There are many kinds of Cytisus, natives of Europe, Asia, and Africa,
named for Cythrus, one of the Cyclades, where the first species was
found.
[Sidenote: =Scotch Broom=
_Cýtisus scopàrius_
=Yellow
Spring, summer
West, etc., except Ariz.=]
A handsome branching shrub, about five feet high, with almost smooth or
quite hairy leaves, with three, toothless leaflets, and fine clusters
of flowers, each an inch or more long, with a yellow two-lipped calyx
and a golden-yellow corolla, deeper in color at the base of the
standard and at the tips of the wings; the stamens ten, in one set; the
style curved in. The pod is flat, smooth on the sides, but hairy along
the edges, one or two inches long and curling when ripe. This is said
to have been brought to California by Cornish miners.