Excerpt from North American Flora, Vol. 23: Part I; (Rosales) Mimosaceae Legume thin or papery. Trees or shrubs armed with stipular spines; legume promptly dehiscent. Unarmed trees; legume dehiscent or indehiscent. Legume longitudinally dehiscent. Or indehiscent. Mgume indehiscent. At length breaking transversely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.