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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



tubercled at the buds, and rufesccnt at the apex. The leaves are simple, 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 3-seeded. It is a native of Dalmatia, and closely resembles 

 G. aethnensis and G. florida, but is more silky. (Don's Mil!., ii. p. 153., adapted.) 



G. tridentiita Lin. Sp., 998. , Brot. Fl. Lus., 2. p. 86. Branches shrubby, triquetrous, membranous, 

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

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

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

 denticulated. Shrub, 1 ft. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 153.) 



G. dlbidn Willd. Sp., 3. p. 942., Bieb. Fl. Taur., 2. p. 149. 3. p. 459. Stems procumbent, striated, 

 branched. Leaves lanceolate or linear, clothed with white hairs. Legume tomentose. Native of Tau- 

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

 p 153.) 



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-seeded. 

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

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



G. fheterophylla Dec. Prod., 2. p. 152. ; Ctftisus heterophyllus La Pei/r. 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 tampanulate, and hairy 

 Legume silky. A shrub, from 2 ft. to 4 ft. high ; found in the Pyrenees. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 152.) 



G. angulata G.Don, Rafin. Pre"c dec. Som., p. 37., under .S'partium. Unarmed. Branches pen- 

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

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

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



App. ii. Half-hardy Species of Genista. 



G. canaritnsis L., the Spartium albicans of Cavanilles, the Cytisus panicuttitus of Lois., and 

 the C. ramosissimus of Poir., (Bot. Reg., t. 217.) is a native of the Canary Islands and of Spain, 

 which has been an inhabitant of British green-houses since 1656. It is a showy shrub, growing 



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

 flowers, the petals 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. \inifblia L., Spartium /inifolium Desf., Cytisus /iniff.lius Lam., 

 Genistfildes linifulia Mccnch, (Bot. Mag., t. 442. ; and our jig. ;.'.) 

 is a native of the south of France.and of Spain, and also of Barbary. 

 It grows to the height of 6ft., 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. 



G. bifldra Dec., Spartium biflorum Desf. Fl. Atl., 2. p. 133. 1. 179., is 

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



yet introduced. 



. 



G. nucrophylla Dec., Spartium microphyllum Cav. Ann., 1801, p. 63., i 

 t. high, a native of the Grand Canary Island on mountains, not yet in 

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



Canary , 



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



G Mdent 'Cav. (Don's Mill., 2. p. 151.) grows 2ft. high in the north 

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



G. tegyptiaca 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. mrgata Dec., Spartium virgatum Ait., G. gracilis Poir., Cytisus tener 

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

 h ^ ^ Ope> ^grows to 2 ft. or 3 ft. high. It is a much-branched stiff 

 ah in" I P y> ratner mor e tender than the preceding species given 



G. amenta Dec., Spartium 'congestum WOM. t is a native of Teneriffe, 

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



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

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



GENUS VIII. 



s a shrub from 1 ft. to 

 troduced : unless this, 





C'Y'TISUS Dec. THE CYTISUS. Lin. Syst. Monadelphia Decandria. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 153. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 154. 



Synonymes. Cytisus and Spartium pecies Lin. and Lam. &c. ; Cytise, Fr. ; Bohmenbaum, Ger. 



Derivation. From Cythnus, one of the Cyclades, the first of the species known having been found 



