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xxvi. leguminoste : genistete. [ Genista . 
adpressed the teeth lanceolate, bracteas minute, wings about 
the length of the keel. E. B. t. 743. 
Dry heaths, in many parts of England and Ireland. Near Ar- 
drossan and Dumfries, and in Galloway ; Scotland. Orkney. tj . 
7 — 11. — Smaller than the last in all its parts. The essential character 
consists in the more minute, rounded, close-pressed, and often hardly 
discernible bracteas, the calyx merely pubescent with more distinct 
teeth, shorter wings and the legume indehiscent; at least it may be 
observed remaining on the plant and still closed the year after it has 
arrived at maturity. Of this there are two forms : the one, which is 
usually so decumbent at the base as to exhibit only the ends of the 
branches above the herbage, has the wings flat, straight and shorter 
than the keel ; the other usually erect ( U. Gallii of Planchon), has 
the wings falcate and incurved, actually a little longer than the keel, 
but by their curvation appearing scarcely so long in the recent flower, 
consequently not folded over each other as in the last species ; but 
there seems to be several intermediate states. 
2. Genista Linn. Green-weed. 
Cal. 2-lipped ; upper lip with 2 deep entire segments, lower 
one with 3 teeth. Standard oblong, entire. Keel deflexed after 
flowering, blunt. Legume flat or turgid, many-seeded. — Leaves 
simple or trifoliolate. — Named from Gen , said by Theis to mean 
a shrub in Celtic. 
1. G. tinctoria L. ( Dyer's G.) ; unarmed, leaves lanceolate or 
elliptical nearly glabrous, stipules minute subulate, branches 
terete striate, flowers spicato-racemose, corolla and legumes 
glabrous. — a. branches erect. E. B. t. 44. — f3. stem and 
branches prostrate. 
Pastures, thickets, and borders of fields; frequent in England, rare 
in Scotland and Ireland. — |3. Heaths and rocks near Ivynance Cove, 
Cornwall, h . 7 — 9. — Stem 1 — 2 ft. high. Leaves rather distant, 
hairy at the edges. Flowers pale yellow, almost sessile, with a small 
floral leaf or bractea at the base. Employed to dye yarn of a yellow 
colour. 
2. G. pilosa L. (hairy G .) ; unarmed procumbent, leaves 
obovato-lanceolate complicate silky beneath, stipules ovate 
obtuse, flowers axillary on short pedicels, standard keel and 
legumes downy. E. B. t. 208. 
Dry sandy or gravelly heaths, rare. About Bury, Suffolk; in the 
forest, by the road from Maresfield to Groombridge, Sussex ; Devon- 
shire ; Little Malvern, Worcestershire ; near the Lizard and St. Agnes’ 
Head, Cornwall; Pembrokeshire, h- 5 and 9. — A small, much 
branched tortuose, woody-stemmed plant. Flowers small, bright yellow. 
3. G. A’nglica L. (Needle G ., or Petty- Whin ) ; spinous, spines 
simple none on the flowering branches, leaves ovato-lanceolate 
