branches, with 
double pinnated leaves, of a most delicate forma¬ 
tion. The flowers are of a pale greenish yellow 
forming small oblong heads, upon a long slender 
peduncle : the legumes are large lunated and 
flat, placed in a spiral or contorted manner, each 
containing several hard compressed little beans. 
If different from A. glandulosa it may be charac¬ 
terised as follows : Acacia virgata Raf. Cauli- 
bus erectis ramosis, ramis virgatis, foliis bipinna- 
tis ; capitulis oblongis, longe pedunculatis, legumi- 
nibus lunatis latis depressis contortis. Raf. 
445. Schrankia intsia Wild ?—-Mimosa horridula Mich, 
—Mimosa pudica Bartr. trav. p. 430. Found by 
Bartram, near Manchac on the Mississippi. This 
species is not described by Bartram; he merely 
says, that it grows five or six feet high, rambling 
like briar vines over the fences and shrubs in 
gardens , the inhabitants say it is indigenous, but 
is not found in forests and fields, and resembles 
entirely the M. pudica of the hot houses. It is 
considered as a weed, for w’herever it gets foot¬ 
ing, it spreads itself by its seeds, in so great abuiv 
