AMORPHA 



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feet and lias many garden varieties. One of these varieti?s has yellow 

 foliage, aiireuin ; another, curled foliage, bullatum ; another, lobed 



FIG. 136. Adam's Laburnum. 



blades, quercif61ium ; weeping, pendulum ; small narrow blades, 

 Carlieri ; and crowded leaves, sessilifolium. (The last-named is supposed 

 to be a graft hybrid.) [Seeds ; layers.] 



KEY TO THE LABURNUMS 



* Flowers yellow, large (f inch long), in silky-hairy racemes 4-8 inches 



long; pod 2 inches long, hairy ; seeds hairy. GOLDEN CHAIN or 

 BEAN TREE (135) Laburnum vulgare. 



* Flowers smaller in longer and mure slender racemes; pod thin with 



one edge winged ; seeds brown. SCOTCH LABI-KNI-M (134) La- 

 burnum alpinum. 



* Flowers somewhat purplish, rarely pure yellow. ADAM'S LAIUUM M 



(136) Laburnum Adami. 



Am6rpha. The AMOIMMIAS arc handsome hardy deciduous shrubs 

 witli alternate inany-Madrd pinnate leaves, purple or blue (rarely white) 

 flowers in erect terminal clusters and short ( .', inch or less) 1- or 2-seeded 



pods. There is a 



species, 5-20 teet. FALSE or 



