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Spartium virgatum. Long-twigged 

 Broom. 



Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Stigma Iongitudinale, supra villosum. Filamenta ger- 

 mini adhaerentia. Cat deorsum productus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Spartium virgatum; foliis simplicibus lanceolatis, ramis 



virgatis striatis diffusis, racemis tenninalibus. L'Herit. 



Stirp. nov. 2. p. 183 : in conspectu fasciculi septimi 



nunquam editi. 

 Spartium virgatum ; ramis teretibus striatis, foliis lanceo- 



lato-oblongis sericeis, calycibus infundibuliforniibus 



bilabiatis hirtis, vexillo carinaque pubescentibus. 



Hort. Kew. ed. 1.3. p. 11. 

 Spartium virgatum ; ramis teretibus striatis, floribus axil- 



laribus solitariis subracemosis, vexillis carinaque pu- 



bescentibus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis sericeis. Willd. 



Sp. PL 3. p. 928. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 255. 

 Cytisus tener; foliis simplicibus lanceolatis, ramis teretibus. 



St/st. Veg. ed. 14. p. 667. Jacq. Collect. 1. p. 40, Ic. 



Tar. 1. t. 147. 

 Genista gracilis. Poiret Encycl. Rot. 2. p. 715, 



In our specimens the flowers grow constantly in terminal 

 few-flowered racemes, on very short branches, and are so 

 described in Jacquin's Collectanea. Willdenow, however, 

 has altered the character, and described the flowers as axil- 

 lary and solitary, on which account we have preferred that 

 given by L'Heritier. We suspect that specimens of 



Spartil"H 



