. Nos arbres indigènes et la façon de les identifier ; une étude de leurs habitudes populaires et leurs particularités. Les arbres. Famille des pois étamines.-dix, cinq longues et cinq courts, libre, inclus des filaments ; thread-like ; anthères de couleur orange, iiitrorse ; dans les petites fleurs pistillées et stérile. Pistil.-Ovaire supérieur, sessiles, velues, contracté dans un style court, avec deux lobes stigmatiques ; les ovules dans deux lignes. Fruits.-légumineuse, six à dix pouces de long, un mois et demi à deux pouces de large, un peu courbé, avec marges épaissies, brun rougeâtre foncé avec de légères fleurs glauques, couronnés de vestige de la styles. S

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. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. PEA FAMILY Stamens.—Ten, five long and five short, free, included ; filaments thread-like ; anthers orange colored, iiitrorse ; in the pistillate flower small and sterile. Pistil.—Ovary superior, sessile, hairy, contracted into a short style, with two stigmatic lobes ; ovules in two rows. Fruit.—Legume, six to ten inches long, one and one-half to two inches wide, somewhat curved, with thickened margins, dark reddish brown with slight glaucous bloom, crowned with remnant of the styles. Stalks an inch or two long. Seeds six to nine, surrounded by a thick layer of dark, sweet pulp. When Kentucky was first settled by the adventurous pioneers from the Atlan- tic states who commenced their career in the primeval wilderness, almost with- out the necessaries of life, except as they produced them from the fertile soil, they fancied that they had discovered a substitute for coffee in the seeds of this tree ; and accordingly the name of Coffee-tree was bestowed upon it. But when communication was established with the sea-ports, they gladly relinquished their Kentucky beverage for the more grateful flavor of the Indian l^erry ; and no use is at present made of it in that manner. —.'. J. Downing.. This is another of the solitary trees of our flora. It grows north as far as Montreal and south to the limits of Arkansas, nevertheless one may be a student of forest trees many years ere one finds the Kentucky Coffee-tree growing on its native li i 11 s. In pleasure grounds it is not uncom- mon, since it is often planted because of its unique appearance and interesting character. Like the Sumach it is wholly destitute of fine spray, its smaller l)ranches are thick, blunt, clumsy and lumpish. Other trees lose their leaves but along their twigs and branchlets are borne the buds, the hope and the promise of the coming year. But the Gyiniiocladns seems so destitute of thes

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