112 LEGUMiNos^. [Genista. 



minute subulate, branches rounded striated, flowers spicato-race- 

 mose, corolla and legumes glabrous." — Br. Fl. p. 94. E. B. t. 

 44. 



In roush pastures, and dry borders of fields and thickets, in very many places, 

 abundantly. Fl. July, August. Fr. September. Tj . 



E. Med. — Abundant on Ashey common. Pastures between Wootton common 

 and Newport, frequent. In woods and pastures along the shore between Wootton 

 Creek and King's Quay. On the slipped banks along the shore between Hyde 

 and Binstead in one spot plentifully. Field between Quarr Abbey and Ninham. 

 In a meadow on Brading marshes, abundantly. 



IV. Med. — Very plentiful in many places about Fres-hwaler. Most abundantly 

 in pastures in the vicinity of Newport race-course. Rough clay pasture-ground 

 between W. Cowes and Gurnet Bay, about Egypt, &c., abundantly. 



Root woody, very long, tortuous, much-branched, and creeping horizontally in 

 all directions, the bark deep brown, rough and wrinkled. Stems numerous, form- 

 ing a bushy tuft, woody, leafless and depressed at the base, soon emitting many 

 (annual ?) green, slender, angular and striated, leafy branches, which are ascend- 

 ing below, then erect, from about 12 — 18 inches high, glabrous and usually sim- 

 ple below, more or less alternately branched in the upper part, the branches axil- 

 lary, short, erect or diverging, and like the main stems quite destitute of spines, 

 more or less beset with fine, downy, scattered hairs. Leaves alternate or scattered, 

 on very short almost obsolete flat petioles, a little remote, erect or diverging, flat, 

 dark green, smooth and shining, the lowermost 2 — 3 lines in breadth, mostly 

 lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, glabrous excepting along the margins and 

 midrib beneath, which are fringed with silky hairs. Stipules extremely minute, 

 triangular-subulate. Flowers solitary, axillary, erect, crowded at the summits of 

 the yearly (?) shoots into lax oblong racemes. Peduncles hairy, shorter than the 

 calyx, bearing a pair of subulate bracts above the middle. Calyx yellowish 

 green, tubuloso-campanulate, about i inch long, slightly hairy, somewhat 2-lip- 

 ped, the segments about equal in length, ciliated, the 2 upper triangular-subu- 

 late, straight, the 3 lower smaller and narrower, mostly connivent, finally decurved, 

 (Leighton). Corolla brifilit yellow inclining to orange, about 3 times as long as 

 (he calyx, glabrous; standard roundish, the margins more or less deflexed, ovate, 

 obtuse and eniarginate, with a very short, abrupt, vaulted claw ; wings elliptical- 

 oblong, very obtuse, nearly the length of the keel, their claws long and narrow ; 

 keel oblong, very obtuse, thin and flat anteriorly, a little hairy on its inferior edge, 

 its laminae at first cohering, at length separating, and together with the wings 

 deflexed or pendulous; as long as the standard, spurred above their slender claws. 

 Stamens ascending, all united (mouadelphous) into a glanduloso-pubescent tube : 

 anthers large, oblong, yellowish, at length dark purple and linear. Style greenish, 

 ascending, glabrous, cylindrical, recurved at the apex ; stigma flat. Legumes 

 spreading or snberect, from about 9 to 15 lines in length, straight or somewhat 

 falcate, strongly compressed, torulose, dark brown or nearly black, shining and 

 glabrous. Seeds roundish and subcompressed, usually about 6 — 9, sometimes 

 more or less, rarely all perfect, olive-brown or greenish, very smooth, shining and 

 glabrous ; hilum round, with an oblique, tumid, annular border. 



2. G. anglica, L. Needle Green-tveed. Petty Whin. " Spi- 

 nous, spines simple none on the flowering branches, leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, glabrous, stipules obsolete, flowers axillary somewhat 

 racemed, corolla and legumes glabrous."— .Br. Fl. p. 95. F.B. t. 

 132. Guimp. und Hayne, Ahhild. der Deutsch. Holtzart. ii. 162, 

 t. 121. 



On moist heaths, moors and pastures, also in spongy bogs, not unfrequent. 

 J*/. May, June. /"r. July. Tj . 



E. .Med.— Abundant on the moory parts of Munsley Hill, by Godshill. About 

 Rookley farm, and on the deepest and wettest bog near the Wilderness. On a 



