CORONILLA VARIA. 
VARIOUS-COLOURED CORONILLA. 
Class. Order. 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Europe. 
4 feet. 
Aug. Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1597. 
No. 226. 
Diminutives, in the English, Italian, and French 
languages, are generally formed by the addition of a 
syllable ; as in the present instance, Coronilla, a little 
crown, is derived from the Latin corona, a crown. 
Other examples are at hand, as juncus, jonquilla; 
campana, campanula. The trivial name, varia, is 
from the Latin; and probably not at first given 
so much on account of the colours that occur in one 
flower, as from the inconstancy of the usual tints, in 
different varieties. From various authors we learn 
that as well as party-coloured, as seen in our speci- 
men, it has sometimes been found wholly purple ; and 
also entirely white. 
When fully established, the Coronilla varia, be- 
comes very ornamental; but, like other herbaceous 
climbing plants, will require to be supported. This 
may be sufficiently effected by a single upright stick, 
round which it should be tied, as its growth happens 
to require. 
From its height it will accord very well with the 
front of the shrubbery ; and as its roots are much 
given to spread, and throw up young shoots rather 
obtrusively, such situation should be preferred to 
