. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 196 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Gen. Char. Calyx 5-toothed, campanulate at the base, or somewhat attenu- ated. Petals of the keel usually concrete at the apex. Legume somewhat moniliform, wingless, many-seeded. (Don's Mill.) Leaves impari-pinnate,with II—13leaflets,generally exs
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 196 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Gen. Char. Calyx 5-toothed, campanulate at the base, or somewhat attenu- ated. Petals of the keel usually concrete at the apex. Legume somewhat moniliform, wingless, many-seeded. (Don's Mill.) Leaves impari-pinnate,with II—13leaflets,generally exstipulate. Flowers yellow, white, or blue, in simple racemes, or panicles.—The only hardy species are deciduous trees, natives of Japan or China. t 1. S. japo'nica L. The Japan Sophora. Identification. Lin. Mant., 78. ; Dec. Prod., 2, p. 98.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 109. Synont/me. S. sinica Hosier Joum. Phys. 14. p. 248., Dec, L^gum. t. 4. f. 1. Engravings. Red. in N. Du Ham., 3. t. 21.; Legum., t. 4. f. 1. j the plate of this species in Arb. Bnt. 1 St edit., vol. v.; and our Jig. 294. Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves pinnate, with 11—13 leaflets, which are oblong- ovate, acute, and smooth ; panicle loose, terminal; pods smooth. A de- ciduous tree of the middle size. Japan. Height 40 ft. to 50 ft. Intro- duced in 1763. • Flowers cream-coloured; August and September. Pods rarely produced in England. Decaying leaves yellow and green. Naked young wood dark green, like that of ./asminum officinale. Varieties. 1 S. j. 2 variegdta Hort. has the leaves variegated, but is not worth cultivating as an ornamental plant. ¥ S. j. 3 pendula Hort., and the plate of this tree in our 1st edit, vol. v., has pendulous shoots, and is a very remarkable variety. Grafted near the ground, the shoots run along the surface, like those of a trailing plant, to a very great distance from the main stem ; in good soil, a shoot extending itself 6 or 8 feet in one season. Grafted at the height of 10 or 20 fe
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