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CYTISUS nigricans. 
Black-podded Cytisus. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 7 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSA. Juss. gen. 352. Sect. V. 
CYTISUS. Supra fol. 121. (Calyx bilabiatus, labiis integris au 
denticulatis. Lint hort. ber. 2. 240.) l 
C. nigricans, racemis terminalibus erectis, calycibus pilosis, denticulis mi- 
- mutis, foliolis ellipticis pilosis. Ait. Kew. ed. 2. 3. p. 49. 
C. nigricans. - Willd. R^ ut 3. 1118. | Jacq. austr. t. 387. Gmel, tub. p. 
v Roth. germ. II. 223, Pers. synops. 2. 309. Link hort. ber. 2. 
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Cytisus IV. ~ Clus. hist. 1. p. 95. 
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“This plant is a common and elegant ornament of shrub- 
beries in this country, flowering profusely from August to 
October, when little else is in bloom. It is frequently met 
with in most of the middle and southern parts of Europe, 
and is said to have been introduced to England in 1730. 
Our drawing was made at Mr. Shepard's Nursery in the 
King's Road, by the late Mr Sydenham Edwards, some 
years since. | Neb a nds ias 
The rude figure quoted from Clusius i4 very character- 
istic. — h: | mal d 
In orders, of which the greater part of the species are 
. well known and understood, and where, in consequence, but 
few links in the chain of their affinity remain to be supplied, 
there is considerable difficulty in fixing upon characters 
which will define with precision the limits of the genera. 
Whether this arises from a want of terms to express ideas, or 
from deficiency of discriminative perceptions, or from all 
genera being mere artificial groups, combined by naturalists 
‚for purposes of convenience, and not existing im nature, are 
questions upon which it is not necessary to enter in this 
place. But whatever may be the cause, the effect is certain, 
and experienced in no tribe of plants more sensibly than 
among the European genera e Leguminosa, to no-one of 
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