104, THE PEAFLOWER TRIBE. [ Genista. 
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 Pembrokeshire on the 
west, and Suffolk on the east of England. FU. spring or early summer. 
3, G. anglica, Linn. (fig. 230). Needle Genista, Petty Whin.—A 
small, loosely branched, spreading shrub, seldom a foot high, perfectly 
glabrous, 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. tinctoria; the teeth of 
the calyx less unequal; the petals narrow, and often turning green in dry- 
ing. Pods about 6 lines long, broad, and much inflated. 
On heaths, moors, and bushy pastures, in western Europe, extending 
eastward to Denmark and north-western Germany, Frequent in England 
and the greater part of Scotland, but not recorded from Ireland. 1. 
spring and early summer, and sometimes again later in the year. 
Ill. CYTISUS. BROOM. 
Shrubs, with stiff, green branches, the leaves mostly with 3 digitate 
leaflets. Calyx campanulate, with 2 short, broad lips, minutely toothed at 
the top. Petals broad, the keel obtuse and slightly incurved. Stamens 
all united into a complete sheath. Pod flat, much longer than the calyx. 
Seeds several, with a strophiole at the hilum. 
A large genus extending over Europe and the Mediterranean region to 
the Canary islands. The most constant character to distinguish it from 
Genista is the strophiole of the seed, but in the case of most species it is 
also known by the 3-foliolate, not simple leaves, broader petals, etc. The 
only British species was, in the first edition of this work, after some modern 
botanists, separated under the name of Sarothamnus, chiefly on account of | 
the style; but some Spanish and Portuguese species show a gradual passage 
from the long spiral to the short and straight style. ; 
The Jrish Broom of our gardens is the C. patens from Portugal, not a 
native of Ireland. The Spanish Broom belongs to the genus Spartium. 
Several other south European true Cyéis¢ are cultivated in our gardens, 
1, C. scoparius, Link. (fig. 231), Common Broom.—A shrub, of 3 to 
5 feet, glabrous or nearly so, with numerous long, straight and erect, 
green, wiry branches prominently angled. Lower leaves shortly stalked, 
with 3 small, obovate leaflets; upper leaves sessile; the leaflets often re- 
duced toa single one. Flowers large, bright yellow, solitary or in pairs, 
on slender pedicels, in the axils of the old leaves, forming handsome leafy 
. racemes along the upper branches. Petals all broad, the standard broadly 
orbicular, the keel often deflected as in G'enista. Style very long and 
spirally incurved. Pod 13 to 2 inches long, flat, hairy on the edges, but 
glabrous on the sides, the seeds attached to a line considerably within the © q 
edge of the pod. Sarothamnus scoparius, Koch. 
On dry, hilly wastes and bushy places, chiefly in western Hurope, but 
