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Var. FRAGRANS. Leaflets large, 2 to 3 ins. long, usually 4^ to 7^ pairs ; 

 shrub glabrous, except on inflorescence. 



Var. GLABRA. Leaves and stem smooth, inflorescence slightly downy. 



A. NANA, Nuttall. 



A low, deciduous shrub, about 2 ft. high ; stems branching, and having little 

 or no down. Leaves pinnate, 2 to 3 ins. long, with eight to thirteen pairs of 

 leaflets and an odd one ; leaflets \ to f in. long, oval or obovate, nearly 

 smooth. Flowers purple, fragrant, very closely set in cylindrical terminal 

 racemes i to 2 ins. long. Pod one-seeded. 



Native of Eastern and Central N. America ; introduced in 1811. Although 

 somewhat similar to A. canescens in foliage, it is really very distinct. It is 

 a true shrub, and has little or none of the grey down so conspicuous in 

 A. canescens ; its flower-spikes are also much shorter and not clustered. A 

 rather dainty plant, but scarcely known in gardens nowadays. 



ANAGYRIS FCETIDA, Linnceus. LEGUMINOS^E. 



A deciduous bush, or small tree, with alternate, trifoliolate leaves. 

 Leaflets i to 2^ ins. long, narrow oval, covered with fine down beneath, 

 greyish green. " Flowers pea-shaped, yellow, produced in short racemes on 

 the growth of the previous year; each flower f to i in. long, and but 

 little expanded; calyx bell-shaped, downy and ciliated, green; petals 

 yellow, the standard one hooded; wings narrow oblong. The racemes 

 are ij to 3 ins. long, and carry six to twenty flowers. Seed-pod 3 to 

 5 ins. long, J to f in. broad, pointed at both ends, curved like a scimitar, 

 and containing three or four seeds. 



Native of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, and requiring 

 at Kew the protection of a south wall even there occasionally killed. 

 The specific name refers to the unpleasant odour of the leaves, which is, 

 however, only perceptible when they are crushed. The tree is known in 

 the south of France as " bois puant " on that account. The flowers are 

 inodorous. In S. Europe they open in early spring, later in Britain. 



ANDRACHNE. EUPHORBIACE^E. 



A group of plants belonging to the Spurge family, of which two 

 shrubby species are sometimes seen in cultivation. They have little 

 beauty of flower or fruit, but are rather neat in habit. Leaves alternate. 

 Flowers unisexual, produced in the leaf-axils of the current season's 

 growth, small, green ; the females solitary. Fruit a dry capsule of three 

 divisions, each division two-valved. There are about twelve species 

 known, inhabiting both the New and Old Worlds, but the two following 

 are the only shrubby ones I have seen in cultivation. Neither can be 

 said to deserve a place in gardens except for its botanical interest. They 

 thrive in ordinary loam in full sunshine, and can be increased by cuttings 

 in August. 



A. COLCHICA, Fischer. 



A native of the Caucasus, and a deciduous shrub, about 3 ft. high, of dense, 

 erect habit, and with very slender, quite smooth, leafy shoots, the terminal 



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