DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERING SHRUBS. 395 



DESOEIPTIVE LIST OF HAEDY PLOWERma SHEUBS, 

 SUITABLE FOE THE SHEUBBEEY, LAWNS, ETO. 



AMELANCHIER.— June-berry.— Shad-bush. 



[A. name by which one of the species is known in Savoy.] 



Amelanchier Canadensis. — June-beny, Shad-bush, Sug- 

 ar Pear. — A shrub so variable that in its different states it 

 has received at least a dozen different names. It is found 

 as a low shrub and as a tree twenty feet high. Its leaves 

 differ much in shape and smoothness, and the flowers are 

 in some forms much larger and produced in greater abund- 

 ance than they are in others. It is found along streams 

 and in woods, and is conspicuous about the first of May 

 for its white flowers in pendulous racemes. The crimson 

 or purple bracts at the base of the flower-stalks, con- 

 trasted with the pure white flowers, and the glossy, silken, 

 scattering pairs of the opening leaves, give a delicate 

 beauty to this shrub. The fruit is berry-like and eatable. 

 Easily transferred from the woods to the shrubbery. 



AMORPHA.— False Indigo. 



[Named from the Greek, meaning wanting form, from the absence of parts of 

 the corolla.] 



Amorpha fruticosa* — False Indigo.— A native shrub, 

 found on the banks of streams from Pennsylvania, west- 

 ward. It is very variable, and its different forms have re- 

 ceived several distinct names. It grows about six feet 

 high, has foliage somewhat like that of the Locust, and 

 long spikes of dark-violet purple flowers which a})pear in 

 July. Of easy propagation by seeds or by cuttings. 



