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CYTISUS 



clusters. It is not one of the prettiest of dwarf brooms, but flowers later than 

 most of them. It may be used as a carpeting beneath thinly planted, taller 

 shrubs, or in small patches in the rock garden. It belongs to the supinus 

 group. 



C. MONSPESSULANUS, Linnceus. 

 MONTPELIER BROOM. 



(C. candicans, De Candolle ; Genista 

 candicans, Linnceus.') 



A shrub 6 ft. or more high, with 

 erect, very leafy branches ; evergreen 

 in mild winters. Branchlets con- 

 spicuously ridged, hairy when young. 

 Leaves trifoliolate, short - stalked ; 

 leaflets obovate with a short, abrupt 

 tip, ^ to f in. long, smooth above, 

 hairy beneath. Flowers produced in 

 early May in short racemes or short- 

 stalked umbels, three to nine in each 

 umbel, from the axils of the leaves ; 

 ^ in. long, bright yellow. Calyx ^- 

 to J in. long, bell-shaped, with unequal 

 triangular teeth. Pod ^ to f in. long, 

 shaggy, three- to four-seeded. 



Native of S. Europe from France 

 and Portugal to Dalmatia and Greece, 

 also in N. Africa and Syria ; intro- 

 duced in 1735, but never common on 

 account of its tenderness. Although 

 at Kew it survives winters of moderate 

 severity it succumbs to 15 or 20 of 

 frost, and is therefore really adapted 

 for the mildest parts of our islands only. 

 It has been introduced from N. India, 

 being apparently naturalised in some 

 parts there. 



C. NIGRICANS, Linnceus. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8479 ; C. longispicatus, Hort.*) 



A deciduous shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, 

 with erect, round branches covered 

 with appressed down. Leaves trifoli- 

 olate, with main-stalks J to f in. long ; 

 leaflets i to i in. long, obovate or oval, 

 with scattered hairs beneath. Flowers 

 yellow, in erect slender racemes, ter- 

 minating the shoots of the year, and 

 Whilst the racemes are themselves leafless, 

 growth above the flowers. Flowers crowded 

 t in. long, and borne on a slender, rather 

 Pod i to ii ins. 



sometimes more than I ft. long. 



they frequently extend into leafy 



on the raceme, each one ^ to 



shorter, hairy stalk. Calyx somewhat helmet-shaped, hairy. 



long, \ in. wide, hairy. 



Native of Central and S.E. Europe; introduced in 1730, 



This broom is 



