108 



glaucous, wedge-form, seldom obcordatc, with a small reflex point: 

 the flowers bright yellow, in a roundish bunch: they are remark- 

 ably fragrant during the day. It is a native of the South of 

 France. 



The fifth rises from two to six feet in height (eight or nine in gar- 

 dens): the stem not very straight, branched and brachiale (so weak 

 as sometimes to want support): ihe leaflets three or four pairs, gra- 

 dually larger, almost cordale, glaucous and smooth: the peduncles 

 umbelled, with from three to five yellow flowers. INIiller kept this 

 species under its old name of Emerus, dividing it into greater and 

 kss; the former being common in gardens, but the latter in very few- 

 It is a native of France, flowering in April. 



Culture. — As the first four sorts, and especially the second, are 

 rather lender, though they will succeed in the open air in mild win- 

 ters, they should in common be potted, to be moved to the shelter 

 of a green-house, or glass I'rame, or some place in a sheltered situa- 

 tion in the full ground. The last sorts are hardy and elegant floAver. 

 ing-shrubs, for the clumps and other parts of extensive pleasure- 

 grounds. 



The four first kinds may be increased by seeds sown in the spring, 

 either on a warm border, or in a slender hot-bed; but the latter is 

 the best mode, as it produces them more forward, in pots of rich 

 earth half an inch in depth, plunging them in a hot-bed when ne- 

 cessary. When the plants are two or three inches in height, they 

 should be pricked out in separate small pots, giving shade, Avater, 

 and air, hardening them gradually to the full air, about the middle 

 of summer, in which they may remain till autumn, then removing 

 them to the shelter of a frame during Avinter, covering them oidy in 

 time of frost, or very severe weather. 



The last sort, or Scorpion Senna, may be raised plentifully both 

 by seeds, layers, and cuttings; the seeds being sown in March, in a 

 !)ed of light earth, and covered half an inch deep, giving occasional 

 Avaterings in dry Aveather. When the plants have had one or tAvo 

 years' growth, they should be removed into nursery rows, and in two 



