SENNA FAMILY, Cassiaceae. 
There are many kinds of Cytisus, natives of Europe, 
Asia, and Africa, named for Cythrus, one of the Cyclades, 
where the first species was found. 
ey ae A handsome branching shrub, about 
Ciias five feet high, with almost smooth or 
scoparius quite hairy leaves, with three, toothless 
Yellow leaflets, and fine clusters of flowers, each 
mE? Of an inch or more long, with a yellow two- 
extgt/Ariy) lipped calyx and a golden-yellow corolla. 
deeper in color at the base of the standard 
and at the tips of the wings; the stamens ten, in one set; the 
stylecurvedin. The pod is flat, smooth on the sides, but 
hairy along the edges, one or two inches long and curling 
when ripe. This issaid to have been brought to California 
by Cornish miners. 
SENNA FAMILY. Cassiaceae. 
A large family, most of them tropical; trees, shrubs, and 
herbs, with flowers more or less irregular in form, but not 
like the flowers of the true Pea, though sometimes re- 
sembling them; calyx usually with five sepals; corolla with 
five petals, overlapping in the bud, the petal which corre- 
sponds to the standard folded within the two side petals, 
instead of covering them, as in the Pea flower; stamens, 
ten, or fewer, in number, usually not united; ovar superior; 
fruit a pod, mostly splitting into two halves, containing 
one to many seeds. To this family belong the handsome 
Red-bud, or Judas Tree, of our woodlands, both East and 
West; the spiny Honey-locust; the Kentucky Coffee-tree, 
with its fine foliage, of the central and eastern states; the 
interesting Palo Verde, with greatly reduced leaves, of the 
Southwest, and the fine Bird-of-paradise flowers, of 
the tropics and Mexico, one or two of which are just begin- 
ning to grow wild in southern Arizona and California. 
There are many kinds of Cassia, abundant in tropical 
America; herbs, shrubs, or trees; leaflets even in number; 
flowers usually yellow; calyx-teeth nearly equal; corolla 
almost regular, with five, nearly equal, spreading petals, 
with claws; stamens usually ten, sometimes five, often 
unequal, some of the anthers often imperfect, or lacking; 
pod flat or cylindrical, often curved, sometimes with 
partitions between the numerous seeds. 
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