130 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
B. australis (southern). Stems 4 to 5 feet, branches diffuse. 
Leaflets long, wedge-shaped. Stipules large, lance-shaped, twice the 
length of the leafstalk. Flowers blue, in few flowered racemes; June. 
Introduced 1758. 
B. tinctoria (dyer’s). False Indigo. Stems slender, 2 to 3 feet. 
Leaves scattered, the leaflets roundish. Stipules reduced to small bristles. 
Flowers yellow, in loose terminal racemes; June. 
Cultivation Baptisms are easily grown in ordinary garden soil, 
but for successful blooming they require good loam. They 
may be propagated by division of the roots, but this does not give 
uniformly good results. They produce abundance of seeds, and these 
may be sown in spring, in pots filled with leaf-mould and sand, and 
germinated in a cold frame. The young plants should be transplanted 
into the border as soon as large enough. It should be noted that 
seedlings rarely flower before the completion of their third or fourth 
year. 
Description of The upper portion of a stem of Baptisia australis is 
Plate 64. here shown. From portions of the drawing it will be seen 
that the stamens as well as the petals drop off when their office has 
been discharged instead of shrivelling away, as more general in the 
order. The large stipules of this species are well shown near the base 
of the figure; fig. 1 is a section through the flower with the parts in 
their natural positions. 
BROOMS 
Natural Order LeguminoSjE. Genus Cytisus 
Cytisus (etymology of the name obscure). A genus of shrubs, rarely 
spinous, comprising about thirty-eight species, natives of Europe, North 
Africa, West Asia, and the Canaries. The leaves are simple or divided 
into three leaflets ; sometimes entirely wanting. Stipules minute. The 
flowers are white, yellow, or purple; they do not secrete honey. The 
calyx is two-lipped, of which the upper has two, and the lower three 
minute teeth. The standard is not fully expanded ; wings oblong; keel 
blunt. Stamens all united by their filaments, forming a complete tube 
enclosing the ovary; anthers alternately long and short. 
The cultivation of Cytisus in our gardens naturally 
began with our solitary native species, C. scoparius, the 
Broom, which deserves inclusion in the shrubbery border or plantation. 
C. spinosus, a South European species, was the first to be introduced 
