LEGUMINOSAE. 147 
GENISTA. Whin. 
(Family Leguminosae). 
Small shrubs, sometimes spiny: 
deciduous. Twigs slender, ribbed 
or grooved: pith small, rounded, 
continuous. Buds small, solitary, 
sessile, ovoid, sometimes develop- 
ing the first season or collaterally 
branched and producing a green 
grooved spine, with some half- 
dozen scales. Leaf-scars _ alter- 
nate, much raised, minute: bun- 
dle-trace 1, indistinct: stipules at 
top of the leaf-cushion, or their 
scars indistinct. 
Winter-character references:— 
Genista anglica. Bosemann, 34. G. 
dalmatica. Schneider, f. 78. G. 
germanica. ‘Bosemann, 34. G. pi- 
losa. .BoOsemann, 34. G. radiata. 
Schneider, f. 89. G. _ tinctoria. 
Bosemann, 34; Schneider, f. 78. 
G. triangularis. Schneider, f. 89. 
1. Stipules persistent: twigs not spiny. (1). G. tinetoria. 
Stipules deciduous. 2. 
2. Without spines: twigs irik doeees bieeoas 
(2). G. pilosa. 
With short spines: villous or glabrate: erect. 
(3). G. germanica. 
