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down. Flowers axillary, on short pedicels. 
Calyx and pedicels silky. Legumes pu- 
bescent, and 3—4-seeded. (Dec. Prod.) 
A procumbent shrub. South of France, 
Switzerland, Germany, &c. ; and Britain, 
on dry elevated downs or heaths, in 
Suffolk, Cornwall, and North Wales. 
Height 1ft. Flowers yellow ; May and 
June. Legume brown; ripe in Sept. 
The specific name, pilosa, is certainly not “ 
very appropriate, for there are other species, 
such as G. candicans, much more hairy. 
Other Species of Genista.— G. spindsa, in the Hort. Soc. Garden, is a young 
plant with trifoliolate leaves, and the side shoots terminating in spines. There 
are various other names in collections, and a great many in books ; but the 
whole genus is in such a state of confusion, that nothing can be determined 
with certainty respecting the species, till they are all collected together and 
cultivated in the same garden and examined. 
Genus VII. 
alellalalJL 
CY’TISUS Dec. Tue Crtisus. Lin. Syst. Monadélphia Decandria. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 153. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 154. ae 
Synonymes. _C¥tisus and Spartium sp. Lin., Lam. &c.; Cytise, Fr.; Bohnenbaum, Ger. 3 Citiso, Ital. 
Derivation. From Cythnus, one of the Cyclades, the first of the species known having been found there. 
Gen Char, Calyx bilabiate. Upper Lip usually entire ; lower one somewhat 
tridentate. Vewillum ovate, large. Carina very obtuse, including the sta- 
mens and pistils. Stamens monadelphous. Legume compressed, many-seeded, 
glandless. (Don’s Mill.) ‘ 
Leaves trifoliolate, alternate, stipulate. Flowers of nearly all the species 
yellow.— Deciduous or sub-evergreen shrubs of short duration, or low trees ; 
natives chiefly of the Middle and South of Europe. 
All the species have trifoliolate leaves, and the flowers are for the most part 
yellow. The shrubs have the habit of Genista or of Spartium, to both which 
genera they are nearly allied. They are all ornamental, some of them eminently 
so ; and those which have their flowers in terminal racemes are decidedly more 
elegant than those which have them in close terminal, or in axillary heads. 
The wood of the laburnum is valuable in turnery and cabinet-work. All the 
species produce seeds in abundance, by which they are almost exclusively 
propagated. The species recorded in books are numerous ; but, if they were 
all brought together, and cultivated in the same garden, we question much if 
a tithe of them would be found specifically distinct. 
§ 1. Alburndides Dec. 
Derivation. From the word alburnum, signifying the white inner sap-wood of trees ; and applied 
to this section from the flowers of the species being white. 
Sect. Char. Calyx campanulate. Pod 1—4-seeded, not dilated at the upper 
suture. Flowers white. Leaves very few. Branches unarmed. (Dec. 
Prod., ii. p. 153.) 
% 1.C.a’tpus Link, The white Cytisus, or Portugal Broom. 
Identification, Link Enum., 2. p. 241. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 153.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 154. 
Synonymes. Genista albaLam. Dict. 2. p.623.; Spartium album Desf. Fl. Ail. 2. p.132.; Spartium 
multiflorum Az. Hort. Kew. 3.p.11.; Spartiam dispérmum Mench Meth. p.130.; Genista mul- 
tifldra N. Du Ham. 2. p.76.; Spartium a Fleurs blanches, J’r.; weisse Pfriemen, Ger. 
Engravings. N. Du Ham., 2. t. 23.; and our fig. a a 
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