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GLYCINE RUBICUNDA. DINGY-FLOWERED
GLYCINE.
Clqfs and Order.
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
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Generic Chamber.
Cat. 2-labiatus* Corollee carina apice vexillum refleQe'ns.
Specific Character.
GLYCINE rulicunda caule perenni volubili, foliis ternatis,
foliolis fubovalibus integerrimis, pedunculis fub-
trifloris.
The plant here figured, and very generally known to the
Nurferymen, in the neighbourhood of London, by the name
of Glycine rulicunda, is a native of New SouthrWales, and
was introduced to this countiy about the fame time as the
Glycine limaculata already figured.
It is a ihrubby, twining plant, running up to the height of
five, fix, or more feet, producing blolforns abundantly from
April to June, which are ufually fucceeded by feed-veffels
which ripen their feeds with us.
The flowers though large and fhewy, have a kind of dingy
or lurid appearance, which greatly diminishes their beauty.
We have obferved the bloflbms of fome plants more brilliant
than thofe of others, and we think it highly probable, that, at
feme future period, feminal varieties may be obtained with
flowers highly improved in colour.
This fpecies is readily raifed from feeds, is of quick growth,
and may be regarded as one of our more hardy green-houje
plants : probably it may fucceed in* the open air, if planted in
a warm fituation, and flickered in inclement feafons.
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