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50. CERCIS, 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. Siliquas'trum, European K. or Judas-Tkee. 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. (Ancientname, of obscure 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 herbii, in rich or alluviql 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. Marilandica, 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. ^ 



C. ocoldentklis, Western S. or Sttptio-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 pods 

 5' long. © 



C. Obtusifblia. Erom 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. Loio and spreading, smooth or roughish hairy herbs, in sandy or dry barren 

 soil, 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, Large-pl. 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. nictitans, Small-pl. S. Flowers small, on very short pedicels, with 

 a short style, and 5 nearly equal anthers. 



52. C-ffilSALPINIA. (Named for the early Italian botanist Casso/ptnus.) 

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

 in Gulf States, viz. 



C. pulch^rrima (also named PoinciXna puloherrima), Baebadoes 

 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. ) 



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 



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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