The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . e arm, and covered with a dark-brownbark ; the branches are smooth, round, and ash-colored below ; ex-cessively elongated, climbing, and clinging tenaciously to every thing^vithin their reach by their copious, small hooked prickles, of extra-ordinary rapid growtii, quickly reaching to the top of any lo
The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . e arm, and covered with a dark-brownbark ; the branches are smooth, round, and ash-colored below ; ex-cessively elongated, climbing, and clinging tenaciously to every thing^vithin their reach by their copious, small hooked prickles, of extra-ordinary rapid growtii, quickly reaching to the top of any lofty treenithin their neighborhood, which if unchecked, they soon, by theirluxuriance, completely over-run ; sulcated towards the ends, whichwith all other parts of the plant, while young, are densely but minute-ly pubescent, or rather velvety, and of a rich tawny, or golden ferrug-inous color; tlie leaves are very beautiful, and feathery, of a brightgreen, subdeflexed, and five or six inches long; petioles about aninch long, with a sugary gland below the middle, velvety or downylike the rachides, which have from two to four similar glands be-tween the ultimate pairs of pinnce—the lowest however, placedalways a little below the origin of the pinnce; the petioles are gen- Vol. iv.— cui : A ^>?^^^r^>u^/. NAT. ORDER. LEGDMINOS^. 147 erally unamied, but the rachides are prickly beneath ; leaflets fromsixteen to twenty, and generally an odd one at the lower side of thebase of each pinnos; narrow, almost linear, acute, very unequal at thebase, or subdimidiate; and sdpells minute, linear at the origin of thepinnoe ; stipules deciduous ; panicles from six inches to a foot long, sub-cylindrical or thyrsiform, their main stems prickly, at first terminal, buttheir ends ultimately shoot out into a branch; j^edimcles full an inchlong, round, unarmed, covered with a fulvous or golden brown toinen-tum, patent, divaricate, singly or in bunches of from two to six fromeach axil; br
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