124 PULSE FAMILY. 



as is the whole plant); panicles terminating the branchlets of the season, 

 ample hanging (1° or more long) ; flowers delicately fragrant, cream- 

 white. May to June. Much planted. Still often known in- gardens as 



VlRGILIA LfjTEA. 



5. SOPHORA. (An ancient name of an allied plant.) 



S. Japdnica, Linn. Japan S. Tree 20°-50° high ; bark greenish ; leaf- 

 lets 11-13, oval or oblong acute, smooth ; panicles loose, terminating the 

 branches at the end of summer ; flowers cream-white ; fruit a string of 

 fleshy, 1-seeded joints. China. 



6. CROTAL ARIA, RATTLEBOX. (Greek : a rattle, the seeds rat- 

 tling in the inflated pod.) Native, in sandy soil; flowers yellow, in 

 summer. 



C. sagittilis, Linn. Low, 3'-6' high, branching, beset with rusty- 

 colored spreading hairs ; leaves nearly sessile, oval or lance-oblong ; pedun- 

 cles 2-3-flowered. ® N. and S. 



C. ov&lis, Pursh. Spreading, rough with appressed hairs ; leaves 

 short-petioled, oval, oblong, or lanceolate, hairy ; peduncle with 3-6 scat- 

 tered flowers. "U S. 



C. Purshii, DC. Stems erect, rough-hairy ; leaves smooth above, 

 oblong or linear ; racemes 6'-12' long, 6-10-flowered. S. % 



7. GENISTA, WO AD-WAXEN, WHIN. (Celtic: little bush.) 



G. tinctoria, Linn. Dyer's W. or Greenweed. Low and under- 

 shrubby, not thorny; leaves lanceolate; flowers bright yellow, rather 

 small, somewhat racemed at the end of the striate-angled green branches, 

 in early summer. Nat. from Eu. in sterile soil, N. Y. and Mass. 



8. ULEX, PURZE, GORSE, WHIN. (An old Latin name.) Cult. 



U. EuropcBusj Linn. 2°-6° high ; spines l'-2' long ; bracts large, 

 ovate ; calyx yellow, with black, spreading hairs, its teeth minute ; 

 flowers odorous. Eu. 



U. nanus, Smith. Dwarf P. l°-3° high ; spines shorter ; bracts 

 minute ; calyx with appressed hairs, its teeth lanceolate. W. Eu. 



9. CYTISUS. (Ancient Roman name of some plant.) 



# Hardy shrubs. 



C. scoparius, Link. Scotch Broom. 3°-5° high, smooth, with long 

 and tough, erect, angled, and green branches; leaves small, the lower 

 short-petioled and with leaflets 3, obovate, or the upper of a single sessile 

 leaflet, and large and showy golden-yellow flowers on slender pedicels in 

 the axils ; calyx with 2 short and broad lips ; style and stamens slender, 

 held in the keel, but disengaged and suddenly starting upward when 

 touched (as when bees alight on the deflexed keel), the style coiling 

 spirally ; pod hairy on the edges. Barely hardy N. ; running wild in 

 Va. and S. ; flowers early summer. Eu. 



C. capitatus, Jacq. 2°-4° high ; branches erect-spreading, strict, rough- 

 hairy ; leaves villous ; flowers yellow, numerous, crowded in terminal 



headlike umbels. Eu. „ ' . . 



* * Greenhouse shrubs. 



C. Canariensis, Steud. A shrub with crowded, slender, soft-hairy 

 leaves and leaflets 3, very small, obovate ; flowers small, yellow, sweet- 

 scented, in elongated racemes in late winter. Canary Islands ; cult, in 

 conservatories. 



