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LIU. On Glycine Sinensis. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 

 F.R. S. Secretary, 



Read June 20, 1826. 



Though the Glycine Sinensis is in the hands of most 

 cultivators of rare and curious plants, I venture to bring it 

 now to the notice of the Society, because I consider it one of 

 the most beautiful that we possess, and as it is sufficiently 

 hardy to stand the climate of this country, I am desirous it 

 should become generally known. I hope to see it not only 

 introduced into the ornamental parts of every Gentleman's 

 garden, but also decorating the walls of our farm houses and 

 cottages, to the covering of which, and especially of lodges at 

 the entrances of parks, it is admirably adapted. 



Though the plant is commonly called by the name affixed 

 to the head of this communication, yet, amongst botanists, it 

 has been recently attached to Wisteria, a genus founded by 

 Mr. Nuttal, in his genera of North American plants,* which 

 he applied to Glycine frutescens, separating it from its former 

 station ; and as the present plant has a near affinity to that, it 

 has been described by M. De Candolle in his Prodromus,+ 

 as Wisteria Sinensis. These two are at present the only 

 species known to belong to the genus. 



The Glycine Sinensis was first introduced to this country 

 from China in 1816. In May of that year Captain Robert 

 Welbank, then commanding the Cuffnells East Indiaman, 

 • Volume ii. page lis, f Part ii. page 390. 



