GENIS TA ANXAN'TICA. 
ANXANTIC GENISTA. 
Order. 
DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
leguminos;e. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Italy. 
4 feet. 
1 June, July. 
A Shrub. 
in 1818. 
No. 687. 
Genista, see No. 594. Anxantica a valley in the 
kingdom of Naples. 
Our British Genista tinctoria, either as a dye or 
a medicine, or from its gaiety as a wild plant, dot- 
ting the green pastures over in brilliant little bushes 
of yellow, is generally known. The plant now 
before us is nearly allied to it, but is of more deli- 
cate and slender appearance, and diffuse in habit. 
It is a pretty evergreen shrub ; which at midsum- 
mer, with its bright green foliage and abundance 
of flowers, produces much gaiety of effect. 
When we comtemplate these plants in the gar- 
den or the fields, we are ready to say with an ad- 
mired author, Can it be believed that nature 
bestowed beauty on a flower but with a view to 
please ? Is not then the refusal to be pleased with 
these beauties, like the malignant and unthankful 
guest, who refuses to taste the most delicious dain- 
ties prepared for his entertainment ?” 
This slender little shrub should have a good 
depth of light soil. It is perfectly hardy, and pro- 
duces abundance of seeds. From these it may be 
raised with greater facility than from cuttings. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 2, 152 
Class 
MONADELPHIA. 
