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CYTISUS Weldenii. 
Dalmatian Laburnum. 
DIA DELPHI A DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Leguminosas, § Papilionacea:. 
CYTISUS. L. 
C. Weldenii; fruticosus erectus, foliis ternatis petiolatis, foliolis ellipticis 
integris basi caneatis apice obtusis retusisve glabris, racemis termina- 
libus pedunculatis pyramidatis strictis, pedicellis cano-villosis, calycibus 
campanulatis trilobis : lobis tomentoso-ciliatis obtusis, corollis glabris, 
carina villoso-sericea, leguminibus glabris stylo mucronatis. Walpers 
Repertorium Botanices Systematica, vol. 1. p. 633. 
C. Weldenii. Host. Flora Austriaca, 2. 339. Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. no. 122. 
Loudon Avb. Brit. p. 218. t. 343. 
How different this species is from the Scotch Laburnum 
will be now apparent from the accompanying figure taken 
from a plant which flowered this spring in the garden of the 
Earl of Uchester, in Dorsetshire. It is obviously distinguished 
by its flowers growing in short erect racemes and not in long 
drooping ones. 
Although from its similarity in foliage to the Laburnum, 
it is liable to be confounded with that plant, yet it is in fact 
nearer Cytisus sessilifolius, of which it may be almost regarded 
as a gigantic form. To what size it will grow is unknown ; 
probably eight or ten feet high ; but on its Dalmatian moun- 
tains it is said to be a bush. 
The poisonous quality of the common Laburnum is still 
more concentrated in this species, as we are told by the Ger- 
man botanists. The General Baron Welden, after whom it 
is named, assures us that its very flowers produce headache, 
and that the goats which feed on it produce poisonous milk. 
[But how is it then that the goats themselves do not die ?] 
August, 1843. k 
