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Diemen's Land, and, consequently, tolerably hardy. It also grows about the height of 4 ft., and produces its yellow flowers from June to September.

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Bossia a Vent. is a genus of New Holland shrubs,
with compressed branches, sometimes apparently
without leaves. B. ensàta Sieb. (Swt. Fl. Austr
t. 51.; the B. rùfa of Bot. Cab, t. 1119.) grows
2 ft. high, and produces its yellow flowers from
April to June. B. microphylla Smith (Bot. Cab.,
t. 756.) has the branches less compressed and leafy,
and the flowers with the standard yellow, and red at
the base, and the keel of a brownish purple. It
grows to the height of 2 ft.

Goódia lotifolia Salisb. (Bot. Mag., t. 958., and our
fig. 327., is a native of Van Diemen's Land, which
has been in the country since 1793. It grows to the
height of 4 ft., and produces its yellow flowers, hav.
ing the base of the standard red, from April to July.
There are two other species, G. pubescens Bot. Mag.,
t. 1310., and G. polysperma Bot. Rep., t. 237.; both
of which, being natives of Van Diemen's Land,
are, doubtless, tolerably hardy.

Scóttia dentata R. Br. (Bot. Reg., t. 1233., and our fig. 328.) and S. angustifolia Bot. Reg., t. 1266., are elegant New Hol. land shrubs, growing to the height of 4 ft., and flowering from December to June.

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Templetònia glauca Sims (Bot. Cab., t. 764., Bot. Reg., t. 759., and our figs. 329, 330.) and T. retùsa R. Br. (Bot. Mag., t. 2338.) are elegant New Holland shrubs, growing to the height of 3 ft., and flowering from March to June. The flowers are of a fine crimson colour.

Ráfnia Thunb. is an African genus, of which eleven species, natives of the Cape of Good Hope, have been described, and several have been introduced. The general appearance of these shrubs is that of Cytisus or Spártium; and they usually grow to the height of 3 ft. or 4 ft., and produce their yellow flowers in June and July. R. triflora Bot. Mag., t. 859., and our figs. 331, 332., will afford a fair specimen of the genus.

Vascòa Dec. is a Cape genus, of which there are two species introduced: V. amplexicaulis Dec., and V. perfoliata Dec., the Crotalària amplexicaulis of Lam. Dict., 2. p. 194.

Borbonia L. is a Cape genus, of which 11 species have been described, and nearly half as many introduced. B. crenata L. (Bot. Mag., t. 274.) grows to the height of 6 ft., and produces its yellow flowers, which are less 331 villous than those of the other species of the genus, in July and August.

Achyrònia villosa Wendl. (Hort. Herrenh., 1. t. 12.) is a New Holland shrub, growing to the height of 2 ft. or 3 ft., with yellow axillary, pedicellate flowers, which appear in July and August.

Lipària sphærica L (Bot. Mag., t. 1241.; Bot. Cab., t. 642.) is a Cape shrub, with shining leaves, and flowers disposed in spherical heads, of a yellowish-brown colour,

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drying black. It grows to the height of 6 ft., flowering in July and August; and is a very handsome plant for a conservatory.

Priestleya Dec. is a genus of Cape shrubs, of which 15 species are described in Don's Miller, and nearly half as many introduced. The species have simple, quite entire, exstipulate leaves, and yellow flowers, which are disposed either in heads, umbels, or spikes. P. vestita Dec. (Bot. Mag., t. 2223.) grows to the height of 4 ft., and flowers in May and June.

Crotalària is an extensive genus, of which no fewer than 143 species are described in Don's Miller. They are herbs, or subshrubs, with simple or palmately compound leaves, and flowers usually of a yellow colour. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and North America, chiefly herbaceous; but one or two of the Cape suffruticose species may be considered as half-hardy. C. pulchella Andr. (Bot. Rep., t. 417.; Bot. Mag., t. 1699.) is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, which grows to the height of 3 ft., and produces its large yellow flowers in July and August. Hypocalyptus obcordatus Thunb. is a smooth shrub, with trifoliolate leaves and purple flowers, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, introduced in 1823, and flowering in June and July. Viborgia Spreng, is a Cape genus, of which 3 species have been described, and two are in cultiva

tion. They are Cape shrubs, about 2 ft. or 3 ft. high, with trifoliolate leaves, and yellow flowers in racemes. V. obcordata Thunb. (the Crotalària floribunda of Bot. Cab., t. 509., and our fig. $33.) will afford a specimen of the genus.

