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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



D. Leaves deciduous, blades -1 inch long ; branches round, pubes- 

 cent ; racemes slender, 8-8 inches long, June, July; hardy to 

 middle states. BLACK-ROOTED BROOM Cytisus nigricans. 



D. Leaves deciduous of one lanceolate blade; brandies grooved, 

 green; flowers small, in early summer ; plant 1-2 feet. WHIN or 

 DYER'S GREEXAVEEH (120) Genista tinctoria. 



D. Leaves almost entirely absent, found only on vigorous shoots 

 near the ground ; very spiny and rigid shrub; flowers fragrant, 

 f inch long; calyx 2-lobed. FURZE or GOKSE (127) Ulex 

 europseus. 



Laburnum. The GOLDEN CHAINS are rather trees than shrubs but in 

 the North they are apt to grow somewhat bushy. They receive their 



FIG. 134. Scotch Laburnum. 



FIG. 135. Golden Chain. 



common name from the slender drooping clusters of large, generally yel- 

 low, pea-like flowers in late spring. The leaves are compound of 3 oblong 

 usually entire-edged blades. The pods (2 inches long) are hairy with one 

 thick edge and black or brown seeds. The tallest of these plants is the 

 SCOTCH LABURXIM (134) Laburnum alpinum, which grows occasionally 

 to the height of 30 feet with late floAvers (June) and brown seeds. 

 The commonest species in cultivation is GOLDEN CHAIN or BEAN TREE 

 (135) Laburnum vulgare, which grows to the height occasionally of 20 



