198 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
#1. V.Lu'rea Miche. The yellow-wooded Virgilia, or Yellow Wood. 
Identification. Michx. Fil. Arb. Amer.,3. p. 266. t. 3.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.98.; Don's Mill., 2. p.112, 
Engravings. Delaun. Herb. Amat., t. 197. ; Michx. Fil. Arb. Amer., 3. p. 226. t. 3.5 the plate of 
this tree in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. v.; and our fig. 296. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 9—11; alternate, ovate, pointed, 
smooth, A deciduous tree. North America. On the mountains of Cum- 
berland, andthe Mississippi. Height in America 40 ft.; 10 ft, to 20 ft. in 
England. Introduced in 1812, Flowers yellowish white, in pendulous 
racemes; June to August. Pods never produced in England. Decaying 
leaves rich yellow. Naked young wood yellowish brown. 
The leaves, on young trees, are from 1 ft. to 13 ft. in length, and on old trees 
not above half that size. The flowers form white pendulous racemes, @ little 
larger than those of the Robinia Pseid-Acacia, but not so odoriferous. The 
seeds are like those of the robinia, and, in America, ripen about the middle 
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296. Virgfla lutea. 
of August. In Britain, the tree has flowered in the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 
den, and at Hylands in Essex, but has not yet produced pods. An open airy 
situation is desirable, in order that the tree may ripen its wood; and, to fa- 
cilitate the same purpose where the climate is cold, the soil ought to be dry 
rather than rich. In the London nurseries, it is propagated chiefly by Ame- 
rican seeds, but it will doubtless grow by cuttings of the roots. 
Genus III. 
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PIPTA’'NTHUS Swt. Tue Piprantuvus. Lin. Syst. Decandria 
Monogfnia. 
Identification. Swt. Fl.-Gard., 264.3 Don’s Mill., 2. p. 112. 
Derivation. From piptd, to fall, and anthos, a flower ; from the flowers falling off very soon. 
