CLASS XVII. ORDER II. | CXYTISUS. 959 
Root of long slender wiry branches. Stems tortuous, numerous, 
round, much branched and scarred, smooth, putting up numerous 
slender striated twigs, clothed with close pressed silky hairs, and 
beset with fascicles of leaves, of an oblong lanceolate or oblong shape, 
smooth above, covered beneath with silky pubescence. Inflorescence 
axillary flowers towards the end of the branches, the peduncles as well 
as the striated calyx silky. Corolla small, bright yellow, the keel and 
vexillum silky. Legume oblong, somewhat compressed, silky. Seeds 
few. 
Habitat.—Dry sandy or gravelly downs and heaths; about Bury, 
Suffolk; on the forest by the road side from Maresfield to Groom- 
bridge, Sussex; near the Lizard, Cornwall; foot of Cader Idris, 
North Wales. 
Shrub ; flowering in May, and again in September. 
ox Stem spinous. 
3. G. An’glica, Linn. (Fig. 1111.) Needle Green-weed, or Petty- 
whin. Stem spinous, and without leaves below the flowering 
branches, smooth, leafy, and unarmed; leaves ovate lanceolate ; 
flowers racemose; bracteas leafy, longer than the peduncle; legume 
smooth, the apex hooked with the indurated base of the style. 
English Botany, t 182.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 263.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 267 —Lindley, Synopsis, p. 77. 
fioot of long spreading slender branches. Stem declining, round, 
much branched, and thickly beset with sharp slender simple rarely 
branched spines, which are the small branchlets of the preceding 
year. The terminal branchlets are clothed with leaves and flowers. 
Leaves ovate lanceolate, small, smooth, a somewhat glaucous green, 
the small ones linear, acute. Inflorescence axillary solitary flowers 
from the bosom of the upper leaves. Peduneles round, slender, 
smooth, as well as the calyx. Bractea roundish, ovate, leafy, on a 
short stalk. Calyx teeth deep cut and spreading. Corolla yellow, 
becoming greenish by drying, the keel much longer than the 
vexillum. Legume smooth, ovate, turgid, hooked with the persistent 
base of the style. Seeds several, shining, black. 
Habitat.—Heaths and moory ground ; not unfrequent. 
Shrub ; flowering in June. 
GENUS VI. CYT'ISUS.—Liyy. Cytisus, or Broom. 
Nat. Ord. Papitiona’caz. Lynn. 
Grn. Cuar. Calyx two lipped, the upper lip mostly entire, the 
lower one slightly three toothed. Veaillum ovate, large, keel 
very blunt. Stamens monodelphous. Legumes compressed, flat, 
many seeded.—Name xuzioos, of the ancient Greeks; and 
