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or else it shoots 

 up slender like a Cy- 

 press, with bare stem and pyramidal A 

 outline. Even our common Juniper ^ 

 ( y. co)n))iuins) is capalile, under favour- 

 able circumstances, of becomin£^ arbor- 

 escent; but this seldom happens. The 

 Leguminous shrub with yellow flo\yers 

 which covers mucli ground here and there, is Coroiiilhi 

 JiJitfnis, a plant common on tlie eastern Riviera. It ma'\' 

 easily be distinguislied irom other yellow-flowered shrubs 

 of the same familv bv its imparipinnate leaves and by the 

 inflorescence which is usually a three-flowered peduncle. 

 Coronilla Emcrus differs also from its relatives of the 

 Macjuis in being unarmed. Almost as common on the 

 eastern Riviera is anotlier yellow-flowered Leguminous 

 plant, Cytisus irijlorus (Fig. p. 131). This shrub is un- 

 armed like the Coronilla just described : but it is twice 

 as tall. It flowers much later, and has trifoliate, not 