Loddigèsia Sims (named in honour of Conrad Loddiges of Hackney, to the liberality and kindness of whose sons our present work is much indebted) oxalidifolia Bot. Mag., t. 596., and our fig. 334., is a Cape shrub, with trifoliolate leaves and pinkish flowers, with the keel of a dark purple at the apex. It grows to the height of 3 ft., and is an elegant plant when in flower.

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Dichilus Dec. is a Cape genus, of which 3 species have been described. They are subshrubs, growing to the height of 3 ft, with smooth trifoliolate leaves, and yellow flowers.

Lebeckia Thunb. is a Cape genus of shrubs, or subshrubs, with simple or trifoliolate leaves, with the general habit of Genísta. Eleven species have been described, and 3 or 4 have been introduced. L. sepiària Thunb., the Spartium sepiarium of L., and Pluk. Alm., t. 424. f. 1., was introduced in 1820, and grows to the height of 6 ft., producing its yellow flowers in April and May.

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Sarcophyllum carnosum Thunb. (Bot. Mag., t. 2502., and our fig. 336.) is a smooth Cape shrub, with fleshy filiform leaves, and yellow flowers, which appear from May to August.

Aspálathus L. is a genus of Cape shrubs, of which 86 species have been described in Don's Miller, and about that number introduced. They are almost all shrubs, or undershrubs, with leaves in fascicles, and yellow flowers furnished with bracteoles. A. callòsa L. (Bot. Mag., t. 2329., and our fig. 335.) which grows to the height of 4 ft., will serve to exemplify the genus.

Requiènia Dec. is a genus of African shrubs, of which one species, R. sphærosperma Dec. Lég. Mém., 6. t. 38., is a Cape shrub, grows to the height of 1 ft.; but it is not yet introduced. Anthyllis is a genus containing some undershrubs, natives of the south of Europe, which are half-hardy, and some of them nearly hardy. A. Bárba Jovis L. (Bot. Mag., t. 1927., and our fig. 337.), the Vulnerària Bárba Jovis 337 Lam., and Bárba Jovis argyrophylla Manch, is an evergreen shrub, which grows to the height of 8ft.; a native of Spain, Barbary, the Levant, and Italy, on rocks; and it has been cultivated in frames in England since 1640. The leaves are pinnate, and the flowers pale yellow; the whole plant having asilvery appearance, whence it derives the names of Jupiter's beard, and the silver bush. The elegance of this shrub did not escape the ancients; and Pliny mentions its beauty; adding, that it dislikes water, and that it makes a very elegant ornament for gardens when clipped into a round shape. It is also mentioned by Dioscorides as good for healing wounds, by the application of its leaves. It is one of the finest shrubs that can be planted against a conservative wall. It will grow in any light soil, and is easily propagated by cuttings, or by seeds, which are sometimes ripened against a south wall.

A. cytisoides L. (Barrel. Icon., t. 1182.) a native of Spain, and the south of France, was introduced in 1731. It grows to the height of 2 ft., and forms a neat little frame shrub, almost hardy in the neighbourhood of London.

A. Hermánniæ L. (Bot. Mag., t. 2576.) is a native of Corsica, Crete, and Palestine. It forms a spiny shrub, with pubescent leaves, and yellow flowers, which appear from April till July. It was introduced in 1789, and grows to the height of from 2 ft. to 3 ft. There is a plant of it which has been two years in the open border in the Kew Garden, without any protection whatever. A. Aspálathi Dec., Spártium créticum Desf., (Bot. Cab., t. 1169.) resembles the preceding species, and may possibly be only a variety of it.

A. erinàcca L. (Bot. Mag., t. 676.) grows about 1 ft. high, and has rushy branches, and bluish purple Bowers.

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Swainsonia Salisb. is a genus of elegant New Holland shrubs, all beautiful, and well deserving a place against a low conservative wall in a mild locality. S. galegifolia R. Br. (Bot. Mag., t.792., and 344

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our fig. 344.) grows to the height of 3 ft.; and produces red flowers from June to August. There is a variety of this with white flowers, figured in Bot. Reg., t. 994. S. coronillefolia Salisb. (Bot. Mag.,

t. 1725.) and S. lessertiæfolia Dec. are rather herbaceous than ligneous; but their flowers are large and handsome, and, when kept in a frame during winter, and turned out in the borders in spring, they make a fine appearance.

