Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 61 
dling growth, cloathed with pinnated or winged leaves, 
formed of many pair of fmall folioles, terminated by 
an odd one; and papilionaceous or butterfly-fhaped, 
or pea-bloom, yellow flowers, in bunches and loofe 
fpikes at the fldes and end of the branches; each 
flower compofed of a heart-lhape vexillum or ftand- 
ard, two oval wings, and a fhort carina or keel, with 
ten internal flamina, an oblong germen, and Angle 
ftyle; and the germen becomes a Jointed-Pod, con¬ 
taining oblong feed, ripe in autumn, proper for low¬ 
ing to raife fupplies of the plants, which are alfo pro¬ 
pagated by layers. 
Characters. —The flowers, hermaphrodite, papilio¬ 
naceous—the calyx one-leaved, very fhort, bifid, 
ereCt and permanent; corolla or flower, a heart-fhap- 
ed, and in fome a narrow vixillum or ftandard, two 
oval or oblong wings, and a fhort, comprefled point¬ 
ed keel or carina; flamina, ten filaments in two fets, 
nine being joined and one Handing feparate, broad at 
top, crowned with fmall anthera; a piftillum, coiifift- 
ing of a long, taper germen, fupporting a brilHy, af- 
cending ftyle, terminated by an obtufe fligma; and 
the germen grows a jointed taper pod, having oblong, 
kidney-fhaped feeds. 
The Species are, 
1. Co ron ill a coronata. Coronated Jointed-Podded 
Colutea. 
A fmall, ever-green fhrub, two feet high—the 
leaves pinnated (Jmall) of nine ob-oval lobes, the in¬ 
ner ones approaching the ftalk, with two-parted, op- 
pofite ftipula; and clofe bunches of yellow flowers; 
May or June.—Native of the South parts of Europe. 
(Warm, dry fituation.) 
2. Coronilla glauca. Glaucous or Sea-green Co- 
ronilla. 
A fmall, ever-green fhrub, two feet high—the 
leaves pinnated, (fmall, glaucous or fea-grten) of 
feven lobes, with lanceolate ftipula, and roundifh 
bunches of bright-yellow flowers, in April ox May. 
—Native of France. (Warm, dry foil.) 
3. Coronilla argtntea, Silvery-leaved Coronilla of 
Creta. 
A fmall, ever-green fhrub, tw'o feet high—the 
Teaves pinnated, (fmall, fiver-coloured) of eleven 
filky filvery lobes, the outer ones largeft, and bunches 
of yellow flowers, in April or May.—Native of Cre¬ 
ta. ( Warm, dry fluation.) 
4. Coronilla Emerus —(Emerus) or Scorpion 
Sena. 
A middling j deciduous fhrub, feven or 
high—the ftem angular, leaves pinnated ( middling, 
light-green ) of feven lobes; and long peduncles, gene¬ 
rally with three yellow flowers; the claws of the corolla 
triply longer than the calyx; flowering in May, June, 
&c.—Native of Meflilea and Montpelier. (. Any com¬ 
mon foil.) 
Variety. —Dwarf, Scorpion Sena. 
Of the above fpecies of Coronilla, the firft three 
are fomewhat tenderifh in winter, more liable to fuffer 
by fevere froft than the fourth fort; fo fhould, gene-* 
rally, have a warm, dry fituation, and fome of each 
kept in pots, to move under protection of a frame or 
green-houfe, in rigorous weather, or during the win¬ 
ter feafon; and are likewife admitted wholly in the 
green-houfe collection, more particularly, the fecond 
and third: however, they being planted in a dry foil 
and flickered fituation, in the full ground, will Hand 
our ordinary winters tolerably well; but the fourth fort, 
Coronilla Emerus or Scorpion Sena, is fufficiently hardy 
to grow in any common foil and fituation, and is more 
generally known and cultivated as a hardy flowering- 
fhrub, than the others. 
They are all defirable furniture, as ornamental 
flowering-fhrubs, to admit in pleafure-grounds, in 
beautifying the fhrubbery and other compartments: 
may be obtained at moft of the nurferies, to plant in 
autumn or fpring; but more commonly the Scorpion 
Sena; difpofing the three fmaller ones towards front, 
in a warm fituation; the other place any where, more 
or lef’s inward, to aflemble with other lhrubs of fioiilar 
dimenfions of growth; they will make a pretty va¬ 
riety in their pinnated leaves, and papilionaceous flow¬ 
ers in fummer. 
They are propagated moftly by feeds, and occaflon» 
ally by layers. 
By feed, which ripening in moft of the forts in au¬ 
tumn, but more abundantly in the Scorpion Sena, is 
fowed in March or April; the firft three forts fow in 
a warm border, the other in any bed of light earth, 
an inch deep; give water in dry weather, both before 
and after the plants are up; and when thofe of the 
three former are two or three inches high, prick fome 
in pots or in a border, watered and fhaded from the 
fun, till frefh rooted; and the fourth fort, having one 
or two fummers growth in the feed-bed, fhould be 
tranfplanted in autumn or fpring, in nurfery-rows; and 
in which the different forts to continue for two or three 
years, or fill of proper fize for the ihrubbery. 
Likewife 
