GENISTA.] LEGUMINOS^. 91 



SERIES 3. Leaves abruptly pinnate (or leaflets 0) ; petiole ending in 

 a tendril or point. 



TRIBE VI. VIG'IE-ffi. Herbs. Leaves pinnate ; petiole ending in a tendril 

 or point. Leaflets often toothed. Upper filament separate. Pod 2-valved. 



Style filiform, hairy below or all round 16. Yicia. 



Style flattened, hairy on the upper margin only 17. Lathyrus. 



1. GENISTA, L. 



Shrubs, sometimes spinous. Leaves 1-foliolate in British species ; stipules 

 minute or 0. Flowers racemed, yellow, rarely white, bracteate. Calyx 

 shortly 2-lipped ; upper lip deeply 2 -fid, lower shorter 3-toothed. Wings 

 oblong, gibbous at the base, adnate to the staminal tube, deflexed after 

 flowering. Keel petals separating and not resilient after deflection. Fila- 

 ments all united, tube entire ; anthers alternately short and versatile, and 

 long and basifixed. Style incurved, stigma oblique ; ovules 2 or more. Pod 

 2-valved or indehiscent, 1 -celled. DISTRIB. Europe, "W. Asia, N. Africa ; 

 species 70. ETYM. obscure. 



1. G. tincto'ria, L. ; unarmed, leaflet oblong or lanceolate nearly 

 glabrous, racemes slender, keel and pod glabrous. Dyers' Greenweed. 

 Meadows and fields, from Wigton and Berwick southd. ; Ireland ; fl. July- 

 Sept. Stem 1-2 ft., branched, rigid, striate. Leaflets -1 in., appressed, 

 ciliate ; stipules minute, subulate. Flowers \ in., yellow, not honeyed. 

 Stamens, 4 outer ripen first, then 5th, followed by 5 inner. Calyx deciduous 

 above the base, teeth acuminate. Pod .1-1 3 in., compressed, 5-10-seeded, 

 DISTRIB. From Gothland southd., N. and W. Asia; introd. in N. 

 America. Yields a yellow dye. 



G. tinctoria proper (VAR. glabra, Syme) ; glabrous, branches erect or ascend- 

 ing. VAR. kumifu'sa, Syme ; branches decumbent hairy, as are the pedicels 

 calyx and pod. Kynance Cove, Lizard district. 



2. G. pilo'sa, L. ; unarmed, leaflet obovate-lanceolate obtuse complicate 

 recurved silky beneath, racemes short leafy, keel and pod pubescent. 

 Gravelly heaths, rare and local, Suffolk and S. "Wales to Cornwall and Kent ; 



fl. May-Sept. Stem much branched, curved, prostrate, tortuous, woody. 

 Leafets^m., very shortly petioled ; stipules .ovate, obtuse. Flowers I? in., 

 yellow. Calyx with 2 upper lobes lanceolate, and 3 lower subulate. Pod 

 in., deciduous, flat, valves bulging over the seeds. DISTRIB. From Goth- 

 land southd. to Greece and Tauria. 



3. G. an'glica, L. ; glabrous, spinous, leaflet ovate oblong or lanceolate, 

 racemes short leafy, keel and pod glabrous. Needle Furze. 



Heaths and moist moors, from Eoss southd. ; ascends to 2,200 ft. in the High- 

 lands ; fl. May-June. Branches 1-2 ft., slender, spreading, curved ; spines 

 |-1 in., slender, recurved, simple, rarely branched. Leaflets T V-3 in.; 

 stipules obsolete. Flowers | in., yellow, shortly pedicelled. Calyx persistent ; 

 teeth short, triangular. Pod f in., deciduous, inflated, acuminate at both 

 ends. DISTRIB. "W. Europe, from Denmark to France, Germany, and 

 Italy. 



