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GENISTA canariensis, 
Canary Genista or Cytisus. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irregu- 
laris papilionacea, Legumen 1-loc., Z-valv. Frutices aut herbe ; Jolia 
simplicia aut ternata aut rariüs digitata; stipulæ nunc subnullæ, nunc cone 
spicuæ imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte. 
GENISTA. Cal. bilabiatus $: dentibus binis superioribus brevissimis, 
У ит oblongum, a pistillo staminibusque deorsúm reflexum, Willd. sp. 
рі. 3. 936. 
Div. Inermes. 
С. canariensis, foliis ternatis oblongis subtüs pubescentibus pilis patulis, 
pedunculis multifloris terminalibus, ramis angulatis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 
936. 
Genista canariensis. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 997. Hort. Kew. 3. 13. ed. 2. 4. 258. 
Schulte obs. bot. 145. 
Cytisus І, Clus. hist. 1. 94. 
Frutex nunc orgyalis, villoso-canescens, ramosus, foliosus, ramis striato- 
angulosis. Folia numerosa, undique sparsa, ternata, foliolis X иное longis 
oblongo-obovatis, mucronatis, firmulis, utrinque willosis. Flores lutei, fra- 
grantes, in ramis paniculatim digesti ; ‚ pedunculi albidi, villosi, filiformes, 
graciles, angulares, plures, axillares, infra flores diminuto-foliatt, racemo 
subcorymboso plurifloro terminati; pedicelli breviores calyce, bracteolis 2 
linearibus. hirsutis stipati. Cal. parvus, albo-villosus, tubulosus, bilabiato- 
issus, labium superius bifidum lobulis subulatis distantibus, inferius por- 
rectum trifidum lobulis linearibus, Corollæ vexillum reffezum, oblongum ; 
ale lineares, angusie, vexillum carinamque aquantes ;_ carina pallida, 
villosa, dipelala, porrecta, petalis lineari-oblongis suólatioribus alis, apice 
^ rotundatis, superne versús obliquatis, basi supra ungues gibbosis. Stam, 
monadelpha. Stylus setaceus, supern2 ascendens, glaber: stigma obtusum, 
compressum : germen lineare, virens, sericeum. 
А species native of Spain and of the Canaries, and a 
long standing inhabitant of our greenhouses. The present 
plant corresponds with that which has been delineated by 
Clusius as the Spanish one; the specimen from the Canaries, 
deposited by Mr. Masson in the Banksian Herbarium, has 
a larger foliage and blossom, and a ferruginous pubescence, 
but agrees in all other respects. The species comes very close 
to the hardier Montpellier Cytisus (Genista candicans) so 
frequent in our shrubberies, and which becomes in dry sandy 
soils spontaneous. It is seldom permitted to attain the full 
Size, but is renewed frequently, the young plants being more 
compact and sightly, as well as better suited to the green- 
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