DIADELPHIA-DECANDRIA. Genista. 263 



Shrubs of humble growth ; sometimes armed with strong, 

 simple or compound, thorns ; branches in some winged. 

 Leaves alternate, simple, entire. JFl. small, yellow, axil- 

 lary, solitary. The supposed species with ternate leaves 

 appear to me doubtful as to their genus. We have none 

 of them in Britain. 



1. G. tinctoria. Dyer's Green- weed. Wood-waxen. 



Leaves lanceolate, smooth. Branches round, striated, erect, 

 without thorns. 



G. tinctoria. Linn. Sp. PL 998. fVilld. v. 3. 939. Fl. Br. 754. 



Engl. Bot. V. 1. t. 44. Hook. Scot.2\ 1 . Fl. Dan. t. 526. Dad. 



Pempt. 763./. Ehrh. Arh. 27. 

 G. n. 350. Hall. Hist. v.\.\52. 

 Genistella. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. G7 f. 1. 

 G. tinctoria. Raii Syn. 474. Ger. Evi. 1316./. 

 G. infectoria vulgi. Lob. Ic. v.2.89.f. 

 Tinctorius flos. Fuchs. Hist. 808. f. /c. 467./ Dalech. Hist. 



\7o.f. Bauh. Hist. V. I. p. 2.391. f. 



In pastures, thickets, and the dry borders of fields. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Root woody, creeping widely. Stems depressed, with numerous 

 ascending, rarely recumbent, straight, fiirrowed, leafy, smooth 

 branches. Leaves scattered, nearly sessile, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 . convex, of a deep shining green, a little hairy at the edges and 

 midrib, at least while young. FL on short axillary stalks, 

 crowded about the summits of the branches, with a pair of small 

 awl-shaped bracteas a little below the base of the deeply cut, 

 smooth, angular calyx. Pet. of a uniform bright yellow. Odd 

 stamen very deeply separated. Legume nearly cylindrical, with 

 numerous seeds. 



The whole plant affords the dyer a good yellow colour, and with 

 Woad a good green. Ray says the milk of cows feeding upon 

 it is rendered bitter, which flavour is communicated to butter 

 and cheese. 



2. G. pilosa. Hairy Green- weed. 



Leaves obovate -lanceolate, obtuse ; hairy beneath. Stem 

 tuberculated, prostrate, without thorns. Calyx and 

 flower-stalks silky. 



G. pilosa. Linn. Sp. PL 999. Willd. v. 3. 941 . H. Br. 755. EngL 

 BoL V. 3. L 208. Rose Elem. append. 452. t. 3. Dicks. H. Sice, 

 fasc. 16.16. Jacq. Austr. t. 208. FL Dan. L 1 225 j too upright. 

 Ehrh. Arb. 66. 



G. n. 351. HalLHisLv. I. 153. 



G, minima. Dalech. Hist, \73.f. 



