XXV. LEGUMINA^CEJE : GLEDi'tSCH/^. 



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_i 1. \V. frute'scens Dec. The shrubby Wistaria. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 390.; Don's Mill., 2.p.3-)8. 

 Synonymes. Glycine frutescens Lin. Sp. 1067. ; /I'pios 



frutescens P/t. Ft. Am. Sept. 2. p. 474. ; Anonymos 



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



Gen. Amei-. 2. p. 115.; Thyrsanthus frutescens /liot 



Journ. Acad. Set. Pliilad. ; Phaseoldides Hort. Angl. 



55. ; the Kidneybean Tree. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2103. ; and our Jig. 4J0. 



Spec. Char., i^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. 172+. Flowers 

 bluish purple, sweet-scented, the standard 

 having a greenish yellow spot at the base; 

 July to September. Legume brown ; ripe 

 in October. 



T . iM i. J i_ ^j_* r> .1 410. Wist&ria fhiWscens. 



It IS readily propagated by cuttings or the 

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

 trained against a wall. 



J, 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- 



sequ^Jia 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., Sfc. Wings of the corolla each with 

 one auricle. Ovary villose. Flowers large. 

 (Dec. Prod.) A vigorous-growing deciduous 

 twiner. China. Stem 50 ft. to 120 ft. 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 hardv 

 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 100 ft. 

 on each side of the main stem ; one at Coughton Hall covers 903 superficial 

 feet of walling. 



411. "Wistaria chin6nsis 



Sect. V. Cassie^^, 

 Genus XX. 



SLEDI'TSCH/yi L. The Gleditschia. Lin. Sj/sf. Polygamla Dice'cia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., 1159. ; Lam. 111., p. 8.57.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 479.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 428. 

 Synonymes. .^cicia sp. Flick. ; Ferier, Fr. ; Gleditschie, Ger. ; Gleditsia, Ital. 



