ORD. XXIV. Papilionacee. 415 
SPARTIUM SCOPARIUM. _ COMMON BROOM. 
SYNONYMA, Genista.. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Gerard. 
Emac. p. 1311. Genista angulosa & scoparia. Bauh. Pin. p. 
395. Genista vulgaris & scoparia. Park. Theat. p. 228. Ge- 
nista angulosa trifolia. J. Bauh. Hist. vol. i. p. 388. Ray Hist, 
p. 1723. Synop. p. 474. Spartium foliis inferioribus ternatis 
hirsutis superioribus simplicibus. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 354; 
Spartium scoparium. Hudson. Flor. Ang. p. 310. Withering.. 
Bot. Arrang. p. 756. Flor. Dan. p. 313. 
Ciass Diadelphia. Ord. Decandria: Lin. Gen. Plant. 858. 
_ Ess. Gen. Ch. *Stigma longitudinale, supra villosum. Filamenta: 
germini adherentia.. Cal. deorsum productus, 
Sp. Ch. §. foliis ternatis solitariisque, ramis inermibus angulatis. 
THE réot is woody, tough, and extends to a considerable length: 
the stalk is shrubby, branched, and covered with light brown bark : 
it usually rises from four to six feet in height, and sends forth a 
great number of slender angular green shoots: the leaves are small, 
downy, divided into three oval leafits, and standing upon footstalks 
of different lengths: the flowers are large, numerous, of the papilio- 
naceous shape, and‘ of a bright yellow colour: the calyx is tubular, 
divided transversely at the margin into two lips, of these the upper- 
most is entire, the undermost slightly notched: the corolla is com- 
posed of five petals: the superior, or standard petal, is inversely 
heart-shaped, and bent backwards: the two lateral petals, or wings, 
are oblong, convex, less than the standard, and united to sa 
filaments: the keel is. composed of the two undermost petals, 
which are connected together by soft hairs at the margin, so as to 
appear keel-shaped: the filaments 4re ten, nine of which are united 
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