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rfividcxl ! lower with three nearly equal teeth. Cor, papi- 

 lionacocius : ilandard oblong, remote from the keel, entirely 

 reflexed ; wiiiijs oblmig, lax, iltorter than the other petal,; ; 

 keel ftraight, cmargiiiate, longer than the llamlard. Stam. 

 Filaments ten, all united, emerging from tlie keel ; aiilluri 

 fir.iple. P'Ji- GeruiL-n oblong, enveloped by the con\mon 

 filament ; ityle finiple, directed upwards ; flignui acute, in- 

 ■volute. Piiic. Legume rounditli or oblong, turgid, of one 

 cell and two valves. Sa-ils ievcral, inolHy kidncy-ftiaped, 

 with a fniooth elevated border round the fear. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx two-lipped, the upper lip witli two teeth, 

 lower with three. Stiuidard oblong, bent backwards from 

 the reil of the flower. 



A genus ol flnrubs, almoft entirely European, with tough 

 angular llems and branches, either teniate or funple leaves, 

 and yellow flowers. \\ iUdeiunv has twenty-five fpecies, 

 eighteen of which are unarmed, the other feven furniihed 

 \vith fpines, in many inllauces remarkably compound. The 

 ipinous ones have all iimple leaves. Three Gi:niJ}i!: are na- 

 tives of Britain. 



G. iirMcria. Engl. Bot t. 44. Dyer's Green-weed. So"" 

 called from its ule in dyeing yellow, and, with the addition 

 of woad, green. Ray fuys it gives a bitter flavour to the 

 milk of cows that feed upon it. 



G. pilofa. Engl. Bjt. t. 208. Hairy Green.\?hed. Found 

 only on high fandy ground about Bury, Su.TcJk, at the 

 foot of Cadcr Idris, North Wales, and on foap rocks near 

 the Lizard point. It grows quite proilrate, and is difficult 

 to find except in May, when it flowers copionfly and forms 

 a ricJi golden carpet. Mr. Rofe firft delcribed this as an 

 Englifli plant, and figured it in his Introduction to Botany, 

 appendix 45^. t. 3. 



G an'jl'ua. Engl. Bot. t. 132. Needle Green-weed, or 

 Petty V/hin. This is our only fpinous fpecies, and its fpines 

 arc very confpicuous, long, limple, and fpreading. St::m of 

 humble growth, but nearly erect. Flowers not inelegant, 

 turning green when dried. It is frequent on moift turfy cr 

 iandy heaths, blodoming in May and June. 



G. candicans,filnricn,jlnnJa, and tnqiwlra, are hardy gar- 

 den plaiits, worthy of cultivation for llieir beauty or fmgu- 

 larity. The firll efpecially has a (howy appearance when 

 trained againll a wall. G. canancnfis, and linifuHa, Curt. 

 Mag. t. 442, are rather grcenhoule Ihrubs, and the latter is 

 very elegant on account of its filky fdvery leaves." It grows 

 in SN\ntzerland as well as in Spain, but like many other alpine 

 plants, does not well bear our winters. 



Gkxi-STA, in GarJening, comprehends plants of the low 

 fiirubby evergreen and deciduous kinds, of whiclt the fpecies 

 chiefly cultivated are, the common dyer's broom (G. tinc- 

 toria) ; the \uinted broom (G. fagittalis) ; the Spanifli dyer's 

 broom (G. florida) ; the hairy broom (G. pilofa) ; the Eng- 

 lifli geniila petty-wliite, or needle fur/.e ((}. Ang ica) ; the 

 hoarv genift;a, or Mnntpelier cytilus (CJ. caudicans) ; and 

 ihe Canary gcnilla or cytifus (G. canarieniis. ) 



Method of Culture. — The fix firll forts are all of the hardy 

 kind, and capable of being increafed by fowing the feeds in 

 beds of common mould, and, which is better, in the borders 

 or clumps where they are to remain; but which fliould be 

 done in the early autumnal or fpring feafons, though the 

 former is by much the better, as a great deal of time will be 

 faved. In cafes where they are raifed in beds, the plants 

 fhould be carefully taken up and removed, as foon as they 

 have attain.J about twelve months' growth, into the fituatioi s 

 in which they are to continue. In the latter mode of culti- 

 vation, they however require no other management than that 

 of properly thinning them outj and keeping them free from 

 a!I forts of weeds. 



