1974 
* SPARTIUM acutifólium. 
Sharp-leaved Spanish Broom. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. FABACEA or LEGUMINOSE, $ PAPILIONACER. 
. SPARTIUM, Linn. Calyx membranaceus, spathaceus, supernċ fissus 
apice quinquedentatus subbilabiatus. Corolle vexillum subrotundum, complica- 
tum, carinà acuminatà et petalis parum agglutinatis bipartibili. Stamina mona- 
delpha. Legumen plano-compressum, polyspermum, eglandulosum. Frutex 
glaber, ramis virgatis, teretibus, foliis paucis lanceolatis, floribus in racemos 
terminales dispositis distantibus flavis. DC. prodr. 2. 145. 
S. acutifolium ; foliis acuminatis, racemis laxioribus. 
Whether this is more than a variety of Spanish Broom 
cannot say. It appears to be a distinct species ; for its 
leaves are not only longer and taper-pointed (fig. 1.), instead 
of being rounded at the point (fig. 2.), but the racemes are 
more lax, and the manner of growth far more graceful. 
Otherwise it is like the Spanish Broom. It was raised in the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society from Turkish seeds, and 
proves a hardy shrub, with fragrant yellow flowers. 
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SÈ. i ides, 
* Spartium junceum appears to have been the araprtov of Dioscori 
and the otaprov Y Aristote of which bees were fond; it is a very ca 
plant from the Avsooraprov of Theophrastus, which certainly was either Lyge 
partum, or Stipa tenacissima. 
