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branches diffiifed. This differs from the common djr- 
er’s weed, No. 7, in having the branches deprelled on 
every fide and procumbent; whereas that is upright. 
Native of Sweden, Germany, Auftria, Carniola, Hun¬ 
gary, Swifferland, France, Italy, and Spain; not known 
to grow wild in England till it was difcovered about 
Lachford, four or five miles from St. Edmund’s Bury 
in Suffolk, by tlie late fir John Cullum, bart. and 
Mr. Dickfon. Mr. Woodward obferves that Caven- 
ham and other heaths near Bury appear yellow with the 
great plenty of thefe flowers ; the flowering branches 
Banding up : at other times it is difficult to find this 
ffirub, the Bern and branches being fo clofely procum¬ 
bent, that they are often found even beneath the mofs. 
It flowers in May. 
II. Geniffa huinifufa : leaves lanceolate, ciliate; 
branches proBrate, Breaked, villofe. Native of the 
Levant. 
II. Thorny. 12. Geniffa Anglica, Engliffi geniffa, 
petty whin, or needle furze : thorns fimple, awl-(haped; 
flowering-branches abbreviated, unarmed ; leaves lan¬ 
ceolate, acute ; legumes Braightiffi. Stem much branch¬ 
ed ; branches toujli, without leaves, furniffied with ex¬ 
tremely fliarp ffender tlsorns, from a quarter to half an 
inch in length ; the fiioots of the year grow in bundles 
on the fummits of the old ones, and fparingly from the 
fides, bearing numerous, fmall, bright green, (glaucous 
on the young ffioots, Ray,) oval or lanceolate, (narrower 
and Biarper on the older branches, Ray,) fmooth, entire 
leaves, intermixed with foft fpines, (fcattcred; but 
fometimes there are none, Rel/i.) flowers fmall, pale, 
yellow, few ; legumes fltort and broad. Native of Dau- 
phine, Denmark, and Britain, on heaths, ufually in moiff 
fpongy ground. 11 flowers fyom the end of May to J uly. 
13. Geniffa Germanica, German geniffa or broom : 
thorns compound; flowering-branches elongated, un¬ 
armed ; leaves lanceolate, hairy ; legumes oblong, 
Braightifli. Stems about a foot and half in height, very 
much branched ; the old branches have no leaves, but 
Brong branched thorns ; the younger ones are full of 
green hairy leaves, of an ovate-lanceolate form, the 
lower ones broader and rather ovate ; they come out ei¬ 
ther in threes, or iingly alternate : thefe all'o frequently 
have foft, tender, fimple, thorns. Native of Germany; 
Swifferland, as about Laufanne, Bafil, &c. Savoy, on 
Mont Salcve, near Geneva, obferved by Ray ; Dau- 
phine. Piedmont, Carniola, and Arragon, in dry woodv 
places. It flowers the end of May or the beginning of 
.[line, and ripens its feeds in September. Introduced 
1773, by the earl of Bute. 
14. Geniffa Plifpanica, dwarf prickly geniffa or broom 
Ipines decompound ; flowering branches unarmed ; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, hairy ; legumes ovate, ffraight. 
This rifes with woody Balks, two or three feet high, 
lending out many taper-channelled branches, which 
grow ereiit ; flowers yellow, in terminating fpikes, fuc- 
ceeded by fliort pods, which turn black when ripe, and 
contain four or five kidney-lhaped feeds. Native of 
Spain, South of France, and Carniola ; flowers in, June 
and July, and the feeds ripen in autumn. 
IS.. Geniffa‘Lufitanica, Portugal geniffa or broom: 
ftcin Icaflefs ; thorns dccuflated. Tlif woody ffems are 
leaflefs ; the younger ffems leafy, and covered with de- 
cuffated fpines. Native of Portugal. Introduced in 
by Mrs. Primmet. It flowers from.March to May. 
16. Geniffa fcandens,. climbing geniffa or broom; 
fpines fimple ; ftem climbing; leaves bipinnate. 'I'his 
is a large fhrub, witli a very long, round, climbing, 
branched, Beni, having many fhort recurved fpines fcat- 
tered over it. Native of Cochin-china, near rivers’, 
mounting to the top of large trees, and covering them 
with its golden flowers. 
