WHIN : BROOM 305 



of exposed honey, pollinated by bees. Flowers in long, 

 loose pendent racemes, numerous, large, golden-yellow, 

 on distinct pedicels. Calyx 2-lipped; style ascending. 

 Corolla yellow, the standard veined with dark lines. 

 Stamens monadelphous. Pollen citron-yellow punctate, 

 ellipsoid truncate, with 3 longitudinal folds ; about 32 /JL 

 long. Pod long (up to 5*5 cm.), linear, compressed, silky- 

 hairy, grey. 



Calyx slightly cut into 2 lips. 



O Upper lip of calyx deeply Z-toothed; 

 lower shortly %-toothed; flowers 10 mm. 

 in small leafy racemes. 



Genista anglica, L. Petty Whin. Small spinose bush, 

 with flowers pollinated by bees, as in Ulex. 



Flowers rather small, golden-yellow, in short, terminal, 

 simple bracteate racemes. Calyx deeply 3-partite into 



2 upper teeth and one broader 3-toothed lower lip. Stamens 

 monadelphous, pollen ellipsoid-rounded, alveolate, with 



3 folds. Style ascending. Pods broad, rhomboidal, and 

 glabrous. 



/~7 l~~l Both short lips of the calyx minutely toothed; 

 flowers solitary or geminate, 20 mm. long. 



Sarothamnus Scoparius. Broom (Fig. 121). Twiggy 

 bush, with large yellow homogamous flowers, devoid of 

 honey, pollinated by bees. 



Flowers lateral, singly or in pairs, on pedicels about as 

 long as the calyx, large, golden-yellow, forming long 

 bracteate racemes at the ends of the long shoots. Calyx 

 2-lipped. Stamens 10, monadelphous, 5 long and 5 short. 

 Style very long and inrolled like a watchspring. Pods 

 linear, up to 4 cm. long, compressed, black, and pubescent, 

 especially at the margins. 



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