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SPAR'TIUM* * 
Linnean Class and order. DiADE'LPiiiAf, Dkca'ndiua; 
Natural. Order. Legumino'sa2, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 345. — Sm, 
Gr. of Bot. p. 174. — Lindl. Syn. p. 75 ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. p. 
87. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 532. — Sm. Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 259. — 
Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 509. — Papiliona'cE/E, of Linnaeus. 
Gem. Char. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, cup-shaped, of 1 sepal, 
2-lipped ; lips coloured, blunt ; upper lip with 2, lower lip with 
3, very slight teeth. Corolla, of 5 petals ; standard (vexillum) 
broadly egg-shaped, entirely reflexed, very large ; wings (alae) 
egg-shaped, oblong, shorter than the standard, connected below 
with the filaments ; keel (carina) of 2 petals, spear-shaped, oblong, 
blunt, longer than the wings, attached to the filaments, and con- 
nected together at the lower edges by entangled hairs. Filaments 
(fig. 2) 10, all united into one tube, which is sometimes slit along 
the upper side, unequal, thread-shaped, the lowermost gradually 
longest. Anthers oblong, versatile (vane-like). Gennen (fig. 3.) 
oblong, compressed, hairy. Style (fig. 3.) awl-shaped, curved, or 
contorted, upwards. Stigma oblong, hairy, running along the 
upper edge of the blunt style. Legume (fig. 4.) much compressed, 
oblong, blunt, of 1 cell, and 2 elastic valves, subtended by the 
permanent calyx, and tipped with the twisted style, which is at 
length deciduous. Seeds (figs. 5 & 6.) several, roundish-kidney- 
shaped, crested. 
The filaments being all connected at the base, and all forming 
a simple tube; the strap-shaped, hairy, lateral stigma ; and the 
flat legume ; will distinguish this from other genera in the same 
class and order. 
One species British. 
SPAR'TIUM SCOPA'RIUM. Common Broom. 
Spec. Char. Leaves ternate, or solitary. Branches angular 
without thorns. Legume fringed. 
Eng. Hot. t. 1339. — Curt. FI. Lond. t. — Linn. Sp. PI. p.996. — Huds. FI. 
Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 310. — YVoodv. Med. Hot. v. ii. p. 243. t. 89.— Sm. FI. Brit, 
v. ii. p.753. — Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 261.— YVith. (7ih ed.) v. iii. p.827. — Lightf. Ft. 
Scot. v. i. p.382. — Sib. FI. Oxon. p. 218. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 153. — Purt. 
Midi. FI. v. i. p.328. — Belli. FI. Cant. (3rd ed.) p. 287. — Johnston’s FI. of Berw. 
v. i. p. 157. — Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 204. — Mack. Cat. of PI. of Ireland, p. 65. — 
Genista, Johnson’s Ger. p. 1311. — Genista angulosa trifolia. Hay’s Syn. p. 
474. — Genista Scojiaria, Lamarck’s Flore Fraufoise, v. iv. p. 497.— Hook. FI. 
Scot, p.211.— Grev. FI. Edin. p. 154. — FI. Devon, pp. 119 & 173. — Genista 
vulgaris, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v.ii. p.595. — Cytisus scopdrius, Link. — Lindl. Syn. 
p. 77.— Hook. Brit. FI. p. 319. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. — Fig. 2. Calyx, Stamens, and Style. — Fig. 3. Germen and 
Style. — F’ig. 4. Legume. — Figs. 5 & 6. Seed. — Fig. 6. A little magnified. 
* From spao, Gr. to draw, because ropes, by which things are drawn, are 
for med of it. Dr. Thornton. 
f From dis, Gr. twice, and adelphos, Gr. a brother. (Two brotherhoods.) 
The 17th class in the Linnean Artificial System. It comprehends those plants 
which bear perfect flowers, the stamens of which are united by the lower part of 
their filaments into 2 sets. In a few instances both sets are combined at the 
base, which is the case in the genus Spdrtium ; but in general, in the order 
Decandria of this class, there are nine united filaments, and one odd one. 
