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CYTISUS 



beneath a group of taller thinly planted shrubs. A good system of cultivating 

 it is to cut out the flowering shoots as soon as the flowers have faded, leaving 



the young growths that always spring up from 

 near the ground to form the flowering shoots for 

 the following year. Seeds provide the best means 

 of propagation, and a sufficient quantity of them 

 should, of course, be left 'to ripen for the pur- 

 pose. There is a white-flowered variety (FLORE 

 ALBO), and one with more rosy flowers (CARNEUS 

 or ROSEUS). 



C. RATISBONENSIS, Schaffer. 

 (C. biflorus, L'Heritier; Bot. Reg.,-t. 308.) 



A deciduous shrub, ultimately 4 to 6 ft. high, 

 the erect, round branches covered with short, 

 greyish, appressed down. Leaves trifolialate, on 

 stalks j to | in. long ; leaflets f to \\ ins. long, 

 \ to \ in. wide ; covered beneath with appressed 

 hairs, the margins ciliate ; upper surface smooth 

 except when young. Flowers produced during 

 May, two to four together at each joint of the 

 previous summer's wood ; they are bright yellow, 

 I in. or more long, the standard petal roundish 

 and \ in. across ; calyx tubular, \ in. long; pod 

 I in. long, 1% in. wide, both with appressed hairs. 



Native of Europe from Germany to the 

 Caucasus, abundant in Hungary and the Balkan 

 States. It is very hardy, and easily increased by 

 the numerous seeds it bears ; altogether a hand- 

 some and useful broom. It comes from the 

 Continent under a variety of names and in slightly 

 differing forms, varying in stature and in the 

 character of the down. C. ELONGATUS, Wald- 

 stein, for instance, is a robust form with down 

 of a more felted character mixed with outstanding 

 hairs. Then such names as ruthenicus, uralensis, 

 and serotinus indicate plants scarcely differing 

 from the type. Mr Briquet makes it a variety 

 of C. hirsutus, but that is well distinguished by 

 its dwarfer, more spreading habit, and especially 

 by the hairs not being appressed. 



C. SCOPARIUS, Link. COMMON BROOM. 



(Sarothamnus scoparius, Koch?) 



A deciduous shrub, up to 5 or 6 ft. high in the 

 open ; twice as high when drawn up in shrub- 

 beries. Although the leaves fall in autumn, the 

 plant, by the greenness of its branches, retains 

 an evergreen aspect through the winter. Branch- 

 lets erect, straight, prominently angled, hairy 



CYTISUS PURPUREUS when y un g- Leaves at the base of the shoot 



trifoliolate and stalked, those near the end stalk- 

 less and often reduced to one leaflet. Leaflets obovate, sometimes narrowly 

 so, J to in. long, smooth except beneath when quite young. Flowers a rich 







