DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Genista. 
G, Leaves spear-shaped, blunt: stem with tubercles, pro- pilo’sa, 
strate. 
wae: austr, 208=E. bot. 208—Kniph. 5~Rose 3. 1~Clus. i. 
3. 2-Gers em. 1313. 6-Ger, 1132. 6-~F. B. i, 393. 2. 
u — seny or only Q orien Reicu. Stem and 
branches tough, ly lose to th ven beneath the moss ; 
stem much bra chet: the old branches naked, the young ones 
clothed with leaves. Leaves numerous, minvte, oval, or oval« 
res entire, smooth above, mah white silky hairs un- 
derne owe os goa ascending.  F/oqwers in. short 
= ag at the ends of t nches. PrasnisGhs short, hairy. 
Calyx hairy, yellowish Stet een ; lips nearly equal, pointed. Bless. 
ellow, hairy without, excepting the wings. Legum. hairy. 
r. Woopwarp, 
Pastures, heaths, dry and hilly places. About Lackford, 4 
or 5 miles from St. Edmund’s Bury. Sir J. Curium. Heaths 
near Bury, which are “perfectly yellow with it when in flower, 
= after flowering it is with difficulty found, the stems lying so 
to the ground. Mr. Woopwarp. Between Dolgelly and 
Lier, at the foot of Cader Idris, about half a mile from 
- Mr, GrirritH. | S. May, June. 
G. Very thorny; smooth: thorns simple and compound : 
leaves spear-shape 
Dicks. b. s.-E. bot. ee dan. 619—Dod. 760-Lob. obs. 
535. 2, and ic. its 93. 2-Ger, em. 1320. 4—Park. 1004, 
4—Ger. 1140. 5—Lonic. i. 39. 1. 
The old branches thorny, the flowering branches without 
thorns, or with scattered thorns. RELHAN. Stem much branched. 
The old branches peal without leaves, beset with thorns ; 
ery sha 
the sides » with numerous leaves intermixed wit thorns. 
Leaves sometimes oval, s h, entire, small, green. 
Flowers pale yellow, small, few. Legumens short, broad, smooth, 
3 or 4 seeds. Woopwarp, - Summit a 
small kno . vess. With from 3 to 14 seeds. 
Needle Ferns. Petty Whin. Needle Greenweed. Heaths, 
and moist t spongy ground, [ Bungay Common, Suffolk. Woopw, 
pie west of Bishops Auckland. Mr. Rosson. New Forest, 
tiecaet g 
S. May, June. 
ULEX. Calyx 2-leaved: legumen scarcely longer 
than the calyx. 
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