Cercis (sers is)

[NL., broad, generally two-lobed leaves, and rose-colored flowers, appearing before the leaves. The best-known species in the old world is C. Siliqua strum, commonly called the Judas - tree, from the tradition that it was upon a tree of this sort, standing near Jerusalem, that Judas Iscariot hanged himself. It is common on the shores of Asia Minor and in all the East. C. Can a dens is, of the United States, is known as the red - bud.