Volume Iii Part 3 (1/2)

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COLUTEA ARBORESCENS. TREE COLUTEA, OR BLADDER SENNA.

_Cla.s.s and Order._

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 5-fidus. _Legumen_ inflatum, basi superiore dehiscens.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

COLUTEA _arborescens_ arborea foliolis obcordatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab.

p. 668._

COLUTEA vesicaria. _Bauh. Pin. 396._

The greater b.a.s.t.a.r.d Senna with bladders. _Park. Par. 440._

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The Bladder Senna, a native of the South of France and Italy, produces a profusion of bloom from June to August, when its inflated pods please from the singularity of their appearance; on these accounts, it is one of the most common flowering shrubs cultivated in gardens and plantations.

”It is propagated by sowing its seeds any time in the spring in a bed of common earth; and when the plants are come up, they must be kept clear from weeds, and the Michaelmas following they should be transplanted either into nursery-rows, or in the places where they are designed to remain; for if they are let grow in the seed-bed too long, they are very subject to have tap roots, which render them unfit for transplanting; nor should these trees be suffered to remain too long in the nursery before they are transplanted, for the same reason.” _Miller's Gard.

Dict._

We have learned by experience, that a very wet soil will prove fatal to these shrubs.

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LACHENALIA TRICOLOR. THREE-COLOURED LACHENALIA.

_Cla.s.s and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ subtriphyllus, inferus, coloratus. _Corolla_ 3-petala, receptaculo inferta. _Jacquin jun. in act. helv. vol. 9._

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

LACHENALIA _tricolor_. _Lin. Syst, Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 314._ _Jacq.