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Flowers and curious Plants now in their Perfittion. oa 
ir BROAD-LEAVD PERRULOUS: FLOWER’D CYTISUs. 
March. 
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Fig. 1. 
HE Gardener knows this Shrub under 
the Name Laburnum,; and moft Authors 
have treated of it under that Title: 
but ’tis with Reafon Linn avs has refer’d it to - 
the Cytifus : it has all the Characters of that elegant 
To call it by a diftinét 
Genus; and no others. 
Generical Name would therefore be again{t | 
Rule; and would meroduce Confufion. into the | 
Science. 
_ While we deny the Ufe of this difting Name 
for obvious Reafons, ’tis proper we acquaint 
the Student that they had the Sanétion of :Anti- | 
quity, who employ’d it to diftinguith this Shrub. 
Maritozus indeed objeéts, this cannot be the 
Tree which Puiny and the Romans call’d Labur- 
num, becaufe that Author gives to his Laburnum 
Strings of Flowers a Cobic ae but this i is not 
conclufive. : + 
_ In England, where we raife the Shrab | in Gait : 
dens, there is not this Length: but CAMERARIUS 
has cited judicious Penfons, and of unqueftion’ d 
Veracity, to prove that where it is wild: in warm 
and favourable Climates, the Clufters of Flowers 
are longer than Piiny’s Meafure of them. - 
Thofe among the old Authors, whofe Doubts 
have prevented their adopting the Name Labur- 
num, join this with the Anagyris, diftinguifhing it pretty ; a long Seties’ of them hangs on a weak 
Numb. XXVII, 
from that, in its not ie when the Leaves March. 
are bruis’d; by the Addition of Non fetida: but ——— 
this is wrong: the Plant is as evidently diftin 
from Anagyris, as it is conneéted with the Cytifi. 
Linn vs found the Characters thofe of this 
Genus; and, refering it hither, he adds, as its 
Diftinction ‘from the reft, racemis f smplic cibus pen- 
dulis, foliilis ovato oblongis : -Cytifus, with oval 
oblong Leaves, and pnipls peagulous Clufters 
of Flowers. 
_ It rifes to the Height of a moderate Tree. 
The Trunk is covered with a brown Bark; the 
Wood is white and firm; and the young Shoots 
are flender ‘and of a pale green. 
The Branches are numerous ; fo that the Tree 
naturally forms itfelf into a handfome Head, and 
the Leaves cloath it with a great deal of Bea. 
Thefe are plac’d in the trifoliate Manner ; and 
the Footftalk is long, flender, weak, and cover’d 
with a light foft Down. Each of the three Leaves 
is oblong, broad, rounded at the End, and undi- 
-vided at the Edges. 
_ The.Colour on the upper:Side is a very beau- 
tiful frefh green, and on the under Part grey- 
ith. ‘ 
The Flowers are very numerous and very 
4h and 
