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CO RON ILL A VALENTINA. RUE-LEAVED 



CORONILLA. 



■ij c $ ft fr & ♦,♦♦.♦. fr ♦ fr $ £ s He-sMMhE 



Clafs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cal. 2-labiatus : r : dentibus fuperioribus connatis. Fexillmi 

 vix alis longius. Lcgumen ifthmis interceptum. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



CORONILLA valentina fruticofa, foliolis fubnovenis, fti- 



pulis fuborbiculatis. Linn. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 



14. Murr. p. 669. Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 3. p. 58. 

 POLYGALA valentina. Qnf. hijl. pi. rar. p. 98. fig. inf. 



The Coronilla valentina comes very near to the glauca already 

 figured in this work, but may be diftinguifhed by a little at- 

 tention ; the valentina has fmaller leaves, which are more nu- 

 merous, and more truly glaucous ; the flipulse, which in the 

 glauca are final 1, narrow, and pointed, in the valentina are 

 large, and almoft round, and in the young plant are ftrikingly 

 confpicuous ; as the plant comes into flower, they drop off ; 

 the valentina is not fo much difpofed to flower the year through 

 as the glauca, but produces its blolfoms chiefly in May, June, 

 and July; the flowers of the glauca are obferved to fmell 

 more ftrongly in the day-time, thofe of the valentina at all 

 times difFufe a very powerful odour, fo as even to fcentafmall 

 greenhoufe; we have often been amufed with hearing the dif- 

 ferent opinions entertained of this fmell, fome fpeaking of it 

 in terms of rapture, others ready to faint when they approach 

 it : the flowers of the valentina are more difpofed to produce 

 feed-veflels than thofe of the glauca, the feeds of which ufually 

 ripen well, and afford the means of increafing the plant moft 

 readily. To have a fucceffion of fmall handfome bufhy plants 

 for the greenhoufe, the old ones muft either be frequently 

 <;ut down, or young ones raifed from feed, or cuttings, the 

 flems as they grow up becoming naked at bottom. 



It is a hardy greenhoufe plant, and may be kept well enough 

 through the winter in a common hot-bed frame, or planted 

 againft a fouth wall, and matted as myrtles ufually are in 

 fuch fituations ; we have known the glauca, treated in this way, 

 prove a charming ornament. 



It is a native of Spain, growing, as Clusius informs us, 

 by road-fides, in fandy places, and on the declivities of hills- 

 Cultivated here in 1656, by J. Trad esc ant, jun. H. A. 



