Genista.] . XXV. PAPILIONACEH ZA. 103 
distinction from Cytisus and other allied genera, are very differently 
viewed by different botanists. 
No thorns. Pod narrow, much flattened. 
Corolla and pod without hairs. Branches erect or ascending - 1, &. tinetoria. 
Corolla and pod hairy. Branches mostly prostrate ; / . 2 G. pilosa. 
Lower branches very thorny. Pod short and inflated : q . 3. G. anglica. 
1. G. tinctoria, Linn. (fig. 229). Dyer’s G., Greenweed.—Stems woody, 
branching and decumbent at the base, the flowering branches erect or 
ascending, 1 to 14 feet high, hard and stiff, but green. Leaves sessile, 
from narrow-lanceolate to broadly elliptical or nearly ovate, glabrous 
or nearly so, and often shining. J lowers in short racemes at the ends 
of the branches, each one shortly stalked in the axil of a lanceolate 
bract, with very small bracteoles below the flowers. Calyx short, all 
the teeth ending in a short, fine point, the upper 2 broadly lanceolate, 
the 3 lower very narrow. Petals about 6 lines long. Pod nearly an inch 
long, flattened, and quite glabrous. 
In pastures, thickets, and waste places, throughout central and 
southern Europe, across ‘Russian Asia to the Baikal, and northward to 
southern Sweden. Frequent in the greater part of England, south of 
Scotland only, and rare in Ireland. Fl. summer, rather early. The 
common form is erect, with lanceolate leaves ; in rich meadows it be- 
comes very luxuriant with ovate leaves; in dry rocky soils the stem is 
more branched, and almost prostrate, like the G. pilosa, from which it 
is always known by its more pointed leaves, and glabrous flowers and 
pods. [A decumbent hairy form found in Dorset and Cornwall is var. 
prostrata, Bab. ] 
2. G. pilosa, Linn. (fig. 230). L/aury G.—Stems woody and pros- 
trate, with numerous short, hard branches. Leaves shortly obovate 
or lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous above, but covered underneath with 
short, silky hairs. Flowers smaller than in G. tinctoria, of a bright 
yellow, on short pedicels in the axils of the last year’s leaves. Calyx 
silky. Petals also covered outside with silky hairs. Pod rather shorter 
and broader than in G@. tinctoria, thickly covered with longish hairs, 
which are appressed and silky when young, more spreading as the pod 
ripens. 
In pastures, heaths, and dry, gravelly or.stony places, common in 
central and southern Europe to the Caucasus, extending northward to 
southern Sweden. Rare in Britain, and only found south of Pembroke- 
shire on the west, and Suffolk on the east of England. FI. spring oer 
early summer. 
3. G. anglica, Linn. (fig. 231). Needle G., Petty Whin.—A small, 
loosely branched, spreading shrub, seldom a foot high, perfectly ¢ elabrous, 
the lower branches converted into short, but slender, ‘simple or branched 
thorns. Leaves small, lanceolate or ovate. Flowers few, in short, leafy, 
racemes, paler and smaller than in G. tinctorva ; the teeth of the calyx 
less unequal; the petals narrow, and often turning green in drying. 
Pods about 6 lines long, broad, and much inflated. 
On heaths, moors, and bushy pastures, in western Kurope, extending 
eastward to Denmark and north-western Germany. Frequent in England 
and the greater part of Scotland, but not recorded from Ireland. Fl, 
spring and early summer, and sometimes again later in the year. 
