Cercis 
Siliquastrum 
Cercis 
Canadensis 
14 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
LEGUMINGS7. 
I have not yet ascertained whether the seeds are 
actually ripened. The pods are remarkably flat 
and thin, like leaves, and some which have been ~ 
given me from Constantinople are as thin as those 
produced here. 
The leaves of the Cercis are (at least apparently) 
of a form very unusual in the Leguminous order ; 
but it is probable that we may consider them 
as not really simple and single, but formed of two 
leaflets united throughout their length. They 
would then be analagous to the leaves of the great 
tropical genus Bauhinia, to which Cercis is, as Mr. 
Bentham remarked to me, in other respects nearly 
allied. Bauhinia has leaves composed of two 
leaflets, which in some of the species are quite 
distinct, but in most are united for more or less of 
their length, so as to produce the appearance 
of a two-lobed leaf; and the arrangement of the 
principal veins is much the same as in Cercis. 
At this season (October 22), I observe that one 
can easily distinguish on the branches of the 
Cercis the buds from which flowers will proceed 
next spring. They are of a red colour, and 
are seated on the small branches, below the leaves 
of this year. 
Crercis CANADENSIS,—Loudon, v. 2, 659. 
One, in the arboretum, planted 1826. It has 
the same general form of growth (between shrub 
