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_ 1. W. FRUTE'SCENS Dec. The shrubby Wistaria. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 390.; Don's Mill., 2. p.348. 

 Synonymes. Glycine frutescens Lin. Sp. 1067. : A'pios 



frut^scens Ph. Ft. Am. Sept. 2. p. 474. ; Anonymos 



frutescens Watt. Fl. Car. 186. ; Wistaria speciosa Nutt. 



Gen. Amer. 2. p. 115.; Thyrsanthus frutescens Elliot 



Journ. Acad. Set. Philad. ; Phaseololdes Hort. Angl. 



55. ; the Kidneybean Tree. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2103. ; and our fig. 4JO. 



Spec. Char., $c. Wings of the corolla each 

 with two auricles. Ovary glabrous. Flow- 

 ers odorous. (Dec. Prod.} An elegant 

 deciduous climber. Virginia, Carolina, 

 and the Illinois, in boggy places. Stem 

 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introd. 1724. Flowers 

 bluish purple, sweet-scented, the standard 

 having a greenish yellow spot at the base; 

 July to September. Legume brown ; ripe 

 in October. 



T . ,., . / T 410- WistAria frutescens. 



It is readily propagated by cuttings of the 



root and by layers, and forms a very ornamental climber, especially when 

 trained against a wall. 



_ 2. W. CHINE'NSIS Dec. The Chinese Wistaria. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 390. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 348. 



Synonymes. Glycine chinensis Bot. Mag. t. 2083. ; G. sinensis Bot. Reg. t 650. ; Wistaria Con- 



sequkrca Loudon Gard. Mag. vol. ii. p. 422., and Hort. Brit. 

 Engravings. Swt. Brit. Fl.-Gard., t 211. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2083. ; Bot. Reg., t. 660.; Bot. Cab., 



t. 773. ; and our fig. 4W. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Wings of the corolla each with 

 one auricle. Ovary villose. Flowers large. 

 (Dec. Prod.} A vigorous-growing deciduous 

 twiner. China. Stem 50ft. to 120ft. In- 

 troduced in 1816. Flowers pale bluish purple; 

 May and June, and sometimes producing a se- 

 cond crop of flowers in August. Legume?. 

 The flowers are larger than those of W. fru- 

 tescens : they are disposed in longer and looser 



racemes, and are somewhat paler in colour. On 



established plants they are produced in great 



abundance ; but they have not yet been succeeded 



by legumes in England. This plant may truly be 



considered the most magnificent of all our hardy 



deciduous climbers. It will grow wherever the 



common laburnum will flourish; but, as its flowers 



are somewhat more tender than those of that 



tree, they are more liable to be injured by frosts in very late springs. A plant 



in the Hort. Soc. Garden, against a wall, extends its branches above 1 00 ft. 



on each side of the main stem ; one at Coughton Hall covers 905 superficial 



feet of walling. 



411. Wisteria chininsis 



Sect. V. CASSIE^E. 

 GENUS XX. 



GLEDI'TSCH/,4 L. THE GLEDITSCHIA. Lin. Syst. Polygamia Dice'cia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., 1159. ; Lara. 111., p. 857.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 479. ; Don's Mill, 2. p. 428. 

 Synonymes. Acacia sp. Pluk. ; Fevier, Fr. ; Gleditschie, Ger. ; Glediteia, Ital. 



