LEGUMINOSAE. 



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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. .Bosemann, 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. tinctoria. 

 Stipules deciduous. 2. 



2. Without spines: twigs tomentulose: prostrate. 



(2). G. pilosa. 

 With short spines: villous or glabrate: erect. 



(3). G. germanica. 



