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with green. The permanent calyx turns completely green 
at last, and wraps up the young pod, closing, and drooping 
to protect it from rain. It is altogether an elegant little 
plant, and ornaments the barren heath, mixed with the 
Pedicularis, before the heath flower makes its appearance. 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
CALYCIFLOR&. FABACED, 
CYTISUS. (Broom.) 
Generic Character. Calyx two-lipped. Standard of the flower, 
or upright petal, large and broad. eed enclosing the stamens. 
Seed-vessel flattened, many-seeded. 
Cyrisus scopartus. Common Broom. A well-known 
shrub in dry, hilly, bushy places. Its large, handsome, 
yellow flowers make it very conspicuous in such situations. 
When it flowers in profusion, the farmer has hopes of a 
good harvest ; for it is generally observed that when Broom 
flowers very freely, there is also promise of a plentiful crop. 
It is very attractive to bees. By some botanists it is called 
Genista scoparia, and is said to have given rise to the royal 
name Plantagenet, from a sprig of the Planta-genista being 
worn in the helmet of one of the ancestors of the family. 
