PAPILICNACE2E. 



185 



in Scotland and Ireland. Fl. summer, 

 rather early. The common form is erect, 

 with lanceolate leaves ; in rich meadows 

 it becomes very luxuriant, with ovate 

 leaves ; in dry rocky soils the stem is 

 more branched, and almost prostrate, 

 like the hairy G. t from which it is al- 

 ways known by its more pointed leaves, 

 and glabrous flowers and pods. 



Fie. 225. 



2. Hairy Genista. Genista pilosa, Linn. (Fig. 226.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 208.) 



Stems woody and prostrate, with nu- 

 merous short, hard branches. Leaves 

 shortly obovate or lanceolate^ obtuse, 

 glabrous above, but covered underneath 

 with short, silky hairs. Flowers smaller 

 than in the Dyers G., 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 the 

 Dyers G., 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, ex- 

 tending northward to southern Sweden. 

 B,are in Britain, and only recorded from 

 Pembrokeshire, Cornwall, and Devon- 

 hire, in the west, and Sussex and Suffolk, in the east of England. 

 spring or early summer. 



Fig. 226. 



Fl. 



