CYTISUS. 
in early summer, and well adapted for any light soil and any sunny 
place. 
C. acutangulus, a neat mound of 6 inches high, and silvery, very 
branching. White flowers before the tiny oval leaves. (Dalmatia.) 
C. Ardoini, a quite low-growing treasure with flowers of brilliant 
golden yellow. Most fine and rare, from the downs above the Medi- 
terranean, where the greedy goats prevent its seeding. 
C. Beanii, a neat golden-flowering small bush ; with C. Ardoini the 
parent of C. kewensis. 
C. diffusus is also Genisia humifusa. A perfectly prostrate Dyer’s 
Woad from Kynance Cove, and notably lovely, with its flat spread of 
branches set with pairs of little oval-pointed, dark-green eyelashed 
leaves, on which the golden spikes have an extra fine effect. 
C. glabrescens, a charming Italian bushling, with pendulous 
branches hidden in golden bloom. 
C. hirsutus, L—This plant, very rarely met with, makes a widely 
spreading mass covered in a profuse eruption of gold. 
C. x kewensis, a garden hybrid of the greatest beauty, with prostrate 
long branches and hanging loose cluster-spikes of cream-white flower. 
C. Kitaebelii=C. procumbens and C. decumbens.—It is found above 
Ragusa, and is almost exactly the same as C. diffusus, but that here the 
leaves are hairy all over and not only at the edge. 
C. leucanthus, a neat bushling with clustered white flowers (C. 
schipkaensis). 
C. pulchellus is a densely branchy stiff decumbent species, almost 
thorny, and with hanging yellow flowers, from the Adriatic Islands, 
rather suggesting a yet more compact Genista aspalathoeides. 
C. purpureus ; very beautiful for high places, with its arching boughs 
of lilac, or white, or magenta-rose (in the form flattered by the name of 
incarnatus), and passing from cream to lilac in the specially free- 
flowering one called C. versicolor. 
C. pygmaeus is found in shady stony places of Macedonia and the 
Levant. It is only some 4 or 6 inches high, the whole plant shimmer- 
ing in a coat of golden silk with quite minute leaves and yellow blossoms 
gathered into heads at the end of the shoots. 
C. sericeus is a silky low mat in the stony places of Vellebit, with 
yellow flowers. 
C. smyrnaeus stands erect to the height of 6 inches, a grey mass of 
small ovate foliage, with the bloom in clusters at the ends of the shoots. 
There is a prostrate variety from Sipylus in Lydia, from the rocks 
where Niobe stands frozen into stone with sorrow against the face 
of the cliff. 
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