LEGUMINOSiE 



SIBERIAN PEA TREE, Caragana arborescens. 



Gardens, shrubberies. April, May. Thrives in sandy soil, and in dry, 

 gravelly situations, and succeeds better than most shrubs in smoky districts. 

 Propagated by cuttings of roots inserted 3 ins. deep outdoors in October; 

 layers of strong shoots in September ; seeds sown outdoors in November 

 or March. Used as a stock for grafting in March. 



Flowers yellow, papilionaceous, in a fascicle; pedicels 1 -flowered ; Calyx 

 cylindrical teeth acute. Claws of petals nearly as long as calyx ; standard 

 broad, edges reflexed ; keel obtuse, equal in length to wings and standard ; 

 Stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform ; style glabrous, stigma terminal, minute. 

 Fruit a legume, linear, valves convex, glabrous, 2 ins. long. 



Leaves alternate, paripinnate, leaflets 8-14, oval-oblong, villous, mucronate ; 

 petiole unarmed : stipules spinescent. 



A deciduous tree, 15-20 ft.; Branches olive-green; Buds chaffy. 



Introduced from Siberia, 1752. Called Caragan by the Monguls. 



SCORPION SENNA, Coronilh Emcrus. 



Gardens. April — -September. Needs well-drained soil and sunny position, 

 doing well on rockwork. Propagated by cuttings in well-drained pots of sandy 

 soil under bell-glass, March-May ; seeds in light soil in heat in March. 



Flowers bright yellow, reddish before opening, papilionaceous, in 3-5 

 flowered umbels on axillary peduncles ; Petals with long narrow claw ; Fruit 

 a lomentum, cylindrical. 



Leaves alternate on young shoots, crowded together on other parts, 

 imparipinnate, 2 ins. long, leaflets small, 5-9, obovate or oblong, mucronate, 

 entire, odd leaflet largest. 



A deciduous shrub, 4-6 ft. ; sub-evergreen in mild seasons ; Shoots slender, 

 green, angled ; Buds flattened, darkened, hirsute. 



Native of S. Europe; introduced 1596. Generic name from L. corona, 



a crown, in reference to the umbellate inflorescence. 



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