teeth, the lower lip about the size of one of the divisions of the upper, 
somewhat depressed, with three very minute teeth. Flower bright 
yellow. Standard oblongo-subcordate, emarginate, with a very short 
claw. Wings obliquely linear-obovate, with narrow linear twisted 
strap-shaped claws. Keel ovate-oblong, straight, enveloping (at first) 
only the base of the staminiferous tube, but ultimately drooping, and 
almost entirely excluding it, its petals somewhat smaller and paler, but 
very like the wings. Stamens monadelphous, alternately long and 
short. Ovary somewhat compressed, hairy, containing about nine 
ovules. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. Dr. Lindley having 
kindly identified our plant with Genista bracteolata we can have no 
hesitation in assigning to it the name of that species. In the brief des¬ 
criptions of Decandolle’s Prodromus it is impossible to find characters 
sufficiently precise for separating species so closely allied as this and 
Genista candicans, and perhaps further enquiry may, after all, prove 
them to be identical. At least the figure in the Botanical Register, 
with its elongated racemes of scattered flowers, scarcely accords with 
our much more condensed and shorter ones, or even with one of 
Link’s specific characters,‘h’acemis brevibus”; neither can the leaflets 
of our plant be considered ^‘obtusissima. ” Such discrepancies in 
descriptions make it difficult for us to feel satisfied, when comparison 
with authentic specimens would probably leave us in no doubt. The 
species seems inclined to produce double flowers, at least we found 
some which had a double standard, and where the upper lip of the 
calyx was subdivided into three segments. J. S. Henslow. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. The plant was 
raised from seed, by R. Bevan, Esq., near Bury St. Edmunds, under 
the name of Cytisus Chrysobotrys, but he is not aware from whence 
the seed was obtained. The specimen figured in the Botanical 
Register was raised from seeds gathered by Mr. Webb at Teneriffe. 
It is probably of easy culture; and, flowering so early as the first week 
of March, is a great acquisition to the greenhouse. 
Derivation of the Names. 
Genista, from the Celtic word Gen, a small hush. Racemoses, full of 
clusters. 
Synonyme. 
Genista racemosa. Lindley, Bot. Reg. 1840, pi. 23. 
