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« SPÁRTIUM júnceum; var. odoratissimum.
Fragrant Broom.
Linnean Class and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
Natural Order. LEGUMINOSÆ. Earn. 1. P a p il io n a c e æ . Decand.
prodr. 2. p. 94.
SP A R T IU M . Calyx raembranaceus spatbaceus supernè fissus apice 5-dentatus
subbilabiatus. Cor. vexillum subrotundum eompllcatum, carina acuminata
et petalis parùm adglutinatis bipartiblbs. Stamina monadelpba. Legumen
plano-compressum, polyspermum, eglandulosum.
Frutex glaber, ramis virgatis teretibus, foliis paucis lanceolatis, floribus in
racemos terminales dispositis distantibus flams. Decand. prodr. 2.
p. 145.
S. junceum. Linn. sp. pl. p. 995. hort. cliff.p. 356. hort. ups. p. 208. Roy.
lugdb. p. 370. Sauv. monsp. p. 60. Oron. orient, p. 211. Mill. diet,
n. I. Kniph. cent. 1.«. 83. Willd. arb.p. 368. Jacq.. coll. 3 .p. 81.
G. Don gen. syst. gard. ^ bot. 2.- p. 148.
Lam.
Genista juncea. Scop. earn. n. 870, Daham. arb. 1. p. 257. t. 103.
diet. 2. p. 617.
G. odorata. Manch meth.
Spartiantbus junceus. Link en. 2. p. 223.
Spartium arborescens seminibus lenti simillbus. Bauh. pin. p. 396.
S. Dioscorides Genista Pllnii. Clus. hist. p. \02.
S. Dioscorideum, Narbonense et Hispanlcum. Lob. ic. 2. p. 99.
S. macroloblum. Renealm. spec. p. 34. t. 33.
Genista juncea. Bauh. hist. \ .p . 395. Tournef.inst. l .p . 643.
ß. odoratissimum, diffusum, gracilius ; ramulis foliisque sericeis, floribus ralno-
ribus odoratissimis.
A spreading, branching shrub, of 3 or 4 feet high, with
long, filiform, rush-like, green branches; the younger ones
silky. Leaves sparingly scattered, stalked, lanceolate, acute,
even, an inch long, silky beneath. Racemes terminal,
solitary, short, many-flowered. Flowers of a pure yellow,
very fragrant, and rather smaller than those of var. a.
Calyx tubular, spathaceous, striated, glabrous, wnh an
oblitjuc scariose limb, furnished beneath with five short.