134 FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



are obovate and slightly notched. The plant flowers during June 

 and July. 



Passing now to the order Leguminosce we note first the Dyer's 





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The Sweet Milk Vetch. 



Green- weed {Genista tincioria) — a shrubby plant, common in the 

 thickets and bushy places of South Britain, flowering from July to 

 September. The stem is woody and stiff, but green ; its base rests 

 on the ground, but it sends up erect flowering branches from one 

 to two feet high. The yellow flowers are arranged in terminal 



