Il6 LEGUMIN6SiE 



i6. HiPPOCREPis.— /{?./ with many crescent-shaped, i-seeded 

 joints. 



mts. 

 17. Onobrychis. — Fod straight, i -seeded. 



Group HI. — Leaves paripinnate, often ending in a tendril 



Tribe 6. Viciece. — Herbs : leaflets often toothed : stameiis diadel- 

 phous : pod 2-valved 



18. ViciA. — Style thread-hke. 



19. Lathyrus. — Style flattened. 



I. GENfsTA. — Shrubs, sometimes spinous ; leaves simple, 

 entire ; flowers in racemes, bracteate, generally yellow ; calyx 

 shortly 2-lipped, upper lip deeply 2-cleft, lower lip with 3 teeth ; 

 stamens monadelphous, 5 short with versatile anthers, and 5 

 alternating with them, long with basifixed anthers. (Name said 

 to be connected with the Keltic gen^ a shrub.) 



1. G. dnglica (Petty or Needle Whin). — A low shrub, about 

 a foot high, with tough curved bra?ic/ies, armed at intervals with 

 slender, very sharp re-curved spines, the upper branches leafy, 

 without thorns and flowering ; leaves ovate-lanceolate ; raceffies 

 short ; legumes smooth, inflated. The yellow flowers (like some 

 others belonging to this Natural Order) turn green in drying. 

 — Heaths ; common. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



2. G. pilbsa (Hairy Green-weed). — A low shrub with pros- 

 trate, furrowed, much-branched, spineless ste?ns ; obovate leaves^ 

 silky beneath ; small yellow silky flowers in short racemes ; and 

 downy legumes. — Dry heaths in the south ; rare. — Fl. May and 

 again in autumn. Perennial. 



3. G. tinctoria (Dyer's Greenwood, Woad-waxen). — A low 

 shrub, about a foot high, with tough, erect, spineless, glabrous 

 branches; bright green, lanceolate, ciliate leaves ; flowers }ellow, 

 in long racemes, glabrous ; and legumes smooth. It grows chiefly 

 in pastures on a clay soil, and was formerly used as a yellow dye. 

 This was probably the Pld^ita genista that formed the badge of 

 the Plantagenet family. — Fl. July — September. Perennial. 



2. Ulex (Furze). — Densely spinous shrubs; leaves in the 

 seedling ternate, afterwards spinescent ; flowers axillary, yellow, 

 with small bracts ; calyx yellow, deeply 2-lipped, upper lip obscurely 

 2-toothed, lower 3-toothed ; stamens monadelphous, alternately 

 short with versatile anthers, and long with basifixed ones ; legume 

 swollen, few-seeded, scarcely longer than the calyx. (Name said 

 to be connected with the Keltic ec or ac^ a prickle.) 



