Botanical DESCinprroN.— A pretty large tree, deslitule of spines or prickies, witli rougli bark and few atont bvanchoa. Leavea unequally bipinnal*. Flowers in axillary racemes. Petals white. Legume sis to ten inches long and nearly two inches broad; a little curbed, and of a brown color. Seeds more than half an Inch in diameter. The Qymno- cladus is one of the fairest trees in our Western woods, and is planted as an ornament in the gardens of Europe. A group of tliem stands near Paris, some of whicli are forty feet higli. In their native air they reach even fifty and sixty feet in height, with a stem of twelve or fifteen inches in diameter; even whca standing alone it does not branch out at a height of less than thirty foet ; the top ia formed hy a few but very long branches, and is not wide, but beautifully regular. It flourislies only in tlie best soil, with black walnut, red elm, poplar, blue ash, honey locust, etc. ; has a useful, hard wood, and beara, in some years, an abundance of largo pods, containing two, three or four seeds, of a size of a walnut. Officinal Prepabations. — Tincture of the seeds. AsALoatiES. — Agarieas, u^tliwia. Belladonna, Ciaiita, Hyosciaimis, Loch- mis, Lachnanthea, Solantim nigntm. Stramonium. SCental Sphere. Indifferent to what tranepires. Constantly forgetting.