CORONIL'LA EM'ERUS. 
SCORPION SENNA. 
Order. 
DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOS.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
France. 
6 feet. 
April, June. 
Shrub. 
in 1596. 
No. 801. 
Coronilla signifies a little crown, which is pret- 
tily represented by the inflorescence of some species 
of the genus. See No. 226. 
Emerus, a name which was originally applied 
to this shrub, as a generic appellation, is from the 
Greek, and signifies agreeable. It has been call- 
ed Scorpion Senna from the old name, Colutaea 
Scorpioides of Gerard, the pods having swellings, 
as Parkinson says, like a scorpion’s tail. 
Although well known, this shrub is not so fre- 
quently introduced into prominent situations as it 
deserves; for, as is rightly observed in that elabor- 
ate work — Loudon’s Arboretum, ‘ The mingling 
of yellow flowers, with flower buds more or less 
red, and the elegant foliage, render this hardy 
shrub a very desirable one for its beauty.’ The 
habit of the shrub, too, would indicate its utility in 
forming gaiden hedges, which could be so pruned 
as to be made very ornamental, and it has the ad- 
vantage of being exceedingly durable. 
It may be grown in any common garden soil, 
and increased easily by layers, or by seeds, which 
the plant frequently ripens. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 2, 274. 
Class. 
DIADELPHIA. 
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