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calyx, and the hairy pods. C. Heuffeli is, perhaps, nearest to C. austriacus, the 

 hairs, as in that species, being appressed ; but it is distinguished by its slender 

 stems and narrower leaves. 



C. HIRSUTUS, Linnceus. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 6819.) 



A dwarf, more or less decumbent, deciduous shrub, I to 2 ft. high, with 

 round slender stems covered when young with outstanding (not appressed) 

 hairs. Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets oval, or broadly obovate, up to f in. long, 

 half as much wide, under-surface shaggy. Flowers yellow, I in. or more long, 

 produced in axillary clusters of two to four blossoms ; standard petal stained 

 with brown in the centre, roundish, and as much as f in. across ; calyx tubular, 

 very hairy, \ in. long. Pod I to \\ ins. long, flattened, shaggy. 



Native of S. Europe ; introduced nearly two hundred years ago, but not 

 often seen. It has been much confused with supinus and ratisbonensis ; the 

 former is, of course, quite distinct in its terminal inflorescence ; the latter, 

 which is the more closely allied, is of taller, sturdier habit, and has the hairs on 

 the various parts appressed. 



Var. HIRSUTISSIMUS, Boissier, is sometimes seen in gardens. It is a 

 sturdier, more erect form found further east than the type, occurring in Asia 

 Minor ; the leaves, calyx, and pods are even more hirsute. Up to 3 or 4 ft. high. 



C. CILIATUS, Wahlenberg, is a native of the south-eastern part of the 

 Austrian Empire and Turkey. It is sometimes made a variety of hirsutus, 

 from which it differs chiefly in the pods being hairy only on the seams, or even 

 almost smooth. Habit and flower as in ordinary C. hirsutus. 



C. KE WEN SIS, Bean. 



A low, deciduous, perfectly procumbent shrub, less than i ft. high, but 

 sometimes 6 ft. across. Leaves sometimes simple, but usually trifoliolate, 

 downy. Flowers produced in May singly, or two or three together, at each 

 joint of the previous year's wood ; they are each about \ in. long, creamy white 

 or pale sulphur-yellow, with a fine standard petal \ in. across. 



A hybrid between C. Ardoini (seed-bearer) and C. albus, raised at Kew in 

 1891. For growing on shelves of the rock garden few dwarf shrubs are more 

 beautiful. The flowers are rather larger than those of C. prascox, but otherwise 

 very similar. 



C. LEUCANTHUS, Waldstein. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 1438 ; C. albus, Hacquet, not Link ; C. schipkaensis, Dieck?) 



A dwarf shrub of spreading habit, 4 to 10 ins. high, deciduous, with round, 

 hairy branchlets. Leaves trifoliolate, with a hairy main-stalk J to \ in. long ; 

 leaflets ' about \ in. long, obovate or narrow elliptic, almost smooth above, 

 clothed beneath with appressed hairs. Flowers closely packed in a terminal 

 cluster, yellowish white, six to ten in each cluster. The flower is f in. long, 

 but the petals do not expand fully through being clasped by the large hairy 

 calyx \ in. long. Pod f in. long, compressed, shaggy, containing two to five 

 seeds. 



Native of S.E. Europe. This species was originally introduced to England 

 about 1806, but was afterwards completely lost sight of in gardens ; about 

 1890 it was again introduced from the Balkan Mountains, and having been 

 found on the Shipka Pass, it was distributed from nurseries under the name of 

 C. schipkaensis, without its identity with the old leucanthus being noticed. 

 It flowers best in June and July, but continues until October to produce odd 



