Il6 LEGUMINrts.'E 



i6. HiPPOCRp'pis.- Pod with many 'crescent-shaped, i-seeded 

 j(.iints. 



17. Onoerychis. — Pod straight, 1 -seeded. 



Grmip 171. — Leaves pa7-ipinnate^ often ending hi a tendril 



Pribe 6. VkiecE. — Herbs : leaflets often toothed : stamens diadel- 

 fhous : pod 2-vah<ed 



18. Micik.Style thread-hke. 

 ig. Lathvrus. — Style flattened. 



I. Genista. — Shrubs, sometimes spinous; leaves simple, 

 entire ; fioiuers in racemes, bracteate, generally yellow ; calyx 

 shortly 3-lipped, upper lip deeply 2-cleft, lower lip with 3 teeth ; 

 stamens monadelphous, 5 short with .versatile anthers, and 5 

 alternating with them, long with basifix'ed anthers. (Name said 

 to be connected with the Keltic ,^'t-;/, a. shrub.) 



1. G. dnglica (Petty or Needle W'hin). — A low shrub, about 

 a foot high, with tough curved branelies, armed at intervals with 

 slender, very sharp rc-curved spines, tjic upper branches leaty, 

 without thorns and flowering ; leaves ovate-lanceolate ; racemes 

 short ; legumes smooth, inflated. The yellow flowers (like some 

 others belonging to this Natural Ordar) turn green in drying. 

 — Heaths ; common. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



2. G. pilbsa (Hairy Green-weed). — Jv low shrub with pros- 

 trate, furrowed, much-branched, spineless stems ; obovate leaves, 

 silky beneath ; small yellow silky flowers in short racemes ; and 

 downy legumes. — Dry heaths in the south ; rare. — PI ]\lay and 

 again in autinnn. Perennial. 



3. G. tinctbria (Dyer's Greenwood, '\\'oad- waxen). — A low 

 shrub, about a foot high, with tough, erect, spineless, glabrous 

 branches ; bright green, lanceolate, ciliate leaves ; flowers )ellow, 

 in long racemes, glabrous ; and ^i,^/;/7Mismooth. It grows chiefly 

 in pastures on a clay soil, and was formerly used as a yellow dye. 

 This was probably the J'ldnta genista that formed the badge of 

 the Plantagenct family. — PI. July — SeptQmber. Perennial. 



2. Lii.EX (Furze). — Di.nsely spinous shrubs; lta7'es in the 

 seedling ternate, afterwards spinescent; ; floivers axillary, yellow, 

 with small bracts ; calyx yellow, deeply 2-lipped, upper lip obscurely 

 2-toothed, lower 3-toothed ; stamens nionadelphous, alternately 

 short with versatile anthers, and long with basifixed ones ; legume 

 swoUen, few-seeded, scarcely longrr th:jn the cal\\. (Name said 

 to be connected with the Keltic ec or ac, a prickle.) 



