AN INTERESTING FASCIATION 



'T'HE accompanying photograph is a good example of a fas- 

 ciated branch. It was found on Amorpha virgafa grow- 

 ing in the shrub collection in the Arnold Arboretum. This 

 branch was the only one on the plant so deformed. In the case 

 of this particular branch, the growth of the crown of the plant 

 was normal, but abcut a foot awav the whole structure started 



to flatten out and continued so to the end of the branch, where 

 it seemed to split up into many small immature leaflets. As 

 will be noticed, the branch is approximately an inch and three- 

 quarters wide for a great deal of its length and about one- 

 quarter of an inch thick. The curious way in which the leaves 

 have disposed themselves is very interesting. The bush on 

 which this occurred is a handsome specimen about nine feet 

 high and has a spread of over six feet. The branch is one of 

 the lower ones but with just as miuch space to develop as the 

 rest on the same level. — Hubert M. Cojuiiiig, in Horticulture. 



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