O14 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM,. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches terete, twiggy. Leaves simple, 
and trifoliolate, sessile. Leaflets linear-oblong, and silky. 
Flowers in fascicles, disposed in long racemes. Legume 
2-seeded, very villous. (Don’s Mill.) An upright shrub; 
evergreen, from the colour of its numerous straight parallel 
young shoots. Portugal and the Levant. Height 5 ft. 
to 7 ft. Introduced in 1752. Flowers white; May and 
June. Legume brown ; ripe in August. : 
A very handsome shrub, more especially when covered 
with its white flowers in May, and when surrounded by 
hundreds of bees, busily occupied in extracting the honey. 
In good soil, it is of very rapid growth, attaining the height 
of 5 or 6 feet in 8 or 4 years ; and, in 6 or 8 years, growing 
as high as 15 or even 20 feet, if in a sheltered situation. 
Placed by itself on a lawn, it forms a singularly ornamental 
plant, even when not in flower, by the varied disposition 
and tufting of its twiggy thread-like branches. When in 
flower, it is one of the finest ornaments of the garden. 
Trained to a single stem, its effect is increased ; and, grafted 
on the laburnum, a common practice about Paris, it forms 
a very remarkable combination of beauty and singularity. Gag 4 
Plants are easily raised from seeds. 339. Cytisus Albus. 
Variety. 
% C, a. 2 incarndtus has flesh-coloured flowers, or flowers very slightly 
tinged with reddish purple. This variety was introduced in 1818; 
and reproduces itself from seeds, but it varies much in the quantity 
of colour in the flowers. 
§ ii. Laddirnum Dec. 
Derivation. A name applied by Pliny to some species of Cftisus. 
Sect. Char. Calyx campanulate. Pod many-seeded, not dilated at the upper su- 
ture. Flowers yellow. Branches leafy and unarmed. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 153.) 
¥ 2. C. Lasu’rnum L. The common Laburnum. 
ZAR C¥tsus Labirnum. 