"Lessértia Dec. contains some undershrubs, one or two of which have been introduced. L. fruticosa Lindl. (Bot. Reg., t. 970., and our fig. 345.) is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, which grows to the height of 3 ft., and produces its purple flowers in July and August.

Sutherlandia frutéscens R. Br., Colùtea frutéscens L. (Bot. Mag., t. 181.; and our fig. 346.) is a hoary shrub, with large, elegant, scarlet, showy flowers, a native of th, Cape of Good Hope. It grows to the height of 3 fte or 4 ft., flowering from June to August; and, in very. mild winters, it will stand in the borders without protection. S. microphylla Burch. is another Cape species, which has not yet been introduced.

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Sect. III. HEDYSA'REÆ.

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GENUS XVIII.

CORONI'LLA Neck. THE CORONILLA. Lin. Syst. Diadélphia Decandria.

Identification. Neck. Elem., No. 1319.; Lam. Ill., t. 630.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 309.

Synonyme. Coronilla sp. of Lin. and others.

Derivation. From corona, a crown, in reference to the disposition of the flowers in crowns, or umbels, at the tops of the peduncles.

Description, &c. The ligneous species are hardy or half-hardy, deciduous or subevergreen, shrubs, natives of the south of Europe or Asia, with imparipinnate leaves, and flowers on pedicels disposed in umbels placed on axillary peduncles. They are all highly ornamental, and most of them produce seeds in England, by which, or by cuttings, they are easily propagated.

1. C. E'MERUS L. The Scorpion Senna Coronilla.

Identification. Lin. Sp., 1046.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 309.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 274.

Synonymes. E'merus major Mill. Icon., t. 132. f. 1., and E. minor, f. 2.; C. paucifidra Lam. Fl. Fr. Engravings. Sims Bot. Mag., t. 445. ; N. Du Ham., 4. t. 131.; Mill. Icon., t. 132. ; and our fig. 347. Spec. Char., &c. Shrubby, gla

brous. Its leaves are at-
tended by minute stipules,
and have 5-7 obovate leaf-
lets. Its flowers are yellow,
disposed 3 upon a peduncle.
The claws of the petals are
thrice as long as the calyx.
The legume is rather cylin-
drical than compressed, and
its joints separate slowly and
unobviously, but they do se- 347
parate. It is spontaneous in
hedges and thickets of middle

and southern Europe, and of Tauria. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 309.) Introduced in 1596, and flowering from April to June. Height 10 ft. Before the flowers are expanded, the corolla is partly red externally, mostly so towards the tips of the petals; and the mingling of the yellow flowers, with flower buds more or less red, and the elegant foliage, render this hardy shrub a very desirable one for its beauty. Perhaps it flourishes most in a sunny sheltered situation, and a dry soil. It bears clipping pretty well, and would form a beautiful hedge. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 9d. each ; at Bollwyller, 50 cents; and at New York, 374 cents.

2. C. JU'NCEA L. The rushy-branched Coronilla. Identification. Lin. Sp., 1047.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 309.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 274. Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 820.; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 235.; Barrel. Icon., t. 133.; J. Bauh. Hist., 1. p. 2. t. 383. f. 2.; and our fig. 348.

Spec. Char., &c. Shrubby, glabrous.

Branches rush-like,

round, bearing but few leaves; the latter are attended by minute stipules, and have 3-7 leaflets, that are linear oblong, obtuse, and rather fleshy; the lowest leaflets being rather distant from the base of the petiole. The flowers are yellow, 5—7 in an umbel. The claws of the petals are scarcely longer than the calyx. The legume is rather compressed, and its joints separate obviously. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 309.) The whole plant is very glaucous. Native of the south of France, and introduced in 1756. It grows to the height of 2 ft. or 3 ft., and produces its bright yellow flowers in June and July. It deserves a place in collections, on account of the singularity of its rush-like slender branches, which, like those of Spártium júnceum, are partly destitute of leaves.

App. i. Half-hardy ligneous Species of Coronilla.

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The half-hardy species of this genus are eminently beautiful, and some of them have been known to live for years in the open border, in a dry soil, in the neighbourhood of London. Against a wall, they will live with very little protection, producing their beautiful yellow flowers early in spring (one species, C. stipulàrís, in March); and continuing flowering throughout the summer. As they produce abundance of seeds, a stock of plants may always be kept in pots or cold-pits, and turned out into the open borders, where they will flower freely throughout the summer; and, if they should be killed during the succeeding winter, the loss can easily be supplied.

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