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SYLVA FLORIFERA 



LABURNUM— LABURNUM: CYTISUS. 



Natural order, Papilionacece, or Leguminosce, 

 A genus of the Diadelphia Decandria class. 



Laburnum, rich 



In streaming gold.' 



Nor might she fear in beauty to excel, 



From whose fair head such golden tresses fell. 



This beautiful alpine tree was known to the 

 Greeks under the name of 'Avuyvpts, and its 

 emetic qualities gave rise to their proverb, 

 Anagrin commoner e 9 " to work one's own woe." 

 It is observed that the bees avoid the flowers 

 of this tree, whose leaves are so agreeable to 

 the goat. Theocritus, the poet, who flourished 



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