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leaves made up of from four to six pairs of oval ob- 

 long leaflets and clear yellow flowers whose golden 

 standards and keel tell of kith and kin with the pea- 

 family. These pea-flowers change into short pods 

 which are ripe in August, when they show brown 

 amid the grass-green foliage of the shrub. Its name 

 is of Tartar origin. 



Beyond the Siberian pea tree you pass several hand- 

 some bushes of the Forsythia suspensa, with long re- 

 curving sweeping branches which seem to have burst 

 from the ground like jets from fountains. Note their 

 generally three-parted leaves, usually one larger one 

 with two smaller ones, wing and wing, below. Be- 

 yond the Forsythia, you meet Siberian pea tree again, 

 then matrimony vine, tamarisk and honey-locust. 



Here we come to another fork of the Walk, and 

 we will take its right branch. As we follow it, on our 

 right, just beyond the honey-locust, we meet a shrub 

 whose opposite leaves, oblong lanceolate in shape and 

 very silvery pubescent undersides, at once mark it as 

 a shrub of unusual occurrence in our rambles. You 

 will not meet with many of them in the Park. It is 

 a fair specimen of the many-flowered oleaster or Else- 

 agnus. This is a spreading shrub with reddish brown 

 branchlets and alternately set simple leaves which are 

 ovate-oblong (some are elliptic in shape) and very sil- 

 very on the undersides. The uppersides of the leaves 

 are darkish green, with scales or star-like clusters of 

 hairs. Often the margins of the leaves are slightly 

 crisped. The shrub blooms in May or June in axil- 

 lary clusters two or three together, and these change 



