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16. LEGUMINOS^E. 



hir^e, yellow, scented, in long, 

 loose, terminal racemes ; calyx 

 scarious, split to the base on the 

 upper side, so as to form one lip 

 with 5 small teeth; bracts and 

 bracteoles very deciduous ; keel 

 with a curved beak ; pod long, 

 compressed, linear, black, and 

 almost glabrous when ripe, with 

 12-18 seeds. 



IJoadsides: Grange; Coroman- 

 <lel Valley; Waterfall Gully.— 

 Oct. - Dec. — Mediterranean re- 

 gion; naturalised in California 

 and South America. Called 

 Genet il'Espagne in France and 

 lietaina dc rAnr in Spain. 



3. Cytisus, L. 



Upper lip of calyx 2-toothed or 

 2-l()bed, lower lip 3 toothed ; pod 

 longer than the calyx, compress- 

 ed ; seeds carunculate. 



Flowers in loose, leafy racemes. 

 Style coiled into a circle; flowers yellow 

 Style merely incurved; flowers white ... 

 Flowers in terminal racemes or umbels. 

 Flowers yellow, on short pedicels, in com- 

 pact, headlike racemes. 



Calyx short, campanulate 



Calyx long', tubular 



Flowers white, on long pedicels, in loo«c 

 umbels 



Spartium junceum. 



C. 



c. 



c. 

 ('. 



r. 



sctjpdniis 

 nlhus 2 



canarloisis 3 



I'lni Julius 4 



2)ro/iferus 5 



Caiiitnon Brofjin. 

 angular branches, 



1. Cytisus scoparius, Jiiuk. 

 Erect shrub, with long dark-green, wiry 



often almost leafless; lower leaves broadly .stalked, leaflets 

 silky-downy below; upper leaves sessile, oval, simple; flowers 

 large, yellow, usually solitary in the axil, forming leafy 

 racemes ; calyx glabrous, teeth very small ; style long, 

 curved into a circle, enlarged under the stigma ; pod 4-5 

 cm. (li-2 in.) long, oblong, very flat, black when ripe, long- 

 haired on the edges, containing 6-15 shining seeds. 



Gullies and creeks, ^Nlouut Lofty Range. — Aug. -Nov. — 

 Europe. 



2. C. albus, Link. Wiiife Biudiii. Slender under- 

 shrub ; branches grooved; leaflets 1-3. small, lanceolate, 

 clustered, with incurved edges, covered Avith a grey-silky 

 down; flowers white, in axillary clusters of 2-4; calyx downy, 

 .scarious in the upper part, teeth very small ; bracteoles min- 

 ute ; pod 2-3 cm. (about 1 in.) long, flat, linear-oblong, downy 

 with appi-es.sed hairs, edges thickened, bearing l-o seeds. 



lioadsides, Helair. Sept. -Nov. Spain, North Africa. 



