CYTISUS. 



486. C. alpinus Mill. diet. No. 2, the Scotch Laburnum of 

 gardens, perhaps a variety of the last, has no doubt similar pro- 

 perties. 



487. C. scoparius Link enum. ii. 241. DC. prodr. ii. 154. — 

 Spartium scoparium Linn. sp. pi. 996. fl. dan. t. 313. Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1339. Fl Lond. v. t. 52. Woodv. t. 89. S. and C. 

 ii. t. 67. Genista scoparia Lam. diet. ii. 623. — Common in dry 

 sandy thickets, hedges, and fields. (Common Broom.) 



A large bushy shrub, with copious, long, straight, angular, dark-green, 

 smooth, tough branches. Leaves deciduous, scattered, stalked, ternate ; 

 the upper ones generally simple; leaflets uniform, obovate, obtuse, 

 entire ; silky when young. Fl. axillary, solitary, or in pairs, on simple 

 stalks, longer than the leaves, large and handsome, of a deep golden 

 yellow ; sometimes tinged with orange ; more rarely of a uniform pale 

 lemon-colour. The swelling ovary soon splits the tube of the fila- 

 ments. Legume brown, flat, above an inch long, nearly smooth at the 

 sides, but fringed with harsh hairs at each margin. Seeds about 15 or 

 16. Smith. — ■ Decoction of the young tops diuretic and cathartic; seeds 

 said to be emetic. Mead and Cullen found them useful in dropsy. 



ANTHYLLIS. 



Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, permanent after flowering, more 

 or less bladdery and inflated. Wings and keel of the corolla 

 about the same length as the vexillum ; stamens monadelphous. 

 Legume ovate, 1-2-seeded, rarely oblong-linear, and many- 

 seeded, always covered by the permanent calyx. DC. 



488. A. Hermanniae Linn. sp. pi. 1014. Bot. mag. t. 2576. 

 DC. prodr. ii. 169. — Aspalathus creticus Linn. sp. 1002. 

 Spartium spinosum Alp. exot. t. 26. Cytisus graecus Linn, sp. 

 1043. — Syria, Candia, and other Mediterranean islands. 



A much branched spiny smooth shrub. Leaves subsessile, simple 

 and trifoliate ; leaflets oblong cuneate smooth or with close-pressed 

 hairs. Heads few-flowered, nearly sessile in the upper axils. Flowers 

 small, yellow. — Roots diuretic. 



489. A. vulneraria Linn. sp. 1012. has had a great reputation 

 as one of the best of styptics. 



TRIGONELLA. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft. Vexillum and alae nearly equal, 

 spreading in the form of a 3-petalous corolla : keel very small, 

 spreading. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Legume conti- 

 nuous, oblong, compressed or cylindrical, acuminated, many- 

 seeded. — Herbaceous plants, with a heavy penetrating odour. 

 Leaves trifoliolate, the terminal leaflet stalked. W. and A. 

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