PART III. ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



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G. canaricntis. Page 588., after " Bot. Heg., t. 217.," add : 



" and o\\vfg. 2437." Add below : 

 " G. sptindcns Webb et Bert. Hist. Natur. des lies 



Canaries, t. 43., is a beautiful species not yet intro- 

 duced. 



" G. stenopetala Webb et Bert., 1. c. t. 45., is also a 



native of the Canaries, and not yet introduced." 



G. microphylla. 588., add after "Dec.:" "Webb et 

 Bert! Hist. Nat. des lies Can., t. 42." 



Cytisus Laburnum. 590., add to " Engravings: " 

 " and the plate of this tree in our Volumes of 

 Plates." 



591. 1. 5., for "p. 225.," read " p. 369. ;" and add to the 

 paragraph : " Our tree has, indeed, had the variety 

 and both the parents in flower at the same time; 

 the laburnum flowers producing seed. 

 " Other Varieties. In addition to these varieties, it may 

 be remarked, that some plants of both C. Xaburnum and 

 C. alpinus have been found with fragrant flowers and 

 that these varieties have been propagated by grafting, and may be had in 

 the nurseries, under the names of C. L. fragrans, and C. a. odorata." 



Statistics. 593. 1. 32., add after full stop : " In Northumberland, at Alnwick 

 Castle, are three very fine laburnums ; the largest of which, in Oc- 

 tober, 1835, measured 6 ft. 11 in. in circumference, and contained 46ft. 

 of measurable timber. The three trees containing in all 118 ft. of 

 timber." 



C. scoparius. 596. last line, after the full stop, add : " A decoction of the re- 

 cent shoots is used by shepherds, in the north of Scotland, for dressing 

 the backs of sheep, instead of tobacco-water. D. Beaton" 



C. Weldeni. 601., add to the last line: " There are plants bearing this name 

 in the Horticultural Society's Garden, which bear great resemblance 

 to young plants of C. alpinus." 



C. proliferus. 602., to the paragraph headed " C. proliferus," add: "It has 

 stood in the open air, against a wall, at Chiswick, since 1836. 



602., add to the Half-hardy Species : 



"* C. (Bolicus Guss., Bot. Reg., t. 1902., Swt. 



Brit. Fl. Gard., and our fig. 2438., has the 



branches round, and, as well as the leaves, hoary. 



Leaves trifoliate ; leaflets oval, tomentose on the 



margin. Flowers ternate, almost bractless, ra- 

 cemose. Calyx membranaceous, campanulate, pu- 

 bescent. Legume glabrous. A tall hoary shrub, 



with yellow, campanulate, pubescent flowers, and 



the young legumes glabrous. A native of Stromboli. 



Introduced in 1835, by the Honourable W. 



Fox Strangways, in whose garden it flowered for 



the first time in May, 1836. There is a fine plant 



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against a wall in the Horticultural Society's Gar- 

 den. ' In foliage,' Dr. Lindley observes, ' it bears 

 a striking resemblance to C. proliferus ; but its 

 flowers are altogether different. Its real affinity seems to be with C. triflorus, 

 from which it differs in being a much larger and more woody plant, with 

 terminal racemes of flowers; in its larger, deeper, and more distinctly 

 campanulate calyx, and smooth, not hairy, pods. It seems as if it were 

 an intermediate species between C. Laburnum and C. triflorus.' {Bot. Reg.) 

 " * C. elegans Ait. A tall evergreen shrub, a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, introduced in 1821, has stood out against a wall in front of one of the 

 houses at Kew for several years, and is among the most beautiful species of 

 the genus. 



