GENISTA. 
from the ball, but appearing all over its surface, produced not only 
from the tips of the shoots but also from the axils of the upper leaves, 
in clusters of two or three. For this, as yet, we still vainly crave. 
G. olympicum, from the Mediterranean region to the Bithynian 
Olympus, is one of the most delightful. For it makes a neat, quite small 
turf of soft brilliant green, in fine delicate shoots not an inch high, 
and as thick as fur, covered over in summer with loose heads of 
really charming waxy-white flowers—the plant being in the same tufty 
nature as G. baldense, G. helveticum, G. majeliense, &c., but far superior 
in the beauty of its blossoms, that fully equal in charm the tidy pleasant- 
ness of its emerald cushionlet. There is an even tighter form with 
larger white stars—G. aretiocides, from Tolos, Cadmus, &c. 
G. Pestalozzae is nothing better than a Woodruff; but not more 
than 6 inches high, in a concise clump, from the sub-alpine regions 
of Lebanon. 
C.. pruinosum has stems of nearly 2 inches at the most, and is all 
bluish grey with natural rime, while the flowers are gathered into 
bundles of three or six. (Moist rocks of Granada up to about 5000 
feet.) 
G. purpureum is a fine fuzzy upstanding bush of some 10 inches, 
set with loose showers of dull minute flowers that are not purple but 
of a brownish red. It is a distinct elegant inconspicuous plant, and _ 
may be seen in the limestone cliffs, for instance, along the lake-side 
road from Varenna towards Colico.. Very similar in deceptiveness is 
G. rubrum, which is dismal in colour as the dregs of wine. 
G. pyrenaicum not only makes a tight tufted cushion, but a fairy 
cushion of gleaming silver with stems of an inch or two and dense 
overlapping leaflets in whorls of six, tight-pressed together; while 
the white flowers are borne by themselves from the upper axils of 
the shoots. (High crevices up to 10,000 feet on the Pyrenees.) 
G. tolosanum is a little taller, for its stiff stems attain a height of 
2 or 3 inches, standing erect in a crowd, finely delicate, and set with 
minute fleshy roundish leaflets in whorls, the whole forming:a solid 
mass starred with white flowers, on the shady porphyry rocks oi 
Amanus on the passes of Tolos. 
Genista.—Of Genistas there seem no end. But, without dealing 
even with such charming medium-sized bushes as spidery G. radiata 
of the Southern Alps, cur feet must surely be held back a moment 
from the field of Gentiana to notice such smaller Brooms as may 
benefit the rock-garden. Of these the best of all, G. humifusa, has 
already been treated under Cytisus ; but there still remain, of minute 
bushes, or creepers, some special little species for hot open slopes. 
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