HEDYS'ARUM RO'SEUM. 
ROSE-COLOURED HEUYSARUM. 
Class. Order. 
DIAnELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
leguminosa:. 
Native of 
Heiglit. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
18 inches. 
July, Aufr. 
Perennial. 
in 1803. 
No. 346. 
The derivation of the terra Hedysarura, is found 
in the Greek edus, sweet, and aroma, the scent 
of flowers. Roseura, from the colour of the flower. 
This plant is ornamental, and very hardy, and will 
grow in any common soil. It merely requires tying 
up, once in a season, and its flowering stems will 
then continue upright, and have a neat appearance. 
It is nearly allied to the well-known British spe- 
cies, Hedysarum onobrychis, or Sainfoin ; a plant, 
which, in some of the gravelly and chalky soils of 
England, is found to be of great advantage to the 
agriculturist. Young, in his Annals of Agriculture, 
and Martyn, in his Miller’s Dictionary, strongly ad- 
vocate the culture of Sainfoin, The latter author 
has drawn a comparison between the profits of Sain- 
foin and Turnips; and, although his deductions are 
somewhat incomprehensible, sufficient is shown to 
prove, that on poor lands, where chalk and gravel 
prevail, Sanfoin may be profitably cultivated. 
The increase of Hedysarum roseum, when left two 
or three years undisturbed, is not apparently great, 
but it will be found to admit of many divisions. 
This should be performed when it begins to shoot. 
Loudon’s Ency. of PI. 630. 