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forward. As foon as the plants have acquired a little growth 

 th.ey fliould be removed into feparate fmall j.ots, and be im- 

 mediately replung -d in the hot-bed. In their after-manage- 

 ment they demand the fame fort of attention as other Lf* 

 tender kinds of grecn-houfe plants. 



Each of ihe tirll fix forts are proper for the more for- 

 ward parts of the chimps and borders in ornamented grounds, 

 and have a good eflecl from the fine appearance of their 

 flowers. 



The lad kind produces a variety among other erernreea 

 plants in the green-houfe coUeftion.s. 



GENITA BltljjOE, in Gcovrafihy, a town of America, i.i 

 Powliatan county, Virginia, 166 miles from Wafnir.gtcn. 



GjisiT.A-ffi/jHfl, in Mytholory, a goddefs wiio pitfided over 

 child-birth, to wkomthe Romans fiicrificed a dog. 



GENITAL, Genit.^i.i.s, in Anatomy, fomething that 

 relates \.Q ^duration ; whicli fee. 



Gi.si\ ;\i. gods, dii genii rdes, are fometimcs iifed in the an- 

 cient Roman poets tor thoie we olherwife call indlgitcs. 



Aufonii'.s, in the argument of the fourth book of the 

 /Eneid, takes tlie word in a different manner : the Jii gent- 

 tales, lie obierves, were fuch as were not born of huinai* 

 parents, and were not thus called qunfi genitl ex hominibut, 

 but rather becaufe they themfelves had begot human chil- 

 dren . 



GENITALIA, or Genitores, in Anatomy, a name 

 fomc times given to the telles or tellicles of a man, on ac- 

 count of tlieir office in gcneralicn, w.Hich fee. 



(iENITE, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Correze ; iS miles W. of Brive. 



GENI I'ED, in Geometry. See Genicratkd. 



GENITES, V'.nrr , or Genetel, among the ILlre'ws-, 

 thole that defcended from Abraham, wilhojt any mixture of 

 foreign blood. 



The Greeks diftinguinied by the names of o-enites fuch 

 of the Jews as were ilfued from ;)arents who, during- the 

 B.ibylonifli captivity, had not allied with any gentile fa- 

 mily. 



Genitive, in Grammar, the fecond cafe of the declen- 

 fions of nouns. ' 



When one thing is reprefented as belonging to another, 

 in the relation ofcaufe, origin, or author, its name has a ter- 

 mination given to it, called the genitive cafe ; and as the au- 

 thor is properly the owner of a thing, the genitive is alfo 

 called the p'i[fe[fi-ue cafe. 



In Englilli, the genitive cafe is made by prefixing the 

 particle of ; or it is exprefled by an apollrophe, wit'i the let- 

 ter j coming after itv as " thy father's houfe:' when the 

 plural ends in j-, the other s is omitted, but the apollrophe is 

 retained, as " on eagles' wings :'' fometimes alio, when the 

 fingular terminates in Js, the apoftrophic s is not added ; as 

 " for righteoufnefs' fake." In French the genitive is exprefled 

 by dc, or dn, &c. though, in itricbiofs, there arc no cafes at 

 all, or at moil only two, in cither of thefe languages, inaf- 

 much as they do not exprefs the diliercnt relation of thing* 

 by different terminations, but only by additional prepoii- , 

 tions. (See C.VSE.) 



An ingenious grammarian obferves, that though the ter- 

 mination called the genitive cafe be rendered by of, it 

 means invariably yj-om, beginning, motive; and this, he fa)'s, 

 feems to bo the true lignification of of, if we regaid 

 its etymology, it being taken from a?, a;ro, ab, from ; 

 and though cuilom feems to have aVfigiied it fome dif- 

 ferent imdeliiiablc meaning, it is in all files refolvablj it.to 

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