CHAP. XLI. 



LEGUMINA v CEiE. WISTA^IU^. 



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the trials that have been made of the proper mode of managing it, both 

 by Mr. Gower and the Rev. John Coleman, by whom it was given to 

 the former gentleman, it would appear that it succeeds best when treated as a 

 hardy plant, and turned out into a peat border; for in such a situation it has 

 now been two years in Mr. Gower's garden, and the plants continue to look 

 very healthy, with a profusion of blossoms forming for next year. Kept in the 

 green-house, it was sickly, and did not flower in the hands of Mr. Gower's 

 gardener ; but Mr. Coleman succeeded in blossoming it in a large pot in a green- 

 house, and in inducing it to ripen its pods. Considering the climate of New 

 Zealand is, in some places, so much like that of England, that some species, 

 such as Edwards/a microphylla, will bear the rigour of our winters, it is not 

 improbable that this may also prove a hardy plant : if so, its extraordinary 

 beauty will render it one of the most valuable species that has been introduced 

 of late years ; and, even if it should be no hardier than Sutherland/a frutes- 

 cens, it will still form one of the most important and welcome of all the 

 modern additions to our flower-gardens." (Hart. Trans., 2d ser. i. p. 521.) 



Sect. IV. Phasec^le^:. 

 Genus XIX. 



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WISTA V R/^ Nutt. The Wistaria. 



Lin. Si/st. Diadelphia Decandria. 



Don's Mill., 2. p. 348. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 115. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 389. 

 Synonymes. Glycine sp. L., Thyrsanthus Elliot, Kraunhia Rafin. 

 Derivation. Named in honour of Caspar Wistar, late Professor of Anatomy in the University of 



Pennsylvania. (Don's Mi/l.,i\. p. 348.) Nuttall first characterised and named this genus, from the 



American species, which he denominated W. specibsa ; but which De Candolle has changed to W. 



frutescens. In De Candolle's Prodromus, and some other works, Wistan'a is erroneously spelled 



Wisten'a. 



Description, cfc. Leaves impari-pinnate, without stipules. Flowers in ter- 

 minal racemes, blue lilac ; when young, attended by bracteas, which after- 

 wards fall off. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 390.) Deciduous twining shrubs, natives 

 of North America, and China ; of vigorous growth, and forming, when in 

 flower, some of the most splendid ornaments of British gardens. They are 

 quite hardy, will grow in any soil, and are generally propagated by layers of 

 the young shoots, which will root at every joint if laid down during'summer as 

 they grow. They may also be propagated by cuttings of the roots ; or by seeds. 

 j 1,W, frute'scens Dec. The shrubby Wistaria. 



Identification. Dec. Prod. , 2. p. 390. ; Don's Mill. , 2. p. 348. 

 Synonymes. Glycine frutescens Lin. Sp., 10fi7.; A pios 



frutescens Ph. Fl. Am. Sept., 2. p. 474. ; Anonymos 



frutescens Walt. Fl. Car., 186. ; Wistana specibsa Nutt. 



Gen. Amer., 2. p. 115. ; Thyrsanthus frutescens Elliot 



Journ. Acad. Sci. Philad. ; Phaseoloides Hort. Angl., 55. j 



the Kidneybean Tree. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2103. ; and our fig. 359. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Wings of the corolla each 

 with two auricles. Ovary glabrous. Flow- 

 ers odorous. (Dec. P?'od. s ii. p. 390.) An 

 elegant deciduous climber, a native of Vir- ^ 

 ginia, Carolina, and the Illinois, in boggy 4 

 places. Introduced in 1724, and flowering 

 from July to September. The flowers are 

 of a bluish purple, and sweet-scented, the 

 standard having a greenish yellow spot at 

 the base. The plant is a free grower; and, 



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