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Cytisus Purpureus. Purple -Flowered 



Cytisus. 



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Clafs and Order. 



DlADELPIIIA DeCANDRIA, 



Generic Character. 

 Cal. 2-labiatus : -f, tegmnen bafi attcnuatum. 

 Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CYTISUS purpureus ; floribus axillaribus fubfolitariis pe- 

 dunculatis, calycis labio inferiore fubintegerrimOj 

 leguminibus lineanbus fupeme falcatis. 



CYTISUS purpureus; floribus pedunculatis folitariis, foliis 

 glabris, caulibus dccumbentibus frutefcentibus, le- 

 gaminibus fuperne falcatis. Jacq. Aujir, 5. App. 

 U 48. 



CYTISUS purpureus ; floribus axillaribus folitariis peduncu- 

 latis, caulibus procumbentibus, foliolis obovatis 

 leguminibufque linearibus fubrepandis. Willd. Sp. 

 Pi. 3. 1124. 



CYTISUS purpureas. Scop. Cam. 2. n. 905. /. 43. Zann % 

 Hi ft. p. 83. /. 2. 10. 



The purple-flowered Cytifus is a humble fhrub with weak 

 ftcms, which in the month of May are covered with a pro- 

 fiifion of flowers \ thefe, in cultivation, we have obferved 

 generally to come in pairs, though defcribed from native 

 Specimens as being folitary, The whole plant is fmooth 

 except the mouth of the calyx and the keel of the corolla* 

 which are villous, The calyx is bilabiate : the upper lip 

 emarginate, the lower appears to be entire, but when the 

 villofuy Ih rinks by drying is feen to be minutely three-toothed. 



A native of Carniola, where it was firft difcovered by 

 Wui.fen, and a figure and defcription of it were publifhcd 

 byjACQuiN, in the Appendix to his Flora Auftriaca. Is 

 Perfectly hardy. Introduced about the year 1790, we believe 

 by Mr. Loddiges. Our drawing was taken at Me firs. Wiut- 

 1-ey and Brame's, 01d-B romp ton. 



