The sea-shore is a tangle of lilac and oleander and laurustinus and myrtle and lentisk and cytisus and geranium.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
The grim-eyed lioness pursues the wolf, The wolf the she-goat, the she-goat herself In wanton sport the flowering cytisus, And Corydon Alexis, each led on By their own longing.
"The Bucolics and Eclogues"
Virgil
cytisus Is good to browse on, the tall forest yields Pine-torches, and the nightly fires are fed And shoot forth radiance.
"The Georgics"
Virgil