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gardens plants exist, which have withstood 

 many winters. The flowers are white 

 with a small citron-yellow blotch at the 

 base of each petal. It requires no protec- 

 tion, and may be raised from seeds, which 

 ripen in abundance, and also by cuttings, 

 which, however, do not strike so freely as 

 in some of the other kinds. S.W. Europe. 



C. LUSITANICUS. A pretty kind of 

 garden origin, which makes a shapely 

 bush of spreading habit and slender wiry 

 stems, covered during summer with large 

 white flowers marked with a deep crimson 

 spot at the base of each petal. Narrow, 

 bright green foliage, which is slightly 

 viscous. 



C. MONSPELIENSIS (Montpelier Rock 

 Rose). Widely distributed in the Medi- 

 terranean region, and very variable in 



habit, with Sage-like leaves, and long- 

 stalked, white, yellow-blotched flowers. 

 In a wild state it is found all along the 

 Mediterranean, and a number of slightly 

 varying forms have received distinctive 

 names, but do not appear to have been 

 introduced to gardens. 



C. VAGINATUS is the largest of the red- 

 flowered kinds ; robust, with large- 

 stalked, hairy leaves, and large, deep, 

 rose-coloured yellow-centred flowers. The 

 stamens are more numerous in this than 

 in, perhaps, any other Cistus, and form a 

 dense, brush-like tuft, overtopped by the 

 long style. 



C. VILLOSUS. A Mediterranean kind, a 

 variable and erect bush with firm-textured 

 leaves. The flowers of all the forms are 

 rose-coloured, with long styles. C. undu- 



Cistus fonnosus. 



size of its leaves and also in stature of 

 plant ; in some spots it hardly grows more 

 than 6 inches in height ; in others to 

 6 feet. The flowers are white, about an 

 inch in diameter, each petal bearing a 

 yellow blotch at the base. 



C. POPULIFOLIUS (Poplar-leaved Rock 

 Rose) is a robust kind, with large rugose, 

 stalked, Poplar-like leaves and medium- 

 sized white flowers, tinged with yellow at 

 the base of the petals. Varieties of C. 

 salvifolius are often misnamed C. populi- 

 folius in nurseries and gardens. Amongst 

 the numerous forms of this species may 

 be mentioned C. narbonnensis , with shorter 

 flower-stalks, smaller leaves altogether 

 a smaller plant than the type and C. lati- 

 folius, another with broader leaves. S. 

 Europe. 



C. SALVIFOLIUS (Sage-leaved Rock 

 Rose). A variable kind, and of slender 



latus is a variety with wavy-margined 

 leaves. C. incanus represents what may 

 be regarded as the common typical form. 

 C. creticus is another with deeper rose-red 

 flowers than those already mentioned. 



CLADIUM. C. Mariscus is a vigor- 

 pus native fen plant, 2 to 6 feet high, 

 in flower crowned with dense, close 

 chestnut-coloured panicles, sometimes 

 3 feet in length, the leaves glaucous 

 rigid, and often 4 feet long. It is a 

 water plant for association with the 

 taller sedges, Bulrush, and bolder 

 water-side plants. 



CLADRASTIS, the Yellow-wood of 

 N. America. C. tinctoria is a pretty 

 lawn tree of medium size and sym- 

 metrical growth, but not a good flower- 

 ing tree. Its leaves, in autumn, turn 



