ho reside in cities or great towns, where
the pleasures of the garden are not to be enjoyed.

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SOPHORA TETRAPTERA. WINGED-PODDED SOPHORA.

_Class and Order._

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 5-dentatus, superne gibbus. _Cor._ papilionacea:
alis-longitudine vexilli. _Legumen._

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

SOPHORA _tetraptera_ foliis pinnatis foliolis numerosis (17--19)
lanceolato-oblongis villosiusculis: leguminibus
membranaceo-quadrangulis, caule arboreo. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 43._

SOPHORA _tetraptera_. _Job. Miller ic. tab. 1._

[Illustration: No 167]

The magnificent and highly curious species of Sophora here represented,
is one of the many plants discovered by Sir JOSEPH BANKS at
New-Zealand, where it forms a tree of a considerable size.

A finer sight can scarcely be imagined than a tree of this sort,
extending to a great breadth on a wall with a western aspect, in the
Apothecaries Garden at Chelsea, where it was planted by Mr.
FORSYTH about the year 1774, and which at this moment (April
28, 1791) is thickly covered with large pendulous branches of yellow, I
had almost said golden flowers; for they have a peculiar richness, which
it is impossible to represent in colouring; in the winter care is taken
to cover it carefully with mats, least it should suffer from any
extraordinarily severe weather.

It usually produces a few seed vessels of an uncommon form, having four
wings, whence its name of _tetraptera_; from some of the seeds which
have ripened in this country plants have been raised, and by these the
plant is found to be propagated with the most success; it may also be
increased by cuttings and layers.

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IRIS PAVONIA. PEACOCK IRIS.

_Class and Order._

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cor._ 6-petala inaequalis, _Petalis_ alternis geniculato-patentibus,
_Stigmata_ petaliformia; cucullato-bilabiata.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

IRIS _pavonia_ imberbis folio lineari glabro, scapo subunifloro. _Linn.
Syst. Vegetab. p. 92._

[Illustration: No 168]

We have our doubts whether the plant here figured be the _pavonia_ of
the _Systema Vegetabilium_, as it does not accord so well with the
description there given, as we could wish; as such however it has been
regarded by some here, and it must be allowed to answer extremely well
to the name.

It is a small delicate Iris, about a foot and a half