DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Genista. 263 



Genistella pilosa. Bauh. Hist. v. \.p. 2. 393./. 



Chamsegenista prima. Cluss. Pann. 49. f. 50. Hist. v. 1 . 103./. 



Ch. pannonica. Ger. £/«. 1313./ 



On dry elevated sandy downs or heaths. 



On high sandy ground about Bury, Suffolk. Mr, Dickson. About 

 Fornham, on the north side of Bury ; also on soap rocks, near 

 the Lizard Point, Cornwall. Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. At the foot 

 of Cader Idris, North Wales ; Mr. Griffith. With. 



Shrub. May, and again in September. 



Root long and woody. Stems numerous, much branched, scarred, 

 prostrate, round, with abundance of leafy, angular, or striated, 

 somewhat silky, young branches, so buried among grass and 

 other plants, that, when out of flower, the plant is difficult to 

 find. Leaves small, simple, scattered, with axillary tufts of 

 smaller ones, all recurved, obovate-lanceolate, rigid 3 dark-green 

 and smooth above ; finely silky underneath. Fl. small, bright 

 yellow, axillary and solitary, crowded about the tops of the 

 branches, each on a silky stalk. Cal. rather short, silky, as well 

 as the back of the standard. Legume oblong, rather compressed, 

 hairy. Seeds 3 or 4, seldom all perfected. 



3. G. anglica. Needle Green-weed. Petty Whin. 



Thorns nearly simple. Flowering branches unarmed. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate. 



G. anglica. Linn. Sp. PL 999. Willd. v. 3.943. Fl.Br.756. Engl. 



Bot.v.2.t.l32. Hook. Scot. 212. Fl. Dan.t.6l9. Ehrh.Arb.37. 

 G. minor aspalathoides, sive Genista spinosa anglica. Bauh, 



Pin.395. Prodr.lo7. Raii Stjn. 475. 

 G. aculeata. Ger. Em. 1320./. 



Genistella. Dod. Pempt.76Q.f. Fuchs. Hist. 220./. Ic.\25.f. 

 G. minor aspalathoides. Bauh. Hist. v. 1 . p. 2. 40 1 ./. 402. 



On moist boggy heaths, frequent. 



Shrub. May, June. 



Roots woody, long and creeping. Stems about a foot high, as- 

 cending, woody, round, alternately branched, the leafy branches 

 of the present year becoming next season permanent, woody, 

 sharp, prominent, awl-shaped thorns, almost always perfectly 

 simple, rarely bearing a small thorn or two near the base. 

 Leaves numerous, small, scattered, ovate, acute, entire, smooth, 

 rather glaucous, on short stalks, deciduous. Fl. solitary, in the 

 bosoms of several of the uppermost leaves, small, bright, lemon- 

 coloured ; the standard of a deeper yellow, turning green in 

 drying, as well as the wings. Keel remarkably long. Cal. smooth, 

 sharply toothed. Legume smooth, somewhat oval, turgid, beaked 

 with the awl-shaped recurved base of the style. Seeds 1 or 1 2. 



1 have restored the synonym of Fuchsius, first quoted by Dr. 

 Stokes^ and which I had considered as belonging to G. germa- 



