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 Bastard 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;