( 2260 ) 

 Spartium radiatum. Starry Broom. 



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Class and Order. 



DlADELPHlA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Stigma longitudinal^ supra villosum. Filamenta ger- 

 mini adhaerentia. Cat. deorsum productus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Spartium radiatum ; foliis ternatis linearibus., petiolis dila- 

 tatis persistentibus, racemis capitatis terminalibus, 

 ramis angulatis. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 934. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. alt. 4. p. 257. 



Spartium radiatum; foliis ternatis linearibus sessilibus, 

 petiolis persistentibus, ramis oppositis angulatis. Sp. 

 PL 996. Mill. icon. t. 259. /. 1. 



Spartium radiatum; ramis oppositis tetragonis stipula 

 foliorum persistente fultis, apice umbellatim floriferis, 

 foliis ternatis linearibus subverticillatis. Jacq. Col- 

 lect. 3 p. 83. 



Spartium minimum montanum triphyllon. Col. Ecphr. 1. 

 p. 295. t. 294. fig. bona. 



Genista radiata ; foliis oppositis ternatis linearibus, petio- 

 lis persistentibus brevissimis dorso tricarinatis. Lam. 

 Encycl. 2. p. 622. 



Genista radiata. Scop. Cam. 2. p. 51. 



Genista radiata seu stellaris. Bauh. Hist. 1. part 2. 

 p. 399. cum icone. Raj. Hist. 1727. 



The ternate subulate leaves of this plant being opposite, 

 ^ive it a verticillated aspect, which at once distinguishes it 

 from the rest of the genus. Lamarck observes that there 

 are no characters in the fructification by which Spartium 

 and Genista can be distinguished from each other ; on 



which 



