CORONILLA 



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KEY TO THE MOEE SHEUBBY I^ESPEDEZAS 



* Shrubby with slender branches, 5-10 feet ; blooming in July, with 



slightly hairy pods J inch long ; blades of leaves rounded. Shrubby 

 Bush 'Clovek' (152) — ^^ Lespedeza btoolor. 



* Herbaceous with angular brown branches and flowers J inch 



long. (A.) 

 A. Blooming in September with rose-purple flowers ; blades of leaves 



elongated. Siebold's Bush ' Clovek ' (153) — Lespedeza 



Si6boldi. 

 A. Blooming late in September with large white flowers ; blades of 



leaves broader and less pointed. Japanese Bush ' Clovek ' 



— Lespedeza japtfnica. 



Coronilla. The Coronillas are shrubs or herbs with odd-pinnate 

 leaves and purple or yellow pea-shaped flowers in rounded clusters, like 

 the clovers but larger and with fewer blossoms. 



Scorpion ' Senna ' (154) — Coronilla Emerus — is a dense shrub 4 to 



Fig. 154. — Scorpion ' Senna.' 



Fig. 155.- 



- Glaucous Scorpion 

 ' Senna.' 



6 feet high, hardy only South. Leaves deep glossy-green (evergreen 

 South), of 5 to 7 blades broadest near their tips ; flowers in clusters of 

 about three, large, yellow tipped with red, May to June. 



