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western and southern points. They are summer 
flowering herbs. 
BaptisiahdiS fourteen species, with yellow, blue 
or white flowers. All are North American. A large 
number of species of Brachysema, Oxylobium, 
Chorizema, Gompholobium, Daviesia, Gastrolo- 
bium, Pultenaea, Dillwynia, etc., belong to the 
same tribe, many of which will no doubt succeed 
well in Southern California. 
Ltipimis has ninety-five species from North 
America, the regions of the Mediterranean and 
tropical Africa. The various sections of the genus 
yield many handsome perennial and annual species. 
Our botanies enumerate more than seventy forms, 
including L. arboreus from California and L. peren- 
nis from South Jersey. 
Laburninn has three species and a number of 
varieties natives of the south of Europe and Asia- 
Minor. They are hardy enough to grow up from 
seed in garden ground in Britain, where they form 
beautiful trees of from fifteen to thirty-five feet 
high. In this country it seems strange that they 
appear to do best northwards, the finest I have seen 
being at Canandaigua, N. Y. South of New York 
City they are stunted in appearance, but still well 
worth growing. Most likely hygrometrical condi- 
tions determine their well being. 
Genista is a larger genus of seventy species, Eu- 
ropean, North African and from Western Asia. 
Three species are credited to Britain, two of them 
quite frequent, but G. pilosa is less common, being 
confined to Suffolk and parts of the west coast. G. 
tinctoria is the “green weed” naturalized in various 
parts of New England, New York, etc. G. Anglica 
appears to be the name fully settled upon the 
“petty whin.’’ There is great confusion in the 
names of this and the following genera in catalogues. 
Ulex, “furze,” has tenor twelve described forms. 
About four or five are in cultivation, U. Europaeus 
and its handsome double form being most common. 
I have sometimes been told that the furze has be- 
comenaturalizedinSouth Virginia, butno mention of 
it occurs in theBotanies. It is tender at Washington. 
Cytisus, “broom,” has forty species, mostly from 
the countries bordering the Mediterranean and in 
the Canary Islands. C. Scoparius is the “Scotch 
broom” naturalized from Virginia southwards and 
hardy in New Jersey under the shelter of trees or 
buildings. It is this plant and not the green weed 
that gave the name Planta-genet to the Norman 
race of English kings. Geoffrey d’Anjou, father of 
Henry II , wore it in his cap. It is to-day claimed 
as the badge of the Culloden Eorbes. As nearly as 
I can make it, out of all the confusion, Cytisus albus 
is now the settled name of the beautiful white “Por- 
tugal broom.” It also ought to be adapted to the 
country south of the Carolinas, as it stands all ordi- 
nary British winters. It has a pink variety. C. 
Andreanus is a form (a chance seedling) of the 
Scotch broom, but has been sold often for a Ge- 
nista. C. nigricans and others have lived over 
northern winters sometimes, and many would suc- 
ceed in California. These plants are practically 
evergreen (in color) and it seems strange that they 
are so seldom seen in small gardens. 
Ononis, “rest harrow,” is in sixty species, natives 
of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. They 
are often beautiful suffruticose or annual plants, with 
purple, pink, yellow or more rarely white flowers. 
It might be expected the British O. arvensis and O. 
spinosa would have naturalized southwards, but I 
have not seen them recorded. O. Aragonensis from 
the Pyrenees, O. arborea and O. rotundifolius from 
the south of Europe and O. natrix from further 
north are in European gardens, and I think Mc- 
Mahon mentioned some of them as hardy at Phila- 
delphia ninety years ago. 
Ti'igonclla, “fenugreek,” has sixty species in 
Europe, Asia and South Africa. 
Medicago is a genus of forty species from Europe, 
Asia and Africa. The “Lucerne,” M. sativa, is a 
valuable fodder plant, especially on dry, warm cal- 
careous soils. It has been in cultivation from time 
immemorial and is well known on the Pacific coast 
as “Alfalfa.” There is a variety or two, one with 
yellow and purple flowers. The six or seven Brit- 
ish perennials and annuals are sometimes admitted 
to gardens as much perhaps for their curious twisted 
pods as for their purple or yellow flowers. They 
enjoy a number of popular names, such as “snails,’’ 
“caterpillars,” “burs,” “sickles” and so on. Sev- 
eral are naturalized in the United States. M. ar- 
borea is an evergreen shrub from Southern Europe, 
growing to 8 or lO feet high. Evergreen shrubs, ex- 
cept for the far south, are uncommon in the alliance. 
Melilotns, with ten species, and Trifoliuin, with 
300, are the sweet and common clovers respectively. 
Both are distributed pver the four continents. A 
few are ornamental. 
Anthyllis, “kidney vetch,” has twenty species, 
natives of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. 
They are annual or perennial herbs or evergreen, 
low growing shrubs. Some of the latter may be of 
use for the gardens of the upper south. A. Barba- 
jovis grows to six or eight feet, with silvery leaves 
and yellow flowers. A. Hermanniae, also yellow 
flowered, is from the Island of Corsica and hardy 
in the south of England. A. cytissoides has white 
flowers and A. erinacea, purple. 
Trenton, N. J. James MacPherson. 
