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Leaves unequally twice pinnate : flowers dioecious, in a raceme or 



corymb, dull white : a tree with rough bark. Man. p. 109. GYMNOCLADUS. 



Leaves twice or thrice pinnate, with small leaflets, or if simple 

 then vertical or edgewise (phyllodia) : flowers small but many 

 in a head or spike, perfectly regular, often mouopetalous. 

 Stamens 4 or 5, or 8 - 10, distinct : flowers rose-color ; pod break- 

 ing up into joints leaving a slender framework. . . .18. MIMOSA. 

 Stamens 10 - 15, monadelphous at the base, purplish. . . 19. ALBIZZIA. 



Stamens very many, yellow or yellowish 20. ACACIA. 



1. Lupinus, Lupine. Man. p. 91. Handsome garden plants. 



L. albus is the Lupine which the ancients cultivated as pulse, an annual, 

 with obovatc-oblong leaflets, hairy underneath but smooth above, and white 

 flowers alternate in the raceme. 



L. pilosus is an old garden annual Lupine, all over very villous with 

 white hairs, the flowers in loose whorls in the raceme, flesh-color, rose-color, 

 or light bine. 



L. luteus is the old yellow annual Lupine, the flowers in whorls in a long 

 dense spike ; the leaves mostly radical. 



L. inutabilis, cultivated as an annual, from S. America, is a large and 

 very smooth species, with broadish leaflets, and large pale bluish flowers with 

 some yellow. 



L. Cruckshanksii is a fine variety of the last with bluer flowers. 



L. polyp hyllus, from Oregon, is the fine perennial Lupine of the gar- 

 dens, with 13 to 15 lanceolate leaflets, and a very long and dense raceme of 

 blue flowers ; there is also a white variety. 



2. Sarothamnus scoparius, the Common Broom of Europe, is a smooth 

 shrubby plant, 3° to 5° high, with rigid green branchlets, bearing small round- 

 ish leaflets (upper leaves simple), and large, yellow, scattered flowers. 



3. Cy'tisus Laburnum, Common Laburnum or Golden Chain; a 



small tree with long hanging racemes of golden-yellow showy flowers ; 

 leaflets 3, oblong or oval. 



4. Erythrina Crista-galli. A green-house shrubby plant, planted out 

 in summer, with large leaves of 3 leaflets, and a long raceme of very large red 

 flowers : the genus is known by having the two wing petals so small that they 

 arc concealed in the calyx. 



5. MedicagO SCUtellata, Snail Medick. A low annual, spreading, 

 with small yellow flowers, but rather large and singular pods, coiled up like a 

 snail-shell or shaped like a bee-hive, smooth. 



M. sativa, Lucerne, Man. p. 93, is cultivated for fodder. 



6. Phaseolus, Kidnet Bean, &c. Man. p. 104. We cultivate the fol- 

 lowing : — 



P. COCCineus, Scarlet Runner, with bright scarlet flowers in long 

 racemes (rarely varying to white), for ornament. 



P. vulgaris. Common String Bean or Pole Bean, with white flow- 

 ers and straight linear pods. 



P. nanus, Dwarf or Field Bean, is a cultivated variety of the last, 

 growing low and bushy, not twining. 



P. lunatus, Lima Bean, Sieva Bean, of several varieties, has rather 

 small white flowers, and broad, curved, or scymitar-shaped pods, with large 

 and fiat seeds. 



