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n. - One species: Spanish broom.

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  • In the midst of this plain are tufts of the retama, which is the Spartium nubigenum of Aiton.
  • Portillo: traversing this narrow pass between two basaltic hills, we entered the great plain of Spartium.
  • 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.
  • The upper third is chiefly open, but to the South is covered with a dense thicket of Scotch broom (Spartium scoparium Lin.) which being favorably spread before the sun...
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