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SPECIES II.— GENISTA PI LOS A. Linn. 

 Plate CCCXXVII. 

 Stems shrubby, mucli branched. Branches procumbent, striate, 

 glabrous or with adpressed pul)escence, witliout spines. Leaves 

 silky -hairy beneath, unifoliate, oblanceolate or obovate, with tooth- 

 like stipules. Elowcrs axillary, arranged in dense racemes. Calyx 

 densely pubescent, with broadly lanceolate teeth, entirely persis- 

 tent. Corolla with the outside of the standard and keel hairy. 

 Pod linear-oblong, much compressed latei'ally, hairy. 



On sandy and gravelly heaths. Very local in Cornwall, Sussex, 

 Pembroke, Suffolk, and Worcestershire. 



England. Shrub. Spring. 



Stems much branched, "rooting" (Gr. and Godr.), leafless below. 

 Leaves very shortly stalked, about ^ inch long, folded longitu- 

 dinally. Peduncles produced from the centre of a fascicle of 

 leaves, longer than the calyx, without bracteoles. Plowers about 

 ■J inch long, yellow. Calyx silky, with the upper lip having 2 

 lanceolate lobes, the lower with 3 small triangular teeth. Pod 

 blackish, falling out of the calyx readily when ripe, | inch long, 

 laterally compressed so as to be nearly flat, bossulated by the seeds 

 causing the portion over them to bulge outwards. Seeds 3 to 7, 

 globular compressed, olive-coloured. Of this species I have never 

 seen Living examples. 



Hairy Green Weed. 



French, Genet Velu. German, Belumrter Ginst. 



SPECIES III— GENISTA TINCTORIA. Linn. 

 Plate CCCXXVIII. 

 Stems shrubby, much branched. Branches erect or ascending, 

 rarely decumbent, striate, glabrous or slightly pubescent, without 

 spines. Leaves glabrous, ciliated (or pubescent only on the ribs and 

 margins), unifoliate, elliptical, ^dth small adnate stipules which have 

 a triangular point. Plowers axUlary, arranged in dense racemes. 

 Calyx glabrous or slightly pubescent, with subulate teeth, at length 

 splitting in a circumcissile manner a little above the base, the teeth 

 and upper portion of the tube falling off when the fruit is matured. 

 Corolla glabrous. Pod linear-oblong, much compressed laterally, 

 glabrous, or hairy only on the margin. 



Var. a, glabra. 

 Branches erect or ascending. Plant glabrous. 



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