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Cytisus canariensis. 



S. C. canariensis, Steudel. 



Cananj Uronm. Erect, downy, 

 and villous iindershrnb : branches 

 grooved ; leaves on short petioles 

 and leaflets on short petioliiles; 

 flowers yellow, solitary, axillary, 

 usually towards the ends of short 

 hranchlets, but the terminal 

 flowers appear as a dense raceme 

 or head owing to the abortion 

 of their leaves; calyx downy, 

 teeth conspicuous ; bracteoles 

 linear; pod 20-2o mm. (5-1 in.) 

 long, linear-oblong, villous, with 

 4-6 seeds. 



Roadsides and gidlies, Mount 

 Lofty Range, even penetrating 

 into the scrub. — Aug. - Feb. — 

 Canary Islands. 



4. C. iinifoiius, Lamarck. 



Erect undershrub ; branches stiff, 

 grooved, white -downy; leaves 

 rather large, sessile, tougli, with 



recurved edges, silky-downy below ; flowers yellow, 3-8 in 

 dense terminal racemes, leafy at base, calyx tubular, silky, 

 with divergent lips, the upper one divided almost to the 

 ba.se into 2 lanceolate teeth, the upper one trifid ; bracteoles 

 linear, attached at base of calyx ; pod lo-20 mm. (J in.) 

 long, linear-oblong, villous, containing 2-4 seeds. 



AVaterfall Gully.— July-Nov. -Spain ; North Africa. 



o. C. proiiferus, L. Tatjosasfc. Shrub or small 

 tree, with long, slender, drooping, white-downy branchlets ; 

 leaves on short broad petioles, leaflets lanceolate, green 

 and glabrous above, downy below ; flowers white, on long 

 downy pedicels in umbel-like clusters of 8-8, mostly at the 

 ends of short latei-al branches; calyx tubular, downy, with 

 2 long, linear bracteoles attached below its base: pod downy, 

 several-seeded. 



Grown as a hedge, and recommended as a fodder 

 plant; spontaneous in places. — July-Oct. — Canary Islands. 



Lotus Tt'Jrnqonolohvs, L. (Winged Pea), a softly villous 

 annual, with solitary or twin flowers of a rich purple, and 

 a long, quadrangular, 4-winged pod, is a garden escape in 

 places in the Mount Lofty Range. — Mediterranean region. 

 L. corniciilafus, L. (Bird's-foot Trefoil), has appeared near 

 Murray Bridge in a very villous form, suggesting its in- 

 troduction from Europe, as the forms of this species con- 

 sidered native to Australia are glabrous or almost so. It 

 has 3-10 yellow flowers in umbels on very long petluncles; 

 pods linear-cylindrical, not winged; perennial. 



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