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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART in. 



tubercled at the buds, and rufescent at the apex. The leaves are eimple, lanceolate, entire, small. 

 The flowers are in crowded racemes, the pedicels all leaning to one side. Wings smooth, shorter 

 than the keel Legumes pendulous, 2— o-seeded. Tt is a native of Dalmatia, and closely resembles 

 O a^thni-nsis and G. florida, but is more silky. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 15^, adapted.) 



G tridentuta Lin. Sp, 09S. , Brot. Fl. Lus, 2. p. 86. Branches shrubby, triquetrous, membranous, 

 somewhat articulated. Leaves ovate, tridentate at the ape.x, glabrous. Flowers disposed into 

 crowded, terminal, and lateral heads. Carina and legumes clothed with silky wool. Native ot Portugal, 

 on uncultivated hills and among bushes. Wings of stem rather undulated, with the raargms roughly 

 denticulated. Shrub, 1 ft. {Don's Mill., ii. p. 1;33.) , . , 



G dlhida Willd. Sp., 3. p. 942., Bieb. Fl. Taur., 2. p. HP. 3. p. 4o9. Stems procumbent, striated, 

 branched. Leaves lanceolate or hnear, clothed with white hairs. Ix?gume tomentose. Native of Tau- 

 ria and Bessarabia, on stony mountains. Allied to G. pilusa. Shrub procumbent {Don's Mill., ii. 



^ G micrdntha Ort. Dec., 6. p. 68. 1. 10. f. 1. Stems procumbent, smooth, angular. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate. Flowers disposed in terminal spikes, distant Carina rather villous. Legume 2— 3-see<led. 

 Native of Spain, in humid places, in the wood called Corazo, near Silos. Flowers m May and June. 

 Shrub, procumbent (Don's Mill., ii. p. 152.) 



G ? heterophylla Dec. Prod., 2. p. 152. ; Cytisus hetcrophyllus Ln Peyr. Abr., 422. Erect stems, 

 and angular branches, the sterile ones hairy. Leaves simple, obovate, on short petioles, and clothed 

 with silky down. Flowers usually in threes, axillary, pedunculate. Calyxes campanulate, and hairy 

 Legume silky A shrub, from 2 ft. to 4 ft. high ; found in the Pyrenees. {Dec. I'rod. .ii. p. 152.) 



G anguldla G Don, Ilafin. PrLC dec. Som., p. 37., under .Spartium. Unarmed. Branches pen- 

 tagonal, glabrous. Leaves simple and trifoliolate, stalked ; leaflets thin, oblong, mucronate, almost 

 smooth. Legume solitary, pcilunculate, oblong, compressed, pubescent Native of Maryland, in 

 woods. Shrub, from 2 ft' to 3 It {Don's Mill., ii. p. 153.) 



App. ii. Half-hardy Species of Genista. 



G eanariensii L , the Spartium Albicans of Cavanilles, the Cytisus panicul^tu8 of Lois., and 

 the "C ramosissimus of Poir., {Bot. Rce., t 217.) is a native of the Canary Islands and of Spain, 

 which has been an inhabitant of British green-houses since 16;">6. It is a showy shrub, growing 

 to the height ol 8 ft. or 10 ft ; very leafy, with terminal heads ol 

 }1(J>3 flowers, the |>etals of which are of a cream colour. In dry warm 



situations, it will grow in the open air with very little protection. 

 A plant has stood out against a wall in the Horticultural Society's 

 garden since 1832. 



G. linifdlia L., .Spartium /inifcMiura Desf., CVtisus /inifiMius Lam., 

 Genistiiides /initulia Munch, {Rot. Map., t. 442. ; and our Jig. 280.) 

 is a native of the south of France .and of .S|)ain, and also of Barbary. 

 It grows to the height of 6 ft., and flowers in our green-houses from 

 January to June. It has been in cultivation since 1739; but, from 

 its flowering in the winter season, it is not so well adapted for the open 

 air as most of the half-hardy species. It is, however, an admirable 

 plant for a conservative wall, where the protection is a glass case. 



a. bilidra Dec, Spartium biflurum Desf. Fl. All., 2. p. 1*3. t. 179., i.i 

 a shrub from 1 ft. to 3 ft. high, a native of the north of Africa, not 

 yet introduceiL 



G. microphijlla Dec, Spartium microphyllum Cav. ^nn.,1801, p. fi3., is a shrub from 1 ft. to 

 3ft. high, a native of the Grand Canary Island on mountains, not yet introduced; unless this, 

 and other species from the Canary Islands, should have been sent 

 home, by Philip Barker Webb, Esq., to the Milford Nursery. 



G. lr\dens Cav. {Don's Mill., 2. p. 151.) grows 2 ft high in the north 

 of Africa, about Tangier, but has not yet been introduced. 



G. tpgypt'iiica Spreng. grows to the height of 2 ft in Egypt, and ap- 

 proaches very near to G. hispanica, of which it is probably only a variety. 



G. virgdta Dec., Spirtium virgatum Ait., G. gracilis Poir., cYtisustfener 

 Jac. Icon. Rar., t 147., and our fig. 281., is a handsome shrub, a native of 

 Madeira, growing to the height of 3 ft. or 4 ft., and flowering from March 

 to July. It has been an inhabitant of our green-houses since 1777, but 

 will grow against a wall with very little protection. 



G. cuspidosa Dec., Spartium cuspidatum Burch., is a native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope, and grows to 2 ft. or 3 ft. high. It is a much-branched stiff 

 shrub, and, probably, rather more tender than the preceding species given 

 as half-hardy. 



G. congisia Dec., Spartium congestum IVilM., is a native of Teneriffe, 

 nearly allied to G. virgata, and, doubtless, only a variety of it 



G. desiderata Dec, a native of Port Desideratum, and G. scandens Lois., 

 a native of Cochin-China, are very doubtful plants, and probably belong to 

 a different tribe. 



Genus VIII. 



LiizJuyUu 



CY'TISUS Dec. The Cytisus. Lin. Syst. Monadelphia Deciindria. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 153. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. l.W. 



Synonymes. C^isus and Sp&rtium species Lin. and Lam. &c ; Cytise, Fr. ; Bohmenbaum, Ger. 

 Derivation. From Cyt/inus, one of the Cyclades, the first of the species known having been found 

 there. 



