LEGUMENIFER. 3 
consisting of a single carpel, with the placentze turned towards the 
standard. Ovules usually several. Fruit a legume or pod (which, 
however, assumes very various forms), sessile or stalked within the 
calyx, generally dry and opening by both sutures, but sometimes 
1-seeded or breaking transversely into 1-seeded joints, and inde- 
hiscent. Seeds with the funiculus commonly dilated at the point 
where it is attached to the hilum. Cotyledons after germination 
sometimes becoming foliaceous: sometimes, although still appear- 
ing above ground, remaining thick: or sometimes never emerging 
from the seed-coat. adicle close to the hilum, generally curved, 
lying along the edges of the cotyledons. 
To this sub-order belong the whole of the British species of 
Legumenifere. 
Trine 1L—LOTE A. 
Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous. Pod continuous, not 
articulated, 1-celled or more rarely more or less perfectly, longi- 
tudinally 2-celled (by the inflexion of the sutures), dehiscent or 
indehiscent. Cotyledons changing into green leaves during 
germination. Stem not climbing or twining. Leaflets usually 
without stipels. 
Sus-TRIBE I.—GENISTE. 
Stamens monadelphous. Pod 1-celled. Stem often shrubby. 
Leaves trifoliate, unifoliate, or digitately pluri-foliate, more rarely 
without any lamine. 
GENUS I—ULEX. Linn. 
Calyx coloured, divided to the base into 2 lips; the upper lip 
with 2 small teeth at the apex, the lower one with 3. Corolla not 
much longer than the calyx, with the petals of nearly equal lengths. 
Standard oblong, emarginate, slightly spreading. Wings spreading. 
Stamens all united together, with the tube entire. Style filiform, 
curved upwards at the summit. Stigma capitate. Pod oval-oblong, 
swollen, about as long as the calyx. Seeds few, with the depressed 
hilum covered by the dilated funiculus. 
Small shrubs, with abortive branches converted into spines. 
First leaves of young seedlings trifoliate, but all the subsequent 
ones unifoliate; on mature plants all linear and terminating in a 
spine (doubtless a petiole without a lamina). Stipules completely 
