GENISTA TRFQUETRA. 
TRIANGULAR GENISTA. 
Orde r. 
DECANDUIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOS.E. 
N ative of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Corsica. 
2 feet. 
June. 
Shrub. 
in 1770. 
No. 668. 
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Genista, see No. 594. The specific name, trique- 
tra, alludes to the triangular stem which occurs in 
this species. 
During a month or more of the early part of the 
summer it is a remarkably gay shrub ; at which 
time it flowers most profusely, and may be easily 
so disposed as to enblazon the surface of a wall or 
terrace almost as with gold. It is not requisite 
that it should have the advantage of such situations 
otherwise than to assist its trailing habit, which un- 
less so aided will not admit of its rising so high as 
may be desirable in some situations, to show it to 
advantage. 
Where it is required to spread low over the sur- 
face of mounds, or on artificial rock-work, this 
shrub may be so trained as to produce a complete 
covering ; an object which it is not unfrequently 
desirable to attain, on irregular rocky borders. 
We have not seen this shrub ripen seeds, still it 
is probable that if grown under very favourable cir- 
cumstances it would do so. It may be readily and 
abundantly propagated by layers; and will grow 
in any common soil. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. y. 2, 149. 
Class. 
MONADELPHIA. 
