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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



Spec. Char., $c. Shrubby, dwarf, rather glabrous. Leaflets elliptical, mucro- 

 nulate. Calvx glabrous, all its teeth setaceously acuminate. Legume 1- 



- ... *%. *& \. i ., p i_ i 



304 



It was introduced in 1811, by Mr. Lyon; but it is not common in col 

 lections. 



at 4. A, (F.) FRA^GRANS Sweet. The fragrant Amorpha, or Bastard Indigo. 



Identification. Swt. Fl.-Gard., t. 241. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 234. 

 Sunonume. A. nana Situs in Hot. Mag., t. 2112., but not of others. 

 Engravings. Swt. Fl.-Gard., t. 241.'; Hot Mag., t. 2112.; and our 

 Jig. 303. 



Spec. Char.y $c. Shrubby, pubescent. Leaves with 

 6 8 pairs of elliptic-oblong mucronate leaflets, 

 obtuse at both ends, young ones pubescent. Calyx 

 pubescent, pedicellate ; superior teeth obtuse, lower 

 one acute. Style hairy. Flo wers dark purple. (Don's 

 Mill., ii. p. 234.) A native of North America, where 

 it grows 7 ft. or 8 ft. high ; flowering in June and 

 July. Introduced in 1800; but not common in 

 British collections. Planted in deep, free, dry, sandy 

 soil, this sort, like all the others, will grow and flower d 

 freely. 



a 5. A.(F.) CRO V CEO-LANA V TA Wats. The Saffron-coloured-woolly Amorpha, or 

 tawny Bastard Indigo. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit, t 139. ; Don's Mill., 2. 



p. 234. 

 Engravings. Wats. Dznd. Brit., t. 139. ; and our fig. 304. 



Spec. Char.y $c. Plant clothed with tawny pu- 

 bescence. Racemes branched. Leaves with 

 6 8 pairs of oblong-elliptic, mucronulate, 

 downy leaflets; the 3 upper teeth of calyx 

 ovate, acute, the 2 lower ones very short, and 

 rounded. (Don's Mill.y ii. p. 234.) A native 

 of North America, cultivated in British gar- 

 dens in 1820, where it is a shrub from 3ft. ^ 

 to 5 ft. high. Its flowers, which appear in 

 July and August, are of a purplish blue. 

 Plants of this sort are in the Fulham Nur- 

 sery. 



a 6. A. (F.) CANE'SCENS Nutt. The canescent Amorpha, or Bastard Indigo. 



Identification. Nutt. in Fras. Cat., 1813, and Gen. Amer., 2. p. 92. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 467. ; 



Dec. Prod., 2. p. 256. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 234. 

 Synonyme. ? A. pubdscens Pursh, 2. p. 467. 



Spec. Char. y $c. Suffruticose, dwarf, all over whitely tomentose. Leaflets 

 ovate-elliptic, mucronate, the lowest near the base of the petiole. Cal; 

 tomentose; its teeth ovate, acute, equal. Ovary 2-ovuled. Legume 

 seeded. (Dec. Prod.yii. p. 256.) A native of Louisiana, on the banks 

 the Missouri and the Mississippi; producing its dark blue flowers in Ji 

 and August. Introduced in 1812, by Lyon, but not common in col 

 lections. This sort, like every other kind of Amorpha (and indeed like all 

 ligneous plants, the wood of which is not hard and compact, and the dura- 

 tion of which is consequently but temporary), requires to be well cut in 

 every year, or otherwise to be planted in very poor, dry, sandy soil. Nothing 

 but cutting in shrubs of this description in soils where they grow freely, 

 will either majke them assume handsome shapes, or preserve their vitality for 

 any length of time. The same may be said of the peach, the almond, the 

 hydrangea, the ribes, and many oth'er soft-wooded trees and shrubs. 



