HEDYS'ARUM SIBERICUM. 
SIBERIAN HEDYSARUM. 
Class. 
DIADBLPIIIA. 
Order. 
DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOS/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
3 feet. 
July to Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1838. 
No. 781. 
Hedysarum, signifying a sweet perfume, has been 
explained, at length, under No. 441. 
The Hedysarum Sibericum of Poiret lias been 
quoted by Don and others as tho alpinum of Lin- 
neus. The present plant appears to be distinct 
from alpinum, and is still farther removed from 
obscurum. Being of handsome growth — 3 feet 
high, and its showy racemose spikes of flowers 
continuing to be produced through July and Au- 
gust, it is a desirable plant for the back of the flower 
border or centre of the mound. It was raised in 
the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s garden, 
from Russian seeds, imported in 1838, and the 
young plants flowered in 1840. 
A near ally of this plant, the Hedysarum on- 
obrychis, or Saintfoin, also a showy flowerer, is 
well known in some parts of England, particularly 
where calcareous soils are cultivated. 
In cultivation, the Hedysarum Sibericum requires 
no peculiar treatment, but grows freely in any com- 
mon garden soil, and probably will ripen seeds. It 
increases but slowly at the root, consequently can- 
not, by that means, be rapidly propagated. 
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