THE GENISTA. 
Genista anrantica (the Anxantic Genista) 
is a low diffuse-growing shrub, with simple, 
ovate, elliptical leaves, and racemes of yellow 
flowers. It is from Naples. From its trail- 
ing habit, and profuseness of flowering, it is 
suited for rockwork. 
Genista aphylla (the leafless Genista) . — An 
upright-growing deciduous shrub, with few 
linear leaves, and violaceous coloured flowers, 
in long terminal racemes. It grows three or 
four i'eet high, and flowers in July, and is 
from the deserts of Siberia, about the Volga. 
Genista angulata (the angular-branched 
Genista) is a shrub growing from two to 
three feet high, with simple trifoliolate leaves, 
and yellow flowers, produced in June. From 
the woods of Maryland. 
Genista candicans (the whitish Genista) is 
an evergreen shrub of four or five fe«t in 
height, which it attains rapidly after planting. 
It has trifoliolate leaves and yellow flowers. 
Native of Mogadore, Italy, and the Levant. 
Flowers from April to July. This, and the 
other larger growing of the Genistas, are well 
adapted for planting in newly made shrubberies 
and plantations, where immediate effect is an 
object. 
Genista cinerea (the grayish Genista) is an 
erect, branchy shrub, from three to six feet 
high, with lanceolate leaves and sessile yellow 
flowers, produced in June and July. Native 
of hills and mountains in the south of Europe. 
Genista diffusa (the diffuse-growing Gen- 
ista) is a procumbent shrub, with lanceolate 
leaves and j'ellow flowers, flowering in May 
and June. The branches are three-angled. 
Genuta ephedreides (the Ephedra-like Gen- 
ista) is a low shrub, not exceeding two feet 
high, with rigid branches, linear leaflets, and 
spikes of yellow flowers. Inhabits the coast 
of Sardinia. It blooms in June. 
Genista jiorida (the florid Genista) is an 
erect growing shrub, reaching four feet high, 
with lanceolate leaves, and bearing yellow 
flowers in August. Native of south of Europe. 
Genista germanica (the German Genista) 
is a spiny shrub of two or three feet high, 
with lanceolate leaves, and yellow flowers 
in June, July, and August. Native of Europe. 
Suited for rock-work. A variety called iner- 
mis is almost spineless. 
Genista hispanica (the Spanish Genista) 
is a spiny under-shrub, from six inches to a 
foot high, with lance-shaped leaves, and yellow 
flowers in June and July. Native of Spain 
and the south of France. Suitable for rock- 
work. 
Genista horrida (the horrid Genista) has 
an angular spiny stem, four feet high, trifoli- 
olate leaves, and bears yellow flowers from May 
to July. Native of the Pyrenees. 
Genista humifusa (the trailing Genista) is 
a low trailing shrub, suitable for rock -work ; 
it has linear-lanceolate leaves, and solitary 
axillary yellow flowers, produced in May and 
June. From the Levant. 
Genista lusitanica (the Portugal Genista) 
is a very spiny branching shrub, with trifoliolate 
leaves, and terminal yellow flowers from March 
to May. It grows four feet high, and is a 
native of Portugal. 
Genista mantira (the Mantuan Genista) i.s 
a prostrate shrub with linear leaves, and yellow 
flower's borne from June to August. A native 
of the woods of Italy. 
Genista ovata (the ovate-leaved Genista) is 
an erect-growing shrub, from two to four feet 
high, with ovate-oblong leaves, and yellow 
flowers from June to August. A native of 
Sclavonia and Hungary. 
Genista parviflora (the small- flowered 
Genista) grows six or eight feet high. It is a 
deciduous shrub, with trifoliolate leaves, and 
lengthened terminal racemes of yellow flowers 
from May to August. A native of the 
Levant. 
Genista patens (the spreading Genista) 
grows from four to eight feet high, with tri- 
foliolate leaves, and yellow flowers, from April 
to July. Native of Spain. 
Genista patula (the spreading Genista) 
has linear-lanceolate leaves, and yellow flowers, 
produced from June to August. Introduced 
from the hills of Tauria ; grows four feet 
high. 
Genista pilocarpa (the hairy-fruited Gen- 
ista) is an erect shrub from two to three feet 
high. It has lanceolate leaves, and raeemose 
yellow flowers, borne in June and July. 
Genista pilosa (the hairy Genista) is a 
compact procumbent shrub, with obovate- 
lanceolate leaves, and axillary yellow flowers. 
A native of Europe; it flowers in May and 
June. 
Genista polygalcefolia (the milk-wort leaved 
Genista) is an erect shrub, of four feet in 
height, with lanceolate leaves, and yellow 
flowers, borne from June to August. Found 
in Spain and Portugal. 
Genista procumbens (the procumbent Gen- 
ista) is a procumbent shrub with lanceolate 
leaves, and axillary yellow flowers in threes. 
Native of Hungary and Moravia ; and flowers 
from June to August. 
Genista prostrata (the prostrate Genista) is 
a diffuse procumbent shrub, with ovate-oblong 
leaves, and axillary yellow flowers in May and 
June. A native of Burgundy and the Alps 
of Jura. 
Genista purgans (the purging Genista) is 
an upright plant from three to six feet high, 
leaves few, lanceolate ; flowers solitary, pale 
yellow, in June and July. From the hills of 
France. 
