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with very long racemes of flowers, named L. alpinum 

 Alschingeri. 



L. caramanicum. — Asia Minor, 1879. A bushy shrub of 

 vigorous habit, with trifoliate and petiolate leaves of a 

 pale-green colour, thick and tough, and brightly polished 

 on the upper surface. Flowers bright yellow, the calyx 

 being helmet-shaped and rusty-red. It is a beautiful but 

 uncommon shrub, and succeeds very well in chalky or 

 calcareous soil. Flowers in July. 



L. vulgare (syn Cytisus Labv/rnum). — Common Labur- 

 num. Southern France to Hungary, 1596. This is one 

 of our commonest garden and park trees, and at the same 

 time one of the most beautiful and floriferous. The large, 

 pendulous racemes of bright-yellow flowers are, when at 

 their best in May, surpassed neither in quantity nor beauty 

 by those of any other hardy tree. There are several 

 varieties of this Laburnum — a few good, but many worth- 

 less, at least from a garden point of view. L. vulgare 

 .Parkesii is a seedling form, raised in 1840, bearing large 

 racemes of deep-coloured flowers, often 14 inches long ; 

 L. vulgare Watereri was raised in the Knap Hill Nursery, 

 Surrey, and is one of the most distinct and beautiful of 

 the many forms into which the Laburnum has been sub- 

 divided. The flower racemes are very long and richly 

 coloured. L. vulgare quercifolium and L. vulgare sessili- 

 folium are fairly well described by their names ; L. vulgare 

 fragrans differs only in having sweetly-scented flowers ; 

 L. vulgare involutum has curiously-curled leaves ; while . 

 L.. vulgare aureum, where it does well, is a beautiful and 

 distinct form, with golden-yellow leaves. 



Lapageria (Liliaceae). 



Lapageria rosea. — Chili, 1847. This is, unfortunately, 

 not hardy, unless in favoured maritime districts, but in 

 such situations it has stood unharmed for many years, and 



