Spartium

A figure is given by De Candolle [15] of a stem of _Spartium junceum_ having several branches only imperfectly fasciated.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The best batches of eggs which I have found have been laid upon twigs of the _Spartium junceum_, which are like straws stuffed with pith, and especially on the upper twigs of the _Asphodelus cerasiferus_, which rises nearly a yard from the ground before ramifying.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Some travellers divide it into two species, _Spartium monospermum_ and _S. nubigenum_.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

These are bees, which appear to have been attracted by the flowers of the Spartium nubigenum, and which oblique currents of air had carried up to these high regions, like the butterflies found by M. Ramond at the top of Mont Perdu.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

From the region of the Spartium nubigenum we passed through narrow defiles, and small ravines hollowed at a very remote time by the torrents, first arriving at a more elevated plain (el Monton de Trigo), then at the place where we intended to pass the night.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

In the midst of this plain are tufts of the retama, which is the Spartium nubigenum of Aiton.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

We have already spoken of those flowery tufts of alpine broom (Spartium nubigenum), which form oases amidst a vast desert of ashes.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Spartium nubigenum, and which oblique currents of air had carried up to these high regions, like the butterflies found by M. Ramond at the top of M.nt Perdu.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

In the midst of this plain are tufts of the retama, which is the Spartium nubigenum of Aiton.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Portillo: traversing this narrow pass between two basaltic hills, we entered the great plain of Spartium.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814