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Warley Place, there are fine bushes growing on the sunny side of walls 

 and against hothouse walls. In such places its glaucous, pinnate leaves 

 and umbels of rich yellow flowers make it charming, but on the whole 

 it must be regarded as needing winter protection in most parts of the 

 country. 



C. EMEROIDES, Boissier. 



A deciduous shrub, 4 or 5 ft. high, with angled branches. Leaves in two 

 opposite rows, pinnate, composed usually of seven leaflets ; leaflets obovate, 

 4 to f in. long, with a few appressed hairs or quite smooth. Flowers borne in 

 an umbel at the end of a stalk 2 to 3 ins. long, with from four to eight 

 (oftenest five) flowers in the umbel ; each flower \ to f in. long. Petals yellow, 

 with a long claw ; calyx in. long, cup-shaped. ~Pod 2 to 3 ins. long, slender, 

 round and jointed, each segment containing one seed. 



Native of Greece, Crete, and other parts of S.E. Europe, also Syria. It is 

 nearly allied and very similar to the well-known C. Emerus, in habit, leaf, 

 colour and shape of flower. But it is distinguished by having seven instead 

 of nine as the usual number, of leaflets, by its longer-stalked umbels, and by 

 the more numerous flowers in each. It commences to flower in May or June, 

 and continues for several months. 



C. EMERUS, Linnceus. SCORPION SENNA. 



(Bot. Mag., L 445.) 



A deciduous shrub, 7 to 9 ft. high, and as much through, of elegant habit. 

 Branchlets angled, grooved, and smooth. Leaves i to 2^ ins. long, alternate, 



? innate, distichous, composed usually of seven or nine leaflets, which are obovate, 

 to | in. long, slightly downy when young. Flowers borne on slender stalks, 

 i to 2 ins. long, springing from the leaf-axils, and carrying not more than three 

 flowers at the top. These are yellow, in. long, and distinct on account of the 

 long claw to each petal ; the standard petal has a reddish brown line down 

 the back. Pods 2 ins. long, very slender, round, and jointed into several 

 portions, each portion containing one seed. 



Native of Central and S. Europe ; cultivated in England for more than three 

 centuries. This is a very pleasing, graceful shrub, which begins to flower in 

 May and continues until October. The popular name refers to the slender 

 articulated seed-pod, -which is compared to a scorpion's tail. It is very 

 abundant as an undergrowth in thin woodland, in some places along the 

 French and Italian Riviera. 



C. JUNCEA, Linnaus. 



A curious shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, with round, rush-like, somewhat hollow, 

 zigzag, much-forked branches. Leaves f to i^ ins. long, pinnate, composed 

 of five or seven leaflets, which are narrow, oblong, \ to \ in. long, the common 

 stalk flattened Flowers yellow, \ in. long, arranged in often globose umbels 

 produced from the leaf-axils, each umbel carrying six to twelve flowers. Seed- 

 pods very slender, about I in. long. 



Native of S. Europe ; introduced, according to Aiton, in 1656, but always 

 rare on account of its tenderness. It has succeeded against a wall in the 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden, but except in some such warm corner its tenure 

 is precarious. 



