LEGUMINOSAE. : 145 
SPaRTIUM. Spanish Broom. 
(Family Leguminosae). 
Shrubs with elongated rush-like 
stems: deciduous. Shoots moder- 
ately slender, terete,  striate- 
ridged: pith rather large, some- 
what angular, white, continuous. 
Buds small, solitary, shorter than 
the much elongated leaf-cushion, 
the end-bud lacking. lLeaf-scars 
opposite or more commonly those 
of a pair widely separated, mi- 
nute: bundle-trace 1, indistinct 
when the leaf-base is shriveled: 
stipule-scars lacking. 
Spartium, which is called Spar- 
tianthus sometimes, represents an 
extreme case of the persistence 
of a prolonged leaf-cushion or 
petiole-base, which here far ex- 
ceeds in length the subtended 
bud. The condition is figured by 
Lubbock, On Buds and Stipules, 
81, f. 124; and Schneider, f. 75. 
Glabrous, green, not pungent, though tapered at end. 
S. junceum. 
