. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . FABACEAE. Vol. II. I. Genista tinctoria L. Dyeweed or Greenweed. Woad-waxen. Base Broom. Fig. 2466. Genista tinctoria L. Sp. PI. 710. 175J. Branching from the base, not thorny, the sterile shoots de- cumbent, the flowering ones erect, stiff, l°-2° high, branched above, slightly pubescent. Leaves l-foliolate, sessile, lanceo- late or elliptic-lanceolate, i'-iV long, glabrous
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . FABACEAE. Vol. II. I. Genista tinctoria L. Dyeweed or Greenweed. Woad-waxen. Base Broom. Fig. 2466. Genista tinctoria L. Sp. PI. 710. 175J. Branching from the base, not thorny, the sterile shoots de- cumbent, the flowering ones erect, stiff, l°-2° high, branched above, slightly pubescent. Leaves l-foliolate, sessile, lanceo- late or elliptic-lanceolate, i'-iV long, glabrous or with scat- tered hairs, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, entire, shining; stipules none; racemes numerous, terminal, i'-2' long, few-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute; flowers yellow, nearly sessile, about 6" long; calyx bracteolate at the base, its 3 lower teeth narrower than the 2 upper; pod about i' long, flat, glabrous. On dry hills. Maine and Massachusetts to eastern New York. green from Europe. Nat Known also as wood-wax weed, dyer's-whin and all( ve also of northern Asia. Sum- green-wood, dyer's-broom. dyer's 9. CYTISUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 739. I7S3- Shrubs, often stiflf or spiny, with 3-foliolate or i-foliolate leaves, and showy clustered flowers, mainly in terminal racemes. Calyx 2-Iipped, campanulate, the teeth short; standard ovate or orbicular; wings oblong or obovate; keel straight or curved. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers alternately larger and smaller. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled; style incurved. Pod fiat, oblong or linear, pubescent or glabrous, several-seeded; seeds strophiolate. [From Cythrus, one of the Cycladcs, where the first species was found.] About 45 species, natives of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa, the flowers very slightly different from those of Genista. Type species; Cylisus hirsiitiis L. I. Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link. Broom. Green or Scotch Broom. Hagweed. Fig. 2467. Spartium scoparium L. Sp. PI. 709. 1753. Cyli
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