ROSACEA 



JUDAS TREE, Cercis Siliquastrum. 



Gardens, shrubberies. Thrives in rich sandy loam, and best on a wall 

 in cold localities. This is one of the oldest of exotic trees, and is a most 

 beautiful object in May, when its twigs, and even large branches and trunk, 

 are wreathed with rose-purple flowers, while later on its long red-brown pods 

 form a striking contrast with the bluish-green foliage. May, June. 



Flowers rose-purple, papilionaceous, -j? in. long, appearing before leaves 

 are fully developed ; buds pale red ; pedicels 1-flowered. arising from trunk 

 and branches in densely-crowded fascicles ; Fruit a legume, thin, flat, 4-6 

 ins. long, red-brown ; seeds rarely ripening in this country. 



Leaves alternate, simple, cordate, irregular, somewhat reniform, obtuse, 

 emarginate, glabrous, bluish-green, petioles long. 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, 20-35 ft. ; Branches erect, head flat, 

 spreading ; Bark rough, furrowed ; Lenticels numerous ; Buds obtuse, scales 

 brown ; Wood hard, marked with black, green, and yellow on a grey ground ; 

 susceptible of high polish. 



Native of S. Europe and W. Asia; cultivated by Gerard in 1596. Called 

 also Red-bud and Love-tree. Generic name from Gr. kerMs, a shuttlecock, 

 name given by Theophrastus. Specimen at Bath possibly 300 years old. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division II. . . Calyciflorce 



Natural Order . . . Rosacece 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with usually alternate, stipulate leaves, sometimes 



glandularly serrate, simple or compound ; stipules usually 2, petioles often 



glandular ; Flowers usually regular and hermaphrodite, mostly red, white, or 



yellow ; Calyx usually inferior, gamosepalous, and 5-lobed, with the odd lobe 



posterior ; imbricate, and persistent, sometimes with an epicalyx ; a disk 



usually lining the calyx or surrounding the orifice ; Petals as many as calyx- 



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