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SPECIES II—GENISTA PILOSA. Zinn. 
Prate CCCXXVII. 
Stems shrubby, much branched. Branches procumbent, striate, 
glabrous or with adpressed pubescence, without spines. Leaves 
silky-hairy beneath, unifoliate, oblanceolate or obovate, with tooth- 
like stipules. Flowers axillary, arranged in dense racemes. Calyx 
densely pubescent, with broadly lanceolate teeth, entirely persis- 
tent. Corolla with the outside of the standard and keel hairy. 
Pod linear-oblong, much compressed laterally, hairy. 
On sandy and gravelly heaths. Very local in Cornwall, Sussex, 
Pembroke, Suffolk, and Worcestershire. 
England. Shrub. Spring. 
Stems much branched, “rooting” (Gr. and Godr.), leafless below. 
Leaves very shortly stalked, about + inch long, folded longitu- 
dinally. Peduncles produced from the centre of a fascicle of 
leaves, longer than the calyx, without bracteoles. Flowers about 
4 inch long, yellow. Calyx silky, with the upper lip having 2 
lanceolate lobes, the lower with 3 small triangular teeth. Pod 
blackish, falling out of the calyx readily when ripe, ? inch long, 
laterally compressed so as to be nearly flat, bossulated by the seeds 
causing the portion over them to bulge outwards. Seeds 8 to 7, 
globular compressed, olive-coloured. Of this species I have never 
seen living examples. 
Hairy Green Weed. 
French, Genét Velu. German, Behaarter Ginst. 
SPECIES IIL—GENISTA TINCTORIA. Linn. 
Pirate CCCXXVIII. 
Stems shrubby, much branched. Branches erect or ascending, 
rarely decumbent, striate, glabrous or slightly pubescent, without 
spines. Leaves glabrous, ciliated (or pubescent only on the ribs and 
margins), unifoliate, elliptical, with small adnate stipules which have 
a triangular point. Flowers axillary, arranged in dense racemes. 
Calyx glabrous or slightly pubescent, with subulate teeth, at length 
splitting in a circumcissile manner a little above the base, the teeth 
and upper portion of the tube falling off when the fruit is matured. 
Corolla glabrous. Pod linear-oblong, much compressed laterally, 
glabrous, or hairy only on the margin. 
Var. a, glabra. 
Branches erect or ascending. Plant glabrous. 
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