46 Leguminosae. 



l.-^CYTISUS. 



CYTIS'US SCOPA'RIUS (109). Common Broom. 5—6. Calyx 



(326) 2-lipped without bracts at the base, upper lip 2-toothed, lower lip 



3-toothed, standard large, style coiled thickened upwards, stamens 



monadelphous, branches angled glabrous long straight, leaves ternate 



petiolate, upper ones simple, pods black. Heaths. 



Cytisus laburnum is the common Laburnum. 



\\.—ULEX. 



Much-branched thorny shrubs with simple leaves and yellow axillary 

 flowers, stamens monadelphous. 



U'lex na'nus (24). Dwarf-furze. 7 — i^f* Bracts minute, calyx nearly gla- 

 (325) brous, a bush 2—3 feet high. [N. Tb. C. CI. 



U'LEX EUROPiE'US (no). Furze, Gorse, Whin. 2—3 and 8—9. 

 (323) Calyx hairy with 2 ovate bracts, branches striate with acute branching 



spines and few minute lanceolate leaves, a bush 3 — 5 feet high. 



Heaths. 



III.— GENISTA, 



Calyx 2-lipped, upper lip deeply bifid, lower lip 3-toothed, standard oblong 

 entire, stamens monadelphous. 



GENISTA TINCTO'RIA (73). Dyer's Green Weed. 7—9. Stem 



(322) erect glabrous without spines, leaves lanceolate, stipules minute subu- 

 late, flowers yellow in slender racemes, each flower from the axil of 

 a bract. Thickets. 



GENISTA ANG'LICA (86). Needle Green Weed. 5—6. Branches 

 (320) armed with spines, flowers yellow solitary axillary, leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, stipules none. Heaths. 



IV. —ASTRA GA L US. 



Leaves unequally pinnate, leaflets entire, flowers in axillary racemes or 

 spikes, stamens diadelphous, calyx 5 -toothed, petals narrow, keel obtuse, pod 

 2-celled. 



ASTRAG'ALUS GLYCYPHYL'LOS (63). Milk-vetch. 6-9. Stem 

 (373) 2 — 3 feet zigzag, leaves 4 — 6 in., leaflets ii or 13 glabrous, flowers 



cream-coloured in compact ovoid racemes I — 2 in. long, peduncles 



shorter than leaves. Fields and Copses. 



ASTRAG'ALUS HYPOGLOTTIS. Purple Milk-vetch. 6—7. Stem 

 2 — 8 in., flowers purple in dense ovoid spikes, peduncles longer than 

 leaves. [C. 



v.— ONONIS. 



Calyx campanulate 5-clefr, standard large striate, wings oblong, stamens 

 monadelphous, legume swollen few-seeded, leaves simple or trifoliolate. 



