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60. CERCIS, RED-BUD, JUDAS-TKEE. (Ancient name of the ori- 

 ental species : tlie English name from the old notion that this was the tree 

 whereon Judas hanged himself.) 



C. Cauad^usis, Amekican Ebd-bud. Wild from New York S. (hut 

 prohably not in Canada as the name implies) : a small, handsome tree, orna- 

 mental in spring, when the naked branches are covered with the small bat very 

 nnmeroiis flowers, of the color of peach-blossoms or redder ; the rouhded leaves 

 are somewhat pointed, and the pods scarcely stalked in the calyx. > 



C. Siliquastrum, European R. or Judas-Tkee. Barel/ 'hardy N.,' 

 except as a shrub ; has larger flowers, pod raised out of the calyx on a short 

 stalk, and almost kidney-shaped leaves. A seeming variety of this inhabits 

 Texas and California. 



51. CASSIA, SENNA. (Ancientname, of i^scure meaning.) The follow- 

 ing all wild species, the first sometimes cult, in country gardens, and the 

 leaves used in place of true, oriental Senna. El. summer, in all ours yellow. 



§ 1 . Smooth herbs, in rich or alluvial soil, with rather large leaflets, deciduous 

 stipules, flowers in short axillary racemes or crowded in a panicle, and the 

 10 stamens unequal, some of the upper anthers imperfect. 



C. Maril&ndica, Wild Senna. The only common sort at the north, 

 3° -4° high, with 6-9 pairs of narrow-oblong blunt and mucronate leaflets, 

 a club-shaped gland on the common petiole near the base, bright yellow petals 

 often turning whitish when old, blackish anthers, and linear flat (at first hairy) 

 pods. y. 



C. OCCideut&liS, Western S. or Styptic-Weed. Common S., nat. 

 from South America : 1° - 5° high, with 4-6 pairs of lance-ovate acute leaf- 

 lets, a globular gland on the base of the petiole, and narrow linear smooth poda 

 5' long. ® 



C. 0btusif61ia. From Illinois and Virginia S. ; with 2 or 3 pairs of ob- 

 ovate leaflets,' a pointed gland between the lowest, the pale flowers in pairs, and 

 slender curved pods 6' - 10' long. ® 



§ 2. Low and spreading, smooth or roughish hairy herbs, in sandy or dry barren 

 soS, with persistent striate stipules, and 10-20 pairs of small linear-oblong 

 oblique or unequal-sided leaflets, which are somewhat sensitive, closing when 

 roughly brushed ; a cup-shaped gland below the lowest pair : flowers clus- 

 tered in the axils. 

 C. Chamsecrista, Largb-fl. Sensitive or Partridge Pea. Flowers 

 pretty large, showy, on slender pedicels, with the petals often purple-spotted at 

 base, a slender style, and 10 unequal stamens, some of the anthers usually yel- 

 low and others purple. Like the next most common S. (T) 



C. nictitans, Small-fl. S. Flowers small, on very short pedicels, with 

 a short style, and 5 nearly equal anthers. 



62. CJESAIiPINIA. (Named for the early Italian botanist CassoZpmiw.) 

 One species of tropical America, cult, in some conservatories, is planted out 

 in Gulf States, viz. 



C. pulch^rrima (also named PoinciXna ptTLCHERRiMA), Bakbadoes 

 Flower-fence. Small tree, prickly, with twice-pinnate leaves, numerous 

 oblong leaflets notched at the end, and open terminal racemes of large and 

 showy flowers, the short-clawed broad and jagged-edged petals 1' long and red- 

 dish-orange, and the crimson filaments 3' long. 



53. GYMNOCLADUS, KENTUCKY COFFEE-TREE. (Name from 

 Greek words for naked branch, the branches being very stout, and when the 

 leaves have fallen appearing destitute of spray.) 



Gr. Canadensis. The only species, a fine ornamental and timber tree, wild 

 from W. New York S. and especially W., with rough bark, twice-pinnate leaves 

 2° or 3° long, each partial leafstalk bearing 7-13 ovate and stalked leaflets, 

 except the lowest pair, which are single leaflets (2' - 3' long) ; the leaflets 



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