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This plant likewise produces horizontal, radical shoots with 

 small greenish flowers like those in P. rubella, which see. 

 Woods, Brookline, rare. May. Perennial. 



DECAJVDRM. 



285. GENISTA. 



GENISTA TINCTORIA. L. Wood Waxen. Dyers' Weed. 



Leaves lanceolate, smooth ; branches round, striate, 

 erect, unarmed. Sm. 



Root woody, tough, creeping extensively. Stem? or branches 

 numerous, erect or ascending, round, furrowed, smooth. Leaves 

 alternate, sessile, lanceolate, acute. Flowers on the upper part 

 of the branches, axillary, solitary, nearly sessile, bright yellow. 

 This plant has overrun the hills on the south side of Salem, so 

 as to give them, in the month of July, an uniformly yellow ap- 

 pearance at a distance. It was probably imported originally 

 from Europe. The whole plant is said to dye a fine yellow 

 colour. 



286. LUPINUS. 



LUPINUS PERENNIS. L. Common Lupine. 



Calyxes alternate without appendages, upper lip 

 emarginate, lower entire. L. 



This common garden flower grows wild very plentifully in 

 the woods at Watertown. Stems' erect, somewhat hairy. Leaves 

 digitate, consisting of about eight or ten lanceolate-wedge 

 shaped leaves, arranged like rays around the end of the petiole. 

 They are somewhat hairy and pale underneath. Flowers blue, 

 in a terminal spike or raceme. Perennial. 



287. CROTALARIA. 



CROTALAIUA SAGITTALIS. L. Rattle Pod. 



Hairy, erect, branching; leaves simple, lanceolate; 

 stipules opposite, acuminate, decurrent ; racemes op- 

 posite to leaves, about three flowered ; corollas 

 smaller than the calyx. 



