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1. V. LU V TEA Michx. The yellow -wooded Virgilia, or Yellow Wood. 



Identification. Michx. Fil. Arb. Amer., 3. p. 266. t. 3. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 98. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 1 12. 

 Engravings. Delaun. Herb. Amat., t. 197. ; Michx. Fil. Arb. Amer., 3. p. 226. t. 3. ; the plate of 

 this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. v. ; and our fig. 296. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 9 1 1 ; alternate, ovate, pointed, 

 smooth. A deciduous tree. North America. On the mountains of Cum- 

 berland, and the Mississippi. Height in America 40ft.; 10ft. to 20ft. in 

 England. Introduced in 1812. Flowers yellowish white, in pendulous 

 racemes ; June to August. Pods never produced in England. Decaying 

 leaves rich yellow. Naked young wood yellowish brown. 

 The leaves, on young trees, are from 1 ft. to 1| ft. in length, and on old trees 

 not above half that size. The flowers form white pendulous racemes, a little 

 larger than those of the RobimVz Pseud- Jcacia, but not so odoriferous. The 

 seeds are like those of the robinia, and, in America, ripen about the middle 



29C. Virgflia l&tea. 



of August. In Britain, the tree has flowered in the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 

 den, and at Hylands in Essex, but has not yet produced pods. An open airy 

 situation is desirable, in order that the tree may ripen its wood; and, to fa- 

 cilitate the same purpose where the climate is cold, the soil ought to be dry 

 rather than rich. In the London nurseries, it is propagated chiefly by Ame- 

 rican seeds, but it will doubtless grow by cuttings of the roots. 



GENUS III. 



PIPTA'NTHUS Swt. THE PIPTANTHUS. Lin. Syst. Decandria 

 Monogynia. 



Identification. Swt. Fl.-Gard., 264. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 112. 



Derivation. From piptd, to fall, and anthos, a flower ; from the flowers falling off very soon. 



