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G E N I S T A anglica.
Needle Furze.
JD IA D E L P H IA Decandria.
Ge n . Char. Calyx two-lipped, with two teeth in the
upper lip, and three in the lower. Standard oblong,
bent backwards from the reft of the flower.
Spec. Char. Spines Ample, not found on the flowerbearing
branches. Leaves ovato-lanceolate.
Svn. Genifta anglica. Linn. Sp. PL 999. HudJ. FI.
An. 3 1 1 . With. Bot. Arr. 759. Relh. Cant. 269.
G. minor Afpalathoides, five Genifta fpinofa Anglica,
Rail Syn. 475.
CiOMMON on moift boggy heaths, flowering in May and
June. It has the long, woody, branched, and creeping roots o f
moft of its tribe; from which arife feveral bufhy, alternately
branched Items a foot high, fet with fcattered {harp fpines,
which the firfi. year are leafy, as are alfo the flowering branches
that fpring out among them. Leaves oval, pointed, entire, a
little revolute in the margin, fomewhat glaucous, fmooth.
Flowers from a few of the uppermoft axillae, folitary, on fhort
footftalks, of an elegant bright yellow; the keel is remarkably
lo n g ; the wings and ftandard turn green in drying. Pods
oval, turgid, fmooth, containing 10 or 12 feeds.
This fpecies is fuppofed to be almoft peculiar to Britain,
though found alfo in Denmark (FI. Dan. 619). We beg leave
to think Fuchfius’s figure 220, quoted by Dr. Stokes, was rather
intended for G. germanica, as its compound fpines jand its ha-*
bit evince,