LEGUMINOSiE. 126 LUPINUS. 



Celtic gen, Fr. genet, a small, bushy shrub. Leaves simple. Flowers yel- 

 low. Leg\ime many-seeded. 



G. tincto'ria. 



Leare5 lanceolate, smooth ; IramchesrownA, striate, unarmed, erect;, legumes 

 smooth. A naturalized species, found occasionally in dry, hilly grounds. 

 Stems or branches numerous, ascending or erect, a foot high, from long, 

 woody, creeping roots. Leaves sessile, alternate. Flowers bright yellow, 

 axillary, sessile or nearly so, solitary. The whole plant dyes yellow, and with 

 woad, green. Aug. Fer. Dyers Broom. Wood Waxen. 



28. CERCIS. 



Corolla scarcely papilionaceous; wings longer than the 

 banner; keel 2-petale(i ; caljx 5toothed; pod compressed, 

 with the seed-bearing suture winged; seeds obovatc. 



Gr. )t£gx.t5, a weaver's shuttle;, from the resemblance of the pods. Trees, 

 with simple cordate leaves- and rose-colored flowers. 



C. Canade'nsis. 



Leaves cordate, acuminate. A handsome tree, 20 or 30 feet high. Tlie 

 leaves are round, heart-shaped, pointed, hairy at the axils of the nerves, with 

 minute stipules. The flowers are abundant^and having an agreeable poignan- 

 cy of flavor, are picked and used as salad in Canada. The wood is finely 

 veined with black and green, and receives a fine polish. The young twigs 

 will dye wool of a nankeen color. The old author Gerard, in compliance with 

 liie popular notion of his time, says "Tliis is the tree v;hereon Judas did hang 

 himself, and not upon the elder-tree as it is said." Blossoms in May. 



Judas Tree, 



29. LUPI'NUS, 



Stanr>en3 nnonadelphous ; caljx deeply bilabiate, upper lip 

 2-cleft or toothed; anthers alternately rounded and oblong; 

 legume coriaceous, swelling at the seeds. 



Lat. hivus, a wolf; because this plant overruns the soil, and devoais as it 

 were all its fertility. — Herba, with palmate, 5 — 15-foliate leaves. 



1. L. PERENMS. 



i?oo< creeping, perennial; haves digitate; ^ower* alternate ; ad yxes vj'iih- 

 out appendages, upper lip emarginate, lower entire. Grows wild abundantly 

 in sandy woods and hills, particularly about Lake Champlain. It is a beauti- 

 ful plant, much cultivated in gardens. It is often called sun-dial, from the 

 curious circumstance of its leaves turning to face the sun from morning till 

 nio-ht. Stem erect, soft, smoothish, a foot high. Leaves soft, downy, on long 

 stalks. Leaflets 7 — 9, arranged in a stellate manner, lanceolate, broadest 

 above the middle. Flower&blae, varying to white, in a terminal spike or ra- 

 ceme. May. Jurse. Per. Co-mmou Lupine. 



2. L. NoOTKATE'iNSlS. 



Cfl/yi whorled, without appcntlagc ; lorcer Up entire; stem nnd leaves hany. 

 A tall, handsome plant from iNootka Sound, very ornamental for the garden. 

 Stem herbaceous, erect, hairy, C feet high. Leaves digitate, on long stalks^ 



