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Class and Order. Lot 
DiapeteHia DecanprRiA. 
Generic Character. 
Stigma longitudinale, supra villosum. | Filam. germitii 
_ adherentia. Cal. deorsum productus. : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Spartium @inense ; inerme, ramis teretibus striatis pro- 
pendentibus, foliis linearibus sericeis (caducis), race- 
mis terminalibus, leguminibus subtetraspermis. Bivon. 
Stirp. rar. Sicil. man.2. Rafin. Chl. ethn. ex De Cand. 
Genista ethnensis ; erecta ramosissima, foliis paucis lineari- 
bus sericeis, racemis terminalibus, petalis glabriusculis 
longitudine subequalibus, leguminibus oblique ovatis 
compressis 2—3-spermis ; junioribus pubescentibus. 
De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 150. n. 48. See 
_Spartium trispermum. Smith in Rees Cycl. n. 5. 
Descr. A small shrub with many alternate, rounded, 
streaked, glaucous, pensile branches, in the flowering 
State altogether without leaves. Flowers sweet scented, 
alternate, nearly sessile, or on very short peduncles, with- 
out bractes. Calyx five-toothed : teeth obtuse, scariose, 
Spreading. Vexillum nearly round, emarginate, reflexed : 
ale shorter by half than the vexillum, bowed. Carina 
equal to the alz, pubescent, united at the point. Stamens 
all connected. Style incurved. Stigma capitate. 
This shrub very much resembles the Spartrum junceum — 
or Spanish broom, but is much smaller in all its parts ; 
flowers not half the size, branches much more slender and. 
more glaucous. 
Spartium and Genista have been long ago united by 
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