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tincto’ria. 
a 
DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Genista. 
flowering into a spiral ; the very end, which one should be in. 
clined to regard as the summit, = iry. — yellow. 
Common Broom. a5 ete S. May, June.* 
GENIS‘TA. | Calvi a bbe: the upper 2, the 
lower 3-toothed: standard oblong, bent 
back from the stamens and pistil: legumen 
regular-shaped. 
G. Branches scored, cylindrical, upright: leaves spear- 
shaped, sm mooth: legumen cy] indeed ical, 
Dicks. b. s.=Fl. dan. 526—E. bot. 44—Kniph. 6-Fuchs. 808- 
Trag. 604—Dod. 763. 1~F. Bs i. b. 391-Ger. 1134. 1- 
GClus. i. 101. 2—Lob. obs. 521. 2, and ic. ii. 90. 2-Gere 
em. 1316. 1~Park. 229.7. 
Flowers in leafy spikes. Flower-Jeaves shorter than the 
blossoms. Calyx with ¢ nearly equal clefts. Bioss. neat 
egg-shaped, blunt; «wizgs oblong-ov val, keel ressed. Sime 
mit a little knob. Bloss. ys, It is justly io in E. 
mee d. Greenwood. Sue Wood Waxems 
Pastures a iden of cornfields, S. dos Aug.t 
* The young flowers are sometimes preserved as pickles. The plant, 
when burnt, affords a tolerably pure alcaline salt. Dr. Mead relates the 
ap ; but, whoever expects these effects to follow Spi ledhes drop- 
sical case will be greatly or A ste se that 
plentiful, and the dropsies soon disappeared. Jed. at vol. i. p- 373: 
i a -~ men kind of coffee. The plant, 
when growing large, merits wink our flowering s shrubs, ne, 5* 
count of the = Pty hapsny of i - golden coloured! blos soms. Page s, horses, and 
pores Lin Whe n the ag 
— se contents toa eo Foran aed we a aceontr antck 
men 
. + A yellow colour m fi , and for wool that 
is to be Sere g reen, the pani piste it to ote: Seneiee A ‘dean and a half 
of the powdered seeds, operates as a mild pu A decoction of the 
plant is sometimes diuretic, and therefore has prove serviceable in atop" 
sical Horses, cows, goats, ad sheep ea 
