FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
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Hedysarum coronarium (garland). Stems diffuse, 
Principal species.^ ^ ^ f ee t long, and about 18 inches high. Leaflets 
varying from elliptical to roundish in four or five pairs, with the usual 
terminal odd leaflet in addition; edges and lower surface downy. 
Flowers half an inch long, deep red, on erect spikes 3 to 6 inches long, 
like glorified clover heads; June to August. There is a white- 
flowered variety. 
H. Mackenzii (Mackenzie’s). Stems decumbent. Leaflets oblong, 
with hoary down on both surfaces. Flowers red, in long racemes; June 
to August. 
H. microcalyx (small-calyxed). Stems sub-shrubby, tall-growing. 
Leaves sometimes as much as a foot long, the leaflets numerous, sixteen 
to twenty, oblong; from f to 1^ in. long. The flowers are as long as the 
leaflets, bright red with a strong violet tinge, and with a small five¬ 
toothed calyx. The racemes are as long as the leaves, on very long 
stalks, and appearing in June. 
H. multijugum (many-pairs). Stems perennial, woody, 3 to 5 feet 
high, branched. Leaves divided into from twenty to forty egg-shaped 
or oblong leaflets, covered with silky down beneath. The leaf-stalks 
and branches are also -downy. The flowers are bright red, in somewhat 
sparsely-flowered racemes; June and July. 
Culture Given an open, sunny situation, where there is a good 
and deeply-dug soil, and there you may plant Hedysarums , 
with fair assurance that they will do well. They die down in winter, 
but shoot again vigorously in spring. The seeds should be sown in the 
open border in May or June, pricked out when fit, and removed to their 
permanent position in the autumn. They will then be well-established 
before the flowering season comes round. H. coronarium niay be treated 
as an annual. H. multijugum is a useful plant for the shrubbery. 
Description of The drawing represents the upper part of a stem of 
Plate 68. Hedysarum coronarium; Fig. 1 showing a blossom detached, 
and 2 a section of the same. 
CORAL TREES 
Natural Order Leguminos^e ; Genus Erythrina 
Erythrina (Greek, erythros, red). A genus comprising about thirty 
species of trees and shrubs, with branches and leaf-stalks often 
prickly. The leaves are trefoils, the two lower leaflets opposite. The 
