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C. dibidus Dec. Stems erect. Branches round, spreading, and rather glabrous, Leaflets oblong, 
pubescent beneath, a3 well as the calyxes. Flowers white, axillary, usually in threes, footstalked. 
Calyx with both lips entire. Ovary pubescent. A native of the south of Europe and north of Africa. 
(Dec. Prod., ii. 155.) 
C. bifldrus L’Herit. Stirp., 184., Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 52., Waldst. et Kit. Hung., 2. p. 166. N. 
Du Ham., 5. t. 45. f.2.; C. supinus Jacg. Fl. Austr., 1. t. 20.; C. hirsutus Gmel. Sib., 4. p. 17. t. 6. 
f.2.; C. hirsitus and C.supinus Bieb. Fl. Taur. ex Stev. in Litt. ; C. macrospermus Bess in Litt. 
Stems diffuse. Branches round, and, as wellas the leaves, rather downy. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate. 
Flowers on short peduncles, axillary, and usually in pairs, Calyxes and pods clothed with close 
silky down. A native of Austria, Pannonia, Podolia, Tauria, and Siberia. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 155.) 
The names of C, hirsitus and C. supinus appear to have been confused together, and both applied 
by botanists, not only to this plant, but to others. (See p. 599.) 
arieties. 
C. b. 2 glaber Lin. Fil. Suppl., 325., has the branches and leaves glabrous; and the leaflets 
obovate. (Zbid.) 
C. b. 3 subspinéscens Dec. has the branches rather hoary, more diffuse, somewhat spinescent 
atthe apex. Native of Naples and Hungary. (Jbid.) 
C. serétinus Kit. in Litt. Stems ascending. Branches round, hairy. Leaflets obovate, glabrous 
above, and rather hairy beneath. Flowers axillary, 2—3, pedicellate. Calyxeshairy. Native of 
Hungary. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 155.) 
C. pygme‘us Willd. Spec., 3. p. 112K Stem procumbent, suffruticose. Leaves petiolate, 3-leafieted ; 
leaflets oblong-lanceolate, silky. Flowers usually at the ends of the branches. Pods oblong, and 
hairy. A native of Galicia. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 155.) 
C. pénticus Willd. Spec., 3. p 1120., exclusive of the synonyme of Tourn. ; C. ponticus humifisus 
magno fldre Tourn. Cor., 44. ; Has ascending furrowed branches, which are, like the leaves, pubescent. 
Leaves with three elliptic obtuse leaflets. Racemes of flowers erect and terminal. Calyxes villous. 
A shrub, a native of Pontus, as is implied by the specificname. Willdenow, however, gives quite a dif- 
ferent description of C. pénticus, which, according to him, is allied to Adenocarpus hispanicus, 
and has round branches, not furrowed ; and obovate leaflets, not elliptic. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 157.) 
C. canéscens Lois in N. Du Ham., 5. p.151. The whole plant is clothed with silky hoary pubes- 
cence. Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets linear-oblong. Racemes few-flowered and terminal. Calyxes 
short, campanulate, canescent, 5-toothed. Country and legumes unknown. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 157.) 
There are several plants bearing this name at Syon, but they do not appear to be the same as the 
species here described. ; 
C. africanus Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 154.; C. africanus hirsitus angustifdlins Tourn. Inst., 
648. Branches erect, hairy. Leaves trifoliolate, with petioles ; leaflets linear and pilose. Flowers 
stalked, in terminal umbels. Calyx hairy, hardly shorter than the corolla. A native of the north o 
Africa. This plant is said to be allied to Adenocarpus. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 157.) ’ 
C. procérus Link Enum., 2. p. 241.; Spartium proctrum Wiild. Enum., 742. Branches round and 
striated. Leaves lanceolateand downy. Flowers solitary and axillary. Pods hairy. A shrub, a 
native of Portugal. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 157.) 
C. ? pérsicus Burm. Fl. Ind., p. 163. t. 51. f.1.; Spartium pérsicum Willd. Sp., 3. p.931.; has the 
branches upright and spreading: both the branches and the leaves are finely pubescent. Leaves 
trifoliolate, with footstalks ; leaflets linear, those in the middle being twice the length of the others, 
Racemes elongated and loose-flowered, opposite the leaves. Ovary villous. A shrub, anative of 
Persia, with nearly the habit of Indigéfera psoraledides; and, ifthe stamens, as is suspected, are 
diadelphous, it is certainly referable to Indigofera. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 157.) 
App. il. Half-hardy Species of Cytisus. 
C. proltferus L., Dec. Prod., 2. p. 155. Don’s Mill., 2. p. 155., Bot. Reg., 
t. 121. Bot. Cab., t. 761. and our fig. 294., is a Teneriffe shrub, with white 
flowers, cultivated in green-houses since 1769, and flowering in April and 
May. It grows to the height of from 4 ft. to 6 ft. ; and, as, in its native coun- 
try, it is found on mountains, it is probably half-hardy. 
C. pallidus Poir., Dec. Prod., 2. p.157., Don’s Mill., 2. p. 157., is a native 
of the Canaries, growing to the height of 2 ft. or 3ft., and bearing a general 
resemblance to Genista dinifdlia, of which it is probably only a variety. 
C. nubigenus Link. Enum., 2. p.240.; Spartium nubigenum A/zt, Hort. 
Kew., 3. p. 13.3 S. supranubium Linn, Fil. Suppl., 319.; C¥tisus fragrans 
Lam. Dict.; has the flowers fragrant. It is a native of the Peak of ‘Tene- 
riffe, and was introduced by P. B. Webb, Esq. It is in the nursery of 
Messrs. Young, at Epsom, and flowered with them in May, 1835. 
C. bracteoldtus Hort. with racemes of golden yellow powerfully fragrant 
flowers, C. tetragonéviadus Hort. also fragrant, and C. sacemdsus Hort., 
are all Canary and Teneriffe species, which have been introduced by Mr. 
Webb, and have flowered in the nursery of Messrs. Young and Penny, at 
Milford, near Godalming. The Canary Isles appear to be rich in species of 
this genus; and as most of the kinds brought from that country are not 
only very handsome, but fragrant, they will probably prove valuable addi- 
tions to our green-houses and conservative walls. Whenever a new species 
of the Cytisus is introduced from the warmer parts of the old world, it ought 
to be tried first in a green-house, or in a cold-pit or frame. It will soon, in 
all probability, ripen seeds, from which plants may be raised, and tried either 
at the base of a conservative wall, or on a bank of dry sandy soil, covered 
with large stones. 
App. ili. Anticipated hardy and half-hardy Species of Cytisus. 
The seeds of a number of species of Cytisus have been collected in Teneriffe an 
by Philip Barker Webb, Esq., and sent by him to the Milford Nursery, where Se ere pes 
from them. Among these there will, no doubt, be some undescribed species, among numbers al- 
ready known and recorded ; but, if care be not taken to identify the latter, it is probable that the 
whole will, as is usually the case, be described as new ; and thus additional names will be introduced 
into this genus, which, in our opinion, is already sufficiently confused. 

