dark green, quite entire. Flowers axillary, solitary, erect, 

 on a short pedicel. Calyx tinged with purple. Corolla large, 

 fine piu'ple. Filaments all connate. Anthers orange-coloured. 

 Legume much narrower at the base, subpeduncled, linear, 

 compressed, sickle-shaped, black when ripe, and commonly 

 smooth. 



Few shrubs which ornament the lawn or pleasure-ground 

 are more interesting when in flower than this species of Cyti- 

 sus. Whether it be cultivated as a dwarf shrub in its natural 

 style of growth- in trailing on the ground, or as a standard in 

 being worked upon a stem of the common Laburnum, it in- 

 variably attracts attention. When it is placed alone on the 

 lawn as a standard, its branches having a natural disposition 

 towards the earth, they hang in a pendent manner round 

 the main stem, upon which they are worked by the process of 

 budding ; and when in flower present a very lively appear- 

 ance. Other species of this genus may be treated in the same 

 manner. The C. supinus when thus worked assumes the same 

 habit of growth, while the C. argenteus and C. capitaUis present 

 their shoots upwards ; but either, as dwarfs or standards, are 

 very ornamental. The C. purjnireus, when cultivated as a 

 dwarf shrub, has a good effect grouped with many of the 

 species of Daphne; also in the front of the American beds in- 

 termixed with the Ledum tribe and other dwarf shrubs. When 

 cultivated in this manner it does not attain above a foot in 

 height, as its habit is to trail upon the surface of the ground. 

 It is readily increased by layers, and thrives well in a light 

 vegetable earth. The flowers are purple, and appear in great 

 profusion in the month of May. 



It is a native of Austria, and was introduced in 1 790. 



