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50. CEECIS, RED-BUD, JUDAS-TREE. (Ancient name of the.ori- 

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

 whereon Judas hanged himself.) 



C. Canadensis, American Red-bud. Wild from New York S. (but 

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

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

 numerous flowers, of the color of peach-blossoms or redder ; the rounded leaves 

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



C. SUiquastrum, European R. or Judas-Tree. Barely 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. (Ancient name, of obscure meaning.) The follow- 

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

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



§ 1 . Smooth herb!), 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. Maril4ndica, Wild Senna. The only common soi-t at the north, 

 3°-4° high, with 6-9 pairs of narrow-oblong blunt and mucionate 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. ^ 



C. occidentklis, Western S. or Styptic-Weed. Common S., nat. 

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

 Ibts, a globular gland on the base of the petiole, and narrow linear smooth pods 

 5' long. ® 



C. obtuslfdlia. 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, smoother roughish hairy herbs, in sandy or dry larren 

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

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

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

 tered m the axils. 

 C. Chamsecrista, Laege-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. ® 



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

 a short style, and 5 nearly equal anthers. 



62. CfflSALPIWIA. (Named for the early Italian botanist CcEsa/pimiS. ) 

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

 in Gulf States, viz. 



C. puleh6rrima (also named PoinciXna pulcherrima), Barbadoes 

 Flowek-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 jaggod-edged petals 1' long and red- 

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



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

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

 . leaves have fallen appearing destitute of spray.) 



G. 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 



29 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 leaflet! 



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