17. Geniffahirfuta, or hirfute geniffa : fpines ternate, 
decuffated ; leaves fimple, lanceolate; fpikes termina¬ 
ting, liirfutc. This is a very tliorny rigid fhrub, with 
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round branches, leaflefs below, extremely hirfute at the 
top. Native of Old Caftile. 
Propagation and Culture. All thefe flirubs are propaga¬ 
ted by feeds, which, if fown in the autumn, will fuc. 
ceed much better than if fown in the fpring, and a year 
will be thereby faved ; as thefe plants fend out long, 
ffringy, tough, roots, which run deep into the ground, 
they do not bear tranfplanting well, efpecially if they, 
are not removed' young ; therefore the beff way is to fow 
a fevr feeds in thofe places where the plants are defigned 
to remain, and to pull up all except the moft promifing 
plants as foon as they are paft danger; after this tlje- 
plants will require no other culture, but to keep theiri 
clean from weeds : but where this cannot be pradtifed, 
the feeds may be fown thin upon a bed of light earth, 
and when the plants come up, they, muff be kept clean- 
from weeds till the following autumn, when the plants 
fliould be carefully taken up and tranfplanted where 
they are defigned to remain. Some of the forts arc very 
hardy, and will grow in almoff any foil or fituation ; 
but moff of them (i, 2, 3, 4, 6, g, ii, 14, 15, 17,) muft 
have a flieltered fituation and dry foil, to cany them 
through our winters. The firff, third, and fixteenth, 
require the protection of a green-houfe. The forts 
which do not produce feeds here may be increafed by 
layers. See Aspalathus, Crotal.'vr.ia, Hedysa- 
Ru.M, Indigofera, Sophora, and Spartium. 
GENIS'TA AFRICANA. See Aspalathus, Bor. 
BONiA, Liparia, Sophora, and Spartium. 
GENIS'TA SPARTIUM. See A.vthyllis, Ge¬ 
nista, Hedys.vrum, Psoralea, and Ulex. 
GENIS'TA SPINOSA. SccHedysarum aiidULEX. 
GENIS'T^E AFITNTS. See Psoralea. 
GENISTEL'LA. See Aspalathos and Genista, 
GEN'ITAL, (2;/;. Lat. ] Generative; ferv- 
ing to generation. 
GEN'ITAL, y. the organ of procreation. See Ana¬ 
tomy, vol. i. p. 618-621. 
GEN'ITALS,/. [genitalis, 'Lsit. from geno, ov gigno, 
to beget.] Parts belonging to generation.—Ham is con. 
ceived to be Jupiter, who was the youngeff fon who is 
faid to have cut off the genitals of his father. Brown. 
GENI'TE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Correze : eighteen miles welt of Brive. 
GE'NITES,/. among the Hebrews, thofe defeended 
from Abraham, without any mixture of foreign blood 
The Greeks dillinguilhed by the name of gemtes fuch of 
the Jews as were ifl'ued from parents, who, during the 
Babylonilh ca.ptivity, had not allied with an)* gentile 
family. 
GEN ITING,y. [A corruption oi Janeton, Frencli, 
fignifying Janeov Janet, having been fo called in honour 
ot fome lady of that name ; ;md the Scottifli dialedt calls 
them _7a?;fi-apples,, which is the fame with Janeton\. 
otherwife fuppofed to be corrupted from Juneting.') An 
early apple gathered in June.:—In July come early pears, 
and plumbs in fruit, genitings and codlins. Bacon. 
GEN'riIVE,y &■ adj. [genitivus, Lat.J In gram¬ 
mar, the name of a cafe, which, among other relations, 
fignifies one begotten, as, the father oj'a fon ; or one be¬ 
getting, as, fon y a father .—See the article Grammar. 
GE'NIUS,y. [Latin ; Fr.] The protecting o-r 
ruling power of men, places, or things : 
The genius and the mortal inftruments 
Are then in council.; and the Bate of man. 
Like to a little kingdom, fuffers then. Shahefpeare. 
And as I awake, fweet mufic breathe, 
Sent by fonie fpiritto mortals good,. 
Or th’ unieen genius of the wood. Milton.^ 
A man endowed with fuperior faculties.—There is no 
little writer of Pindaric who is not mentioned as a pro¬ 
digious Addifon. —Mental power or faculties : 
The Bate and order does proclaim. 
The genius of tliat royal dame. Waller. 
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