CORONILLA, jointed podded COLUTEA; a genus of the decandria order, belonging to the diadelphia class of plants. To this genus Linnæus also joins the emerus, or scorpion seua; though Mr Miller makes it a distinct species. There are 11 species, all of them plants of considerable beauty, with very bright yellow flowers. All of them, however, are rather too tender for this climate, except the emerus. This species rises with a shrubby stem, branching numerously six or eight feet high, closely garnished with winged leaves of three pair of lobes, terminated by an odd one; and, at the sides of the branches, numerous long flower-stalks, each supporting two or three large yellow flowers.
flowers of the papilionaceous kind, succeeded by longish pods; it is easily propagated by seeds, and likewise by layers, or cuttings. The leaves of this plant are esteemed laxative, and used as a substitute for common fenna in some parts of Europe. A dye is procured by fermentation from the leaves, like that of indigo.