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ma TREES AND SHRUBS 
Caragana arborescens, Laméert. SIBERIAN PEA. Large shrub or small 
tree, with 4 to 6 pairs of leaflets (and a soft tip instead of the end leaflet), 
which are oblong and somewhat downy ; flowers early, single, yellow. Native 
of Siberia. 
Cercis. RrEpD-BupD, JUDAS-TREE. Leaves simple ; irregular flower, appear- 
ing to be (but not truly) papilionaceous, coming before the leaves, in conspicu- 
ous red clusters; thin flat pod narrow, more or less winged on one side. The 
name Judas-tree comes from the old English idea that it was on this the traitor 
hanged himself. 

Cercis Canadensis, Zizneus. AMERICAN RED-BuD. Tree 20 feet high, 
covered in spring with a profusion of bright-red or somewhat purple clustered 
flowers; leaves heart-shaped, pointed. Native in the Park. 
Cercis Japonica (?). JAPAN Rep-Bup. A recent introduction from 
Japan; said to be hardy, and to have bright rose-colored flowers which are 
larger than those of our native species. 
Cercis Siliquastrum, Zzzz@us. EUROPEAN RED-BupD. Shrubby in the 
North. Has large flowers, which are raised on a stalk out of the calyx, and 
broad, almost kidney-shaped leaves; flowers bright rose-colored or sometimes 
white. From Europe. 
Cladrastis. Tree with yellow wood and white irregular flowers, which 
hang in clusters from the ends of the branches; stamens barely united at base; 
bases of the leaf-stalks hollow and covering buds for the ensuing year. 
Cladrastis tinctoria, Rafinesgque. YELLOW Woon. (Virgilia lutea, 
Michaux the younger.) A beautiful small tree, with smooth bark; leaves of 
7 to II oval leaflets; stipules none; keel-petals separate. Native of the 
western slope of the Southern Alleghanies. 
Colutea. BLADDER SENNA. Shrubs with irregular flowers, not prickly; 
upper petal spreading, lower petal strongly curved upwards and inwards on 
long united claws; the inflated bladder-like pod raised on a stalk clear of the 
calyx, several-seeded, and somewhat “ flattened on the seed-bearing side.” 
Colutea arborescens, Zimmv@us. COMMON BLADDER SENNA. Leaves 
with 7 to 11 oval or oblong leaflets which are somewhat notched or squarely 
cut at the apex; flowers yellow, 5 to 10 in a loose bunch; the thin inflated 
pod large. Shrub from Europe. 
Colutea cruenta, Azton. ORIENTAL BLADDER SENNA. Leaves with 
obovate somewhat glaucous leaflets which are notched at the end; flowers 
yellowish brown or reddish, 4 to 5 in a loose cluster; pod opens before ripen- 
ing by aslit. Native of Southern Europe, and barely hardy here. 
Cytisus. “Leaves of 1 or 3 leaflets, or the green branches sometimes 
leafless; stipules minute or wanting; calyx 2-lipped or 5-toothed. Keel 
straight or somewhat curved, blunt, soon turned down. Style incurved, or even 
curled up after the flower opens. Pod flat. Seeds with a fleshy or scale-like 
appendage at the scar. Low shrubby plants.” — Gray. 

