216 LEGUMINOS^, (pulse FAMILY.) 



at both ends. Flowers .02 long and broad, in loose, terminal racemes ; 

 pods glabrous, .07 long — Summer — Hillsides and rocky places; 

 common. 



.12. CYTISUS, L. Cytisus. 

 Calyx 2-lipped. Claws of petals free. All the stamens connate in 

 a closed tube. Pod flattened, oblong to linear, 2-valved. Seeds ca- 

 runcled — Shrubs, generally thornless, with digitate-trefoil, rarely sim- 

 ple, leaves. 



* Calyx tubular^ short-lijJj^ed. 



1. C. Ca§§uis, Boiss. 5 -3 to .6, branches erect, glabrous, crowd- 

 ed. Leaflett. twice as long as petiole, ohovate-cuneate, obtuse or acute, 

 the younger appressed-hairy beneath. Flowers 2-5, capitate ; upper 

 lip of hirsute calyx truncate, acutely 2-lobed, the lower split into 3, 

 linear teeth ; pods .025 long, .006 broad, densely woolly, oblong, rather 

 oltme — May and June — Woods ; Mt. Cassius. 



Var. inultiflorus, Post. Heads 8-12 flowered. Branches ap- 

 pressed-hirsute — Woods ; Mt. Cassius. 



2. C drepanolobus, Boiss. 5 .3 to .8, erect ; branches corym- 

 bose or panicled, appressed-hairy. Leaflets green, glabrous above, 

 sparingly appressed-hairy below, lenticular to eUi'ptical, or obovate-ob- 

 long. Flowers numerous, capitate, enclosed in an involucre of the up- 

 per leaves ; upper lip of hirsute calyx deeply bilobed, the lower split 

 into linear-awl-shaped teeth ; pods linear, .025 long, .006 broad, ap- 

 j)ressed hirsute, acute, falcate — May and June — Woods ; Mt. Cassius, 

 and northward. 



* * Calyx top-shaped, campanulate, with lips longer than tube. 



Fig. 91. 



3. C. candicans, L. 5 -^ to 1, branches 

 long, slender, striate, hirsute. Leaflets hirsute, 

 oblong, mucronate to cuspidate. Flowers 3-9, 

 in racemes at the ends of the twigs ; upper lip 

 of calyx bipartite to base, the lower entire ; 

 pods hirsute, falcate, linear, .03 long .005 

 broad, torulose. 



Var. Syriacu§, Post. Branches mor^ 

 slender ; upper leaflets acute — Summer — 

 Pine woods ; middle zone of Lebanon. ((7. 

 iSyriacus, Boiss. et Bl.) 



Pod of C. candicans. 

 Var. Syriacua 



13. ONONIS, L. Ononis. 



Calyx deeply 5-parted into nearly equal lobes. Keel beaked. Sta- 

 mens monadelphous. Anthers alternately short, versatile, and long, 

 fixed at base (except O. ornithopodoides, in which all the anthers are 

 uniform). Pod generally turgid, oblong or linear — Herbs, or rarely 

 shrubs, the stipules adnate to the petioles, and the leaves pinnately tre- 

 foil, or rarely of two pairs. 



* Perennials. 

 t Pod erect on a short, erect, not-jointed peduncle. 



