ARBORETUM NOTES 13 
LEGUMINOSZ. 
between Terracina and Fondi), it has been always Cercis 
in the form of a bush. Edward* tells me that the 
same is the case in Greece, where it is one of the 
most common of plants over all the wild un- 
cultivated lands. 
The modern Greeks, according to Sibthorp, 
call it by the name Kotzoukounari ;—a name of 
which it is difficult to guess the origin. Kerkis, 
which Linnzeus adopted (in its Latinized form of 
Cercis), as the name of the genus, appears, 
according to Liddell and Scott, to be a name of 
doubtful application; some suppose it to have 
meant the aspen poplar, others this Judas tree. 
This is now a favourite object of cultivation in the 
gardens and public walks of France and Italy, and 
certainly nothing can be more ornamental when in 
flower. At Paris, in April, 1857, we saw the 
gardens full of it, making a most beautiful show ; 
and when we travelled through France in April, 
1866, we observed it to be the great ornament of 
all the gardens along the line of railway from 
Chalons to Lyons and thence southward. 
Our Judas trees here flower well in favourable 
seasons (but we are seldom here to see them) ; 
and some of them bear abundance of pods, 
especially the large one in the arboretum, which is 
near a wall. The branches of this one are at 
present (October, 1868), loaded with seed vessels. 
* His brother, Edward Herbert Bunbury. 
