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‖ cytisus Bot.|ˈsɪtɪsəs|
[L., a. Gr. κύτισος a shrubby leguminous plant.]
a. A shrubby plant mentioned by the Greek and Roman writers, as useful for fodder; now identified with the Shrubby Medic, Medicago arborea.
b. Bot. Adopted by Linnæus as the name of a genus of leguminous shrubs and trees, including the common Broom (though this has by many been made the type of a separate genus), the Laburnum, and other species, one of which (C. racemosus), a well-known early flowering greenhouse and window plant with a profusion of yellow flowers, is the Cytisus of florists.
By early writers the name was often applied to other shrubby leguminous plants.
1548Turner Names of Herbes, Cytisus groweth plentuously in mount Appennine..I haue not sene it in Englande. Cytisus may be called in englishe tre trifoly. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. lxi, Cytisus is a shrubbe or bush with leaues, not muche vnlyke Fenugreke, or Sene; the flowers be faire and yellow, almost like to Broome flowers. a1729Congreve Ovid's Art of Love (T.), There tamarisks with thick-leav'd box are found, And cytisus and garden⁓pines abound. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxv. 362 Evergreen Cytisus has the flowers coming out singly from the side of the stalk. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 8 No [more] my goats..the blooming cytisus..shall you browse. 1892Star 14 May 1/7 Marguerites..wave gaily above rows of drooping cytisus and hanging grass. |