210 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
long as the calyx ; and about 8 lines long, Legume containing 8—10 seeds, 
(Dec. Prod.) A diffuse shrub. Naples. Height 3 ft.to 4 ft. Introduced in 
1818. Flowers yellow ; Juneand July. Legume brown ; ripe in September. 
Variety. 
* G.a.2 scaridsa. G. scaridsa Vin. (Frag. Fl. Ital. 1. t. 8.3 and our 
Jig. 828.) —An upright shrub, closely resembling the species. Intro- 
duced in 1821, and flowering in the Hort. Soc. Garden in June 
and July. It deserves a place in collections. 
23. G. tincto'R1A L. The Dyer’s Broom, or Green Weed. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 998. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 151.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 152. 
Sunonymes. _G. itdlica Lod. Cat. ; Base Broom, Green Wood, Dyer’s Weed, and Wood-waxen ; 
Genet des Teinturiers, Genét de Sibérie, Fr.; farbender Ginster, Ger. ; Bacellina Ztail. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 44.; and our jig. 329. 
Spec. Char, §c Root creeping. Stems almost upright. Branches round, 
striated, upright. Leaves simple, lanceolate, rather glabrous. Flowers gla- 
brous, in spiked racemes. Legume glabrous. (Dec. Prod.) A creeping- 
rooted low shrub. Common in Europe, in grassy fields, and in woods and 
copses, particularly in dry gravelly or sandy spils. Height 1 ft. to 3 ft. 
Flowers yellow ; July. Legume brown; ripe in September. 
Varieties, 
a Gt. 2 flore pléno.—There are plants. in the Epsom Nursery and 
the Hort. Soc. Garden. 
a G. t. 3 latifolia Dec. — Leaves broad- 
lanceolate. A native of Auvergne, on 
the Mont d’Or. ; 
G. t. 4 hirsuta Dec. — Leaves somewhat 
villose. Branches upright. A native of 
sunny meadows. 
a G. t. 5 praténsis Poll. — Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, rather hairy. Branches as- 
cending. Inhabits the mountainous parts 
of Upper Italy. 
‘It is very common in pastures, in many places, 
both in England and Scotland; but, when cows 
feed on it, it is said by Ray to give a bitter taste 
to their milk. All parts of this plant, and espe- 
cially the branches and leaves, have long been used by dyers for producing 
yellow, especially for dyeing wool that is afterwards to be dyed green with 
woad (Jsatis tinctoria L.). The plant is not 
now in cultivation for this purpose; but, in 
Norfolk ‘and Suffolk, it is still collected in 
quantities from sandy wastes and commons, 
and sold to the dyers. 
2% 24. G. (v.) spr’aica L. The Siberian 
Genista. 
Identification. Lin. Mant., 571.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 151. ; 
Don’s Mill., 2. p. 152. 
Synonymes. Genistdides elata Manch Meth. 132.; Ge- 
nista tinctoria var. N. Du Ham. ; 
Engravings. Jac. Hort. Vind., t. 190. ; and our fig. 330. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stems erect; and the whole 
plant more slender and taller than G. 
tinctoria, of which it is evidently only a 
variety. An erect shrub. Siberia. Height 
6 ft. Introduced in 1785. Flowers yellow ; 
June to August. Legume brown; ripe in 
September. 530. Genista (t,) sibirica 
329. Genista tinctéria. 
