CYTISUS CAPITATUS. 



HEADED CYTISUS. 

 Class. Order. 



DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 



Natural Order. 



LEGUMIHOS^E. 



No. 90. 



A term similar to our Cytisus was in use amongst 

 the ancient Greeks, whence ours has been derived. 

 The particular plant which then bore the appellation 

 was said, by Pliny, to have been found in the isle of 

 Cythnus, one of the Cyclades, from which circum- 

 stance the Greek name is supposed to have origina- 

 ted. Capitatus, from the Latin, growing with a 

 head ; in allusion to its terminal mode of inflores- 

 cence, shown by the annexed representation. 



The Cytisus, of which about twenty shrubby spe- 

 cies are cultivated in England, is a general favou- 

 rite in the pleasure grounds. The Cytisus Labur- 

 num is universally known, and as generally admired ; 

 and our present subject, though far more humble, 

 is by no means wanting in attraction. 



This species of Cytisus, like several others, ripens 

 its seed in our climate ; and young plants are more 

 conveniently raised from them than by any other 

 means. They should be sown in a light soil in 

 March, and in about two months the young plants 

 will appear. At one year old they should be trans- 

 planted to a nursery bed, and finally moved in the 

 following spring. 



Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 320. 



