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CYTISUS* multifldrus. 



Many-flowered Cytisus 



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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



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Nat. ord. Leguminos^. § LotecB. 

 CYTISUS. — Suprd, vol. 2. foL 121. 



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C. multijlorus ; caulibus erectis, ramis elongatis teretibus : junioribus villosis, 

 foliolis oblongis basi attenuatis subtiis villosis utrinque concoloribus, 

 floribus subternatis, pedicellis petiolis subsequalibus, vexillo emarginato 

 lindulato. > 



C* elongatus ; /3. multiflorus. Dec^prodr. 2. 155. 



Differ t C.elongatOy foliis subttts villosiSy concoloribus, nee appresse pilosis, 

 argento micantibus ; pedunculis petiolis longioribus v. cequalibuSj nee multo 

 brevioribus ; vexillo emarginato, undulato, quodammodo lacero, nee obcordato, 

 piano, integerrimo ; denique^ floribus majoribus, temis quaternisve, nee subso- 

 litariis, rarb temis. 



We quite agree in the opinion expressed by Dr. Besser 

 in Decandolle's Prodromus, that the C. elongatus of many 

 Gardens is a Species distinct from that of Waldstein and 

 Kitaibel. Of the latter we have wild specimens from the 

 neighbourhood of Pest, which entirely agree with the 

 garden plant figured by Watson in his Dendrologia Bri- 

 tannicay from Messrs. Whitley's Nursery ; this, therefore, 

 is to be considered the'True C. elongatus. ^ That which is 

 now represented is better known in the Gardens of the 

 continent than in this country. The plant from which our 

 drawing was made, in May 1827, was growing in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had been 

 raised from seeds received from Professor Jacquin. 



It is a very beautiful hardy border-shrub* "remarkable 



♦ Pliny says, that Cytisus was so called because it was a native of 

 Cythnos, one of the Cyclades. .His Cytisus was the Medicago arborea. 



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