n bent in the form
represented in a magnified view of the flower on the plate, _fig._
4. this curious phoenomenon has not been noticed by CAVANILLE.

STAMEN: _Filament_ one, tapering and very slender just below the
Anthera, arising from the same part as (and placed opposite to the
base of) the Nectary the lower part of it broader, somewhat fleshy,
cartilaginous, and of the same nature as the inferior part of the
Nectary, with a groove as that has on the inside, so that before
the flower expands, the bases of each are like two half tubes, the
sides of which, nearly touching each other, wholly enclose the
Pistillum; as the fructification goes forward, the Filament,
endowed also with an elastic power, bends back soon after the
flower is open, betwixt the two uppermost Petals, and becomes
invisible to an inattentive observer; the Anthera, which is large,
is at first yellow, and afterwards dark brown, _fig._ 5.

PISTILLUM: _Germen_ below the Calyx, round, smooth, and green;
_Style_ filiform, white, length of the Filament; Stigma forming a
small villous head, _fig._ 6. in some of the flowers the Pistillum
appears imperfect, being much shorter than usual, and wanting the
Stigma, perhaps such have not acquired their full growth, _fig._ 6.

PERICARPIUM (from CAVANILLE) a round _Capsule_, of four cells, and
four valves, the cells many-seeded.

SEEDS very minute, ovate, affixed to a four-cornered receptacle.

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CYTISUS SESSILIFOLIUS. SESSILE-LEAV'D, OR COMMON CYTISUS.

_Class and Order._

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 2-labiatus: 2/3 _Legumen_ basi attenuatum.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

CYTISUS _sessilifolius_ racemis erectis, calycibus bractaea
triplici, foliis floralibus sessilibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed.
14._ _Murr. p. 666._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 50._

CYTISUS glabris foliis subrotundis, pediculis brevissimis. _Bauh.
Pin. p. 390._

CYTISUS vulgatior, the common Tree Trefoile. _Park. Parad. p. 440._

The term _sessilifolius_ has been given to this species of Cytisus,
because the leaves are for the most part sessile, that is sit close to
the branches, without any or very short footstalks; such they are at
least on the flowering branches when the shrub is in blossom, but at the
close of the summer they are no lo