Pirate XXVIII. 
CYTISUS uirsutus, Linn. 
Natural Order Lecuminosz. 
Section of genus Cytisus having long tubular calyces. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyz persistent, 2-lipped ; lips short, oval, divergent; 
the upper lip truncate or bifid; the lower three-toothed. Stigma 
oblique. Pod linear-oblong, compressed, greatly exceeding the calyx ; 
cotyledons leafy in germination.—Trees or shrubs without thorns ; leaves 
trifoliate, rarely unifoliate. Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 358. 
Spec. Cuar.—L lowers springing from the nodes ; pedicels about one- 
third of calyx. Calyx covered with spreading hairs ; lobes of upper lip 
obtuse. Standard obtuse, nearly orbicular. Pod hairy, nearly fiat. 
Leaves trifoliate or variously reduced by abortion, hairy. Stems hairy, 
erect, or ascending, woody. 
Cytisus hirsutus, Linn. Sp. Plant. 1042; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. 
i. 861; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 79. 
Hasirat.—Turin Valley, on sandstone. April. 
Remarxs.—Cytisus hirsutus, Linn., is perhaps the rarest Leguminous 
plant to be found at Mentone, as it appears that only one French ha- 
bitat was known to MM. Grenier and Godron when they published 
their ‘ Flore de France’ in 1848. This station was among the Alps of 
Dauphiné.* 
Exp.anatTion oF Puate XXVIII.—Fig. 1, the calyx and the repro- 
ductive organs, magnified. Fig. 2, a pod, of the natural size. 
* It is also found near Genoa and Lugano, and is said by De Candolle (Prodro- 
mus) to range from the former place to Hungary. 
