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LEGUMINOSAE. 



rather slender twigs, rounded or bluntly angular continuous pith ; 

 alternate somewhat raised U-shaped leaf-scars partly encircling 

 the buds, with 3 bundle-traces ; minute stipule-scars crowning the 

 leaf-cushion ; small hairy superposed sessile buds with indistinct 

 scales, the terminal bud lacking; odd-pinnate leaves with stalked 

 entire leaflets ; papilionaceous perfect flowers in supra-axillary 

 racemes forming a terminal panicle; and torulose pods. 

 Not weeping. S. japonica. 



Weeping. -S. japonica pendula. 



LABURNUM. Golden Chain. 



Deciduous shrubs or small trees with brown wood with small 

 ducts crowded in spring, wavy anastomosing tangential wood- 

 parenchyma pattern, and fine medullary rays ; moderate fluted 

 twigs ; rounded homogeneous pale pith ; alternate somewhat raised 

 crescent-shaped or transversely elliptical leaf-scars with 3 bundle- 

 traces ; short stipules persistent at top of the leaf-scar; solitary 

 sessile round-ovoid buds with 2 or 3 exposed scales ; typically en- 

 tire moderately large nearly sessile leaflets ; rather large perfect 

 papilionaceous yellow flowers in racemes ; and several-seeded 

 legumes. 



1. Leaflets lobed. 

 Leaflets not lobed. 2. 



2. Leaves yellow. 

 Leaves green. 3. 



3. Leaves sessile. 

 Leaves petioled. 4. 



4. Leaflets elliptical. 5. 

 Leaflets very narrow. 



L. anagyroides quercifolium. 



L. anagyroides aureum. 



L. anagyroides sessilifolium. 



5. Leaflets flat. 6. 

 Leaflets concave. 



6. Branches rather spreading. 

 Branches distinctly drooping. 



L. anagyroides Carlieri. 



L. anagyroides bullatum. 



L. anagyroides. 



L. anagyroides pendulum. 



GENISTA. Whin. 



Small deciduous shrubs with slender angular twigs ; more 

 or less angled homogeneous pale pith ; alternate small raised 

 crescent-shaped or 3-lobed leaf-scars with 3 bundle-traces ; more 



