LEGUMINOS^ 



Flowers golden - yellow, papilionaceous in a terminal raceme; Fruit a 

 legume. 



Leaves alternate, simple, linear, few, entire, silky. 



A deciduous shrub, 15-18 ft. ; Branches long, slender, terete, arching or 

 pendulous. 



Native of Sicily and Sardinia; introduced 1816. Also called Rock Broom. 



PETTY WHIN, Genista anglica. 



Heaths, moist moors, bushy pastures. Very suitable for the rockery or 

 wild garden. May, June. 



Floivers yellow, papilionaceous, | in. long, in a short, leafy raceme, 

 axillary, shortly pedicelled ; Calyx persistent, teeth short, triangular ; Corolla 

 glabrous, petals narrow ; Fruit a legume, | in. long, broad, acuminate both 

 ends, glabrous, deciduous, compressed ; seeds shining, olive. 



Leaves alternate, simple, ovate-lanceolate, entire, acuminate, sessile, 

 t\ ™. long. 



A deciduous shrub, 1-2 ft. ; Stem slender, spreading, ascending, curved ; 

 lower branches converted into slender, recurved, simple or branched spines, 

 ^-1 in. long. 



Native of Britain. Called also Needle Green Weed, Needle Furze, and 

 Heather Whin. 



SPANISH GORSE, Genista hispanica. 



Gardens. This is a dense, spiny undershrub, well suited for the rock- 

 garden. June. 



Floivers golden-yellow, papilionaceous, in a terminal raceme, somewhat 

 capitate ; Fruit a legume. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolate, entire, villous. 



A deciduous shrub, 1-2 ft. ; Spines branched, stiff, tloriferous branches 

 unarmed. 



Native of South-western Europe ; introduced 1759. 



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