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CYTISUS* multifdrus. 
Many-flowered Cytisus. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lucuminosm. § Lotee. 
CYTISUS.— Supra, vol. 2. fol. 121. 
C. multifiorus ; caulibus erectis, ramis elongatis teretibus : junioribus villosis, 
foliolis oblongis basi attenuatis subtis villosis utrinque concoloribus, 
floribus subternatis, pedicellis petiolis subzequalibus, vexillo emarginato 
undulato. 
C. elongatus ; @. multiflorus. Dec. prodr. 2. 155. 
Differt C. elongato, foliis subtis villosis, concoloribus, nec appresse pilosis, 
argento micantibus ; pedunculis petiolis longioribus v. equalibus, nec multd 
brevioribus ; vexillo emarginato, undulato, quodammodo lacero, nec obcordato, 
plano, integerrimo ; denique, floribus majoribus, ternis quaternisve, nec subso- 
litartis, rard ternis. - 
We quite agree in the opinion expressed by Dr. Besser 
in Decandolle’s Prodromus, that the C. elongatus of many 
Gardens is a species distinct from that of Waldstein and 
Kitaibel. Of the latter we have wild specimens from the 
neighbourhood of Pest, which entirely agree with the 
garden plant figured by Watson in his Dendrologia Bri- 
tannica, from Messrs. Whitley’s Nursery; this, therefore, 
is to be considered the true C. elongatus. That which is 
now represented is better known in the Gardens of the 
continent than in this country. The plant from which our 
drawing was made, in May 1827, was growing in the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had been 
raised from seeds received from Professor Jacquin. 
It is a very beautiful hardy border-shrub, remarkable 
* Pliny says, that Cytisus was so called because it was a native of 
Cythnos, one of the Cyclades. His Cytisus was the Medicago arborea. 
