the technical character (deciduous teeth and a truncated 
membranous edge to a calyx subtended by a bract), or the 
habit (stiff spiny yellow-flowered bushes) be regarded. 
In like manner we look forward with confidence to the 
reception of Boissier's genus Retama for Spartiums like 
S. monospermum, of Grisebach's Syspone for Genista sagit- 
talis, of the same author's Lembotropis for Cytisus nigricans, 
and even to the restoration of the ancient genus Laburnum. 
The specimen now figured was raised in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, from seeds presented by George Ben- 
tham, Esq. 
A pretty shrub, capable of withstanding the ordinary 
winters in the open border, but injured by severe ones. It 
grows freely in any dry loamy soil, and flowers in June. 
It is increased by seed, and is two years before the plants 
bloom, which is in May. 
It occurs in a wild state in various parts of the south of 
Europe and Barbary, on stony or rocky hills, 
