LEGUMINOSAE. 151 
WISTERIA. Wistaria. 
(Family Leguminosae). 
Woody twiners: deciduous. 
Stems moderate, somewhat fluted: 
_ pith moderate, white or becoming 
brown, round, continuous. Buds 
moderate, solitary, sessile, nar- 
rowly oblong, very acute, nearly 
surrounded by the outer scale. 
Leaf-scars alternate, transversely 
elliptical, much raised and with a 
horn- or wart-like prominence at 
each side: bundle-trace 1, trans- 
verse: stipule-scars lacking. 
Winter-character references:— 
Wisteria brachybotrys. Shirasawa, 
260, pl. 7. W. polystachya. Schnei- 
der, f. 81. 
The different species of Wiste- 
ria are not easily named except 
when they are in flower. The 
most beautiful of them are the 
Asiatic species, W. sinensis and 
W. floribunda, the latter especially extensively grown near 
the coast; in the interior the native species, of which W. 
macrostachys is one, succeed better, though they are far less 
attractive. 
Wisteria, or Wistaria as it was intended to be written 
and as it has passed into popular parlance, was named in 
honor of Dr. Caspar Wistar, one of a number of American 
physicians forming the subject of a little volume on some 
American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical 
nomenclature, published in Troy by Dr. Howard A. Kelley in 
1914. 
Stems somewhat retrorsely hairy. W. macrostachys. 
