CY'TISUS RACEMO'SUS. 
RACEME-FLOWERED CYTISUS. 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
S. Europe. 
3 feet. 
April, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1835. 
No. 68-2. 
Cytisus,a name adopted from the isle of Cynthus, 
one of the Cyclades, see No. 149. 
This elegant free-flowering shrub must be es- 
teemed an acquisition to any garden or shrubbery ; 
but having been sent into collections as completely 
hardy, we must caution our readers from relying 
too implicitly on this character. 
In a sheltered situation, where the soil is light, 
and above all, having a dry subsoil, it will gener- 
ally bear the rigour of our variable climate; but in 
damp exposed ground, it will be destroyed, unless 
temporary protection be aflbrded it in frosty wea- 
ther. It is an abundant flowerer, and continues in 
gaiety two months at the least, its blaze of yellow 
reminding us of that most poetical verse in the first 
book of Maccabees,* where the author describes 
the army of King Antiochus. 
“ The sun shone upon the shields of gold and bi-ass, 
the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like 
lamps of fire.” 
This shrub may be grown in pots of sandy loam 
and peat; and propagated from cuttings, which will 
strike in sand, under glass. 
* c. 6, V. 39. Card. Mag. 13, 361. 
