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CorRONILLA EMeRuUs. ScoORPION SENNA. 
Cla/s and Order. 
— DiapevepH1a DEcANDRIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. 241 is: 2: dentibus fuperioribus connatis. Vexillum 
vix alis longius. Legumen ifthmis interceptum, 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
CORONILLA Enmerus fruticofa, pedunculis fubtrifloris, corol- 
larum unguibus calyce triplo longioribus, | 
caule angulato. Lina, Sy/t. Vegetab. ed. 14. 
Murr, p. 669. Ait. Kew, v. 3. p. 57. 
COLUTEA filiquofa /. fcorpioides major. Baub. Pin. p. 1046. 
Authors have given to this plant the name of Scorpion Senna, 
its feed-veffels, from their flender and jointed appearance, bear- 
ing fome refemblance to the tail of a {corpion. 
It is a native of France and Germany, and a very old in- 
habitant of our gardens, having been cultivated by Gerarp — 
in 1596; it is of low and flow growth: there is a fhrub of it 
in the Apothecaries Garden, Chelfea, which grew there in the - 
= of Mirrer, and which now is not more than five feet 
igh, . 4 
In the -nurferies we have obferved two varieties of it, 
one in which the flowers have been tinged with bright red 
inclining to orange and which is by far the moft common, the 
other with flowers wholly yellow, fcarcely worth cultivating. 
slts bloffoms are produced in May and June, and fome- — 
times again in autumn; neatly trained to a wall or paling, it 
makes a beautiful appearance when in flower, the fhortnels of 
its fhoots renders it a very proper obje@ for this purpofe. 
Is propagated by feeds, layers, and cuttings; the firft are 
not produced in any great plenty with us. . 
The leaves by a proper fermentation are faid to produce 
a dye like that of Indigo. ioe = oie 2 
