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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



355. C. purpiireus. 



Very ornamental, and well deserving a place among other species of the 

 genus. It forms a handsome object grafted standard high. 



B. Flowers purple. 



-* 14. C. PURPU'REUS Scop. The purple-flowered Cytisus. 



Identification. Scop. Cam., No. 905. t. 43. ; Dec. Prod.. 2. p. 155. ; Don's Mill, 2. p. 156. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Aust. Append., t. 48.; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 892. ; Bot. Mag., t. 1176. ; and our 

 figs. 354, 355. 



Spec. Char., $c. Stems procumbent, twiggy. Leaves, calyxes, and legumes 

 glabrous. Leaflets oblong. Flowers axillary, solitary, on short pedicels. 

 (Don's Jlfill.) A procumbent shrub. Native of Carniola in exposed places. 

 Height 1 ft. Introduced in 1792. Flowers purple; 

 May to August. Legume black ; ripe in October. 



Varieties. 



-* C. p. 2 flore albo Hort. has the flowers of a pure 



white. 



-* C. p. 3JTbre roseo. Flowers rose- coloured. Plants 

 in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Of all the different species of Cf- 

 tisus, when grafted on the laburnum 

 standard high, this forms the most 

 graceful tree ; and a plant of it covered 

 with its purple flowers, placed on a 

 lawn, or in a border near a standard of 

 Genista triquetra, covered with its 

 golden yellow flowers, will produce a 

 very striking effect. The singular hybrid 

 or sport formed between this plant and the laburnum has 

 been already described, p. 216. 



C. Floivers yellow. 



* 15. C. ELONGA'TUS Waldst. et Kit. The 

 elongated Cytisus. 



Identification. Waldst. et Kit. Hung., 2. p. 200. t. 183. ; Dec. 



Prod., 2. p. 155. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 155. 

 Engravings. Waldst. et Kit. Hung., t. 183. ; and our fig. 356. 



Spec. Char., tyc. Stems erect. Branches elon- 

 gated and round ; young ones hairy. Leaflets 

 obovate, clothed beneath with closely pressed 

 hairs. Flowers lateral, usually in fours, on short 

 pedicels. Calyxes hairy. (Dec. Prod.) An erect 

 pubescent shrub. Native of Hungary, in woods. 

 Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1804. Flowers 

 yellow ; May and June. Legume dark brown, 

 or black ; ripe in September. 



In H. S. Garden, and at Messrs. Loddiges's. 



j 16. C. MULTIFLO V RUS Lindl. The many- 

 flowered Cytisus. 



Identification. Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1191. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 156. 

 Synonymes. C. elongatus Hortul., but not of Kit. ; C. elongatus 



,3 multiflbrus Dec. Prod. 2. p. 155. 

 Engravings. Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1 191 . ; and our fig. 357. 



Spec. C/tar., $c. Stems erect. Branches elon- 

 gated, terete, younger ones villous. Leaflets 

 oblong, tapering to the base, villous beneath, 

 and of the same colour on both surfaces. 



354. C. purpiireus 



356. Cytisus elongJUfli. 



Flowers usually ternary. Pedicels about equal in length to the petioles 



