AMORPHA 



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feet and has many garden varieties. One of these varieties has yellow 

 foliage, aureum ; another, curled foliage, bullktum ; another, lobed 



Fig. 136. — Adam's Laburnum. 



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

 Carliferi ; and crowded leaves, sessilif61ium. (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 vulgSire. 



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



one edge winged ; seeds brown. Scotch Laburnum (134) — La^ 

 burnum alpinum. 



* Flowers somewhat purplish, rarely pure yellow. Adam's Laburnum 



(136) — Laburnum Adami. 



Amdrpha. The Amorphas are haVidsome hardy deciduous shrubs 

 with alternate many-bladed pinnate leaves, purple or blue (rarely white) 

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

 pods. There is a tall species, 5-20 feet, False or Bastard Indigo 



