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'Cytisus SEssiLiroLius. SgEssiLe-Leav’p, 
or ComMMON Cytisus.. - | 
| HBS HSS A HReRHSek 
Clafs and Order. = 
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DYADELPHIA  DECANDRIA, | °° ee 
Generic Charager. 
Cal, 2-labiatus: 3 Legumen bafi attenuatum. ae 
Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
CYTISUS jefilifolius racemis ere&tis, calycibus braftea tri- 
____ plici, foliis floralibus feflilibus. Linn. Sy, Vegetab. 
ed. 14. Murr. p. 666. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 50. 
CYTISUS glabris foliis fubrotundis, pediculis breviflimis. 
. _. Baub. Pin. p. 390. < ae ges 
_CYTISUS vulgatior, the common Tree Trefoile. Park. Parad. 
oo p. 440. : : 
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The term /efilifolius has been given to this fpecies of Cytifus, 
becaufe the leaves are for the moft part feffile, that is fit clofe 
to the branche’, without any or very fhort foot-ftalks; fuch — 
they are at leaft on the flowering branches when the fhrub is 
in bloffom, but at the clofe of the fummer they are ‘no longer — 
fo, the leaves acquiring very evident footftalks. | 
‘It isa native of the more fouthern parts of Europe, and 
though in point of fize and elegance it cannot vie with its 
kindred Laburnum, it is a deciduous fhrub of confiderable 
beauty, rarely exceeding the height of five or fix feet, and 
producing a great profufion of bright yellow flowers, which 
continue in bloffom a long while; they make their appearance 
in May and June, and are ufually fucceeded by feed-veffels 
which produce ripe feeds, by thefe the plant is readily pro> 
pagated. ee 
 _It is one of the moft common fhrubs we have, as well as one 
of the oldeft inhabitants of our fhrubberies, being mentioned 
_ by Parxinson in his Parad. Terrefris, 2 
