. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. SENXA FAMILY. I. Cercis canadensis L. Red-bud. Amer- ican Judas-tree. Fig. 2436. Cercis canadensis L, Sp. PI. 374. 1753. A tree, with greatest height of about 50° and trunk diameter of 1°, or often shrubby. Stipules membranous, small, caducous; leaves simple, petioled, cordate-orbicular, blunt-pointed, rather thick, glabrous, or pubescent along the veins beneath, 2'-6
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. SENXA FAMILY. I. Cercis canadensis L. Red-bud. Amer- ican Judas-tree. Fig. 2436. Cercis canadensis L, Sp. PI. 374. 1753. A tree, with greatest height of about 50° and trunk diameter of 1°, or often shrubby. Stipules membranous, small, caducous; leaves simple, petioled, cordate-orbicular, blunt-pointed, rather thick, glabrous, or pubescent along the veins beneath, 2'-6' broad; flowers several together in sessile umbellate clusters, appearing before the leaves; pedicels slender, 4"-i2" long; corolla pink-purple, about 4" long; pod short-stalked in the calyx, linear-oblong, acute at each end, gla- brous, 2-3' long, 6" wide, several-seeded. In rich soil, southern Ontario and New York to Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Florida and Texas. Wood hard, weak, dark reddish-brown ; weight per cubic foot 40 lbs. Red Judas-tree. Salad-tree. April. 2. CASSIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI 376. 1753. Herbs, shrubs, or in tropical regions trees, with evenly pinnate leaves, not sensitive to the touch, and mainly (in all our species) yeKow flowers. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, mostly obtuse, generally longer than the tube. Corolla nearly regular; petals 5, spreading, nearly equal, imbricated, clawed. Stamens usually 10, sometimes S, often unequal and some of them imperfect; anthers all alike, or those of the lower stamens larger, opening by 2 pores at the summit. Ovary sessile or stalked; ovules =0. Pod flat or terete, often curved, septate or continuous between the seeds, the valves not elastically dehiscent. Seeds numerous, [.\ncient name.] About 200 species, of wide distribution in warm and temperate rejjions, very abundant in trop- ical .America. Besides the following, about 15 others occur in the southern and southwestern States. Type species : Cassia f
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