LEGUMENIFER. Ae k 
much exserted. Seeds numerous, with the depressed hilum covered 
by the dilated extremity of the funiculus. 
Shrubs with erect angulated green branches, not spinous. 
Leaves stalked, trifoliate : the upper ones subsessile and unifoliate. 
Stipules none. Flowers large, golden yellow, axillary, solitary 
and in pairs, stalked, drooping. 
The name is derived from capoc (saos), a broom, and Oapvoc (thamnos), a bush. 
SPECIES L_-SAROTHAMNUS SCOPARIUS. Koch. 
Puate CCCXXIX. 
S. vulgaris, “Wimmer.” Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 348. 
8. communis, “Wimm.” Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 48. 
Spartium scoparium, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1339. 
Genista scoparia, Zam. Dic. Vol. II. p. 623. 
Cytisus scoparius, Zink. Enum. Vol. II. p. 241. 
Leaves trifoliate, stalked, those from which the flowers are pro- 
duced sessile and frequently unifoliate. Style coiled, enlarged and 
furrowed at the apex. Pods much compressed, glabrous except on 
the margins. : 
On low hills, heaths, commons, waysides, and in woods. Very 
common, and generally distributed as far North as Sutherland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Spring and early Summer. 
A much-branched shrub 1 to 5 feet high, with green, deeply 
furrowed, straight branches. Leaves with the leaflets elliptical- 
obovate, + to 4 inch long; the petioles about as long as the leaflets, 
except those from which the flowers are produced. lowers on 
long pedicels, bright yellow, 1 inch long, arranged in racemes 
which are often combined so as to form panicles. Calyx widely 
bell-shaped, laterally compressed, divided by a shallow notch into 
an upper and lower lip, the two sepals of the upper and the three 
of the lower lip being only indicated by extremly short teeth ; both 
the divaricate lips becoming scarious at the margins. Pod 1% to 
21 inches long, linear-oblong, much compressed, bossulated over 
the seeds, black when ripe, hairy on the upper and lower sutures, 
the valves opening with elasticity and twisting upon their own axis 
when ripe. Seeds olive, roundish ovoid, compressed, shining, with 
an oval depression at the hilum, where the funiculus spreads out 
into a 2-lobed expansion. Plant deep green, hairy. 
Common Broom. 
French, Spartain & Balais. German, Besenartige Pfrienen. 
Of all our leguminous shrubs, the Broom is perhaps the favourite, and has, besides 
its own attractions, the interest of historic and poetic associations, It was not 
