CYTISUS. 
will soon, if let alone, spread into an ample clump; more than that, 
it exceeds the rest of the race in generosity by actually discovering 
a friendly insect and setting seed on its own account; and follows 
late, too, in the procession of Cypripedes, coming into blossom with 
C. hirsutum in the early weeks of June. 
C. tubeticum cannot have the same praise, although it is found 
in the same reckless profusion in the same situations, in the rough 
grassy slopes, among countless other plants on the high open ridges 
of Tibet. It is a small squat thing, rather like a malignant Tibetan 
toad in appearance (no less than in character) when it produces 
its single stumpy stolid flower of immense size, on a stem of some 
3or4inches. For this is an evil-looking, hoody sullenness, with broad 
straight segments and bulging lip, the whole being of a whitish 
tone, but densely striped all over with lines of purple-black, while 
the bag is almost entirely of the same lurid tone. In cultivation, 
however, it avoids this condemnation by very rarely growing well 
enough to show those flowers at all. It has by no means answered 
the high expectations which its first appearance and the description 
of its habitat provoked—a mimpish misery, lingering on from year to 
year, and always sending up one barren shoot of foliage, but never 
mustering strength for anything more. It is quite likely, however, 
that it misses company ; and that if, instead of setting it all by itself 
in special soil, as a precious treasure, we laid its roots in shallow light 
stuff, where they should have to battle their way about among other 
roots of fine Gentians and Dianthus and Arenaria and small Geranium, 
the plant would then begin to feel at home, and be stimulated into 
making an effort to thrive. 
C. ventricosum comes from Mid-Russia and the Ural. It hasnothing 
to do with the Japanese species sent out under this name, but should 
differ from C. macranthon chiefly, if not solely, in having petals longer 
than the lip instead of shorter, the lip itself being of the same shape 
and size, while those petals themselves are yellow. However, this 
entire group is difficult and doubtful, with shadowy definitions in 
what is perhaps merely one large and diverse aggregate. 
C. Yatabeanum is a rare plant of Northern Japan, having affinities 
with C. guttatwum. From the running rhizomes rise stems of 8 inches or 
less, with one pair of ample oval-pointed leaves, and then one baggy- 
lipped flower of marbled pink and white, with the two outstanding 
petals curiously clubbed at the end into a swollen round knob. 
Cytisus.—The dwarfer Brooms have so much importance in 
the garden that they cannot be scanted of fair notice, shrubs though 
they be, sheeting the cliffs in flowers of white or pink or gold 
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