Tas. 6819. 
CYTISUS uursurvs. 
Native of South Europe and Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. Leauminosz.—Tribe GEenIsTER. 
Genus Cyrisus, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p, 484.) 
Cytisus (Tubocytisus) hirsutus ; fruticosus, patentim molliter hirsutus, ramis foliosis 
erectis v. adscendentibus, foliis longe gracile petiolatis, foliolis elliptico-oblongis 
obovatis v. ovatis obtusis, floribus 2-4-nis omnibus lateralibus breviter pedi- 
cellatis, ealycis hirsuti tubo subcylindraceo breviter bilabiato, labio superiore 
2-dentato, inferiore breviore, vexillo orbiculari, legumine planiusculo hirsuto 
recto v. subfaleato. 
C. hirsutus, Linn. Sp. Pi. - 1042; DC. Prodr, vol. ii. p. 156 ; Jacq. Obs. vol. iv. 
t. 96; Koch Synops. Fl. Germ. 171; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. ii, p. 50; Mog- 
gridge Flor, Ment. t, 28. 
C. falcatus, Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Hung. t. 238. 
C. triflorus, Lam. Dict. vol. ii. p. 250, non L’Herit, 
C. Tournefortianus, Lois, in Duham. Arbr. Ed. Nov, vol. v. p. 137, 
Now that attention is being directed to the introduction 
of hardy flowering kinds into our hitherto too monotonous 
backgrounds and borders of shrubs, it is to be expected 
that the Cytist will take a prominent place, and for this 
purpose none is better worth culture than the subject of 
the present plate, which is hardly known except in the 
gardens of the curious. It is a native of a wide extent of 
country in South Europe, from southern Switzerland and 
Italy to Greece, Bosnia and Bithynia. Anatolia is its 
eastern limit, whilst its western is the Alps of Dauphiné. Mr. 
Moggridge, in his * Flora of Mentone,” says that it is one 
of the rarest leguminous plants of that district, occurring 
only on sandstone rocks in the Turin Valley. It must not 
be confounded with the C. hirsutus of the * Flora Greeca,” 
which is C. spinescens, Sieber. According to ‘‘ Hortus 
Kewensis,” it was cultivated by Mr. Philip Miller at 
Chelsea in 1739. For the specimen here figured I am 
indebted to my indefatigable friend and contributor in this 
work, George Maw, Hsq., F.L.8S., who flowered it at 
Benthal Hall (Shropshire) in June, 1879, and sent me 
specimens for illustration, : 
JUNE Ist, 1880, 
