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GENISTA , in See also:botany, a genus of about eighty See also:species of shrubs belonging to the natural See also:order See also:Leguminosae, and natives of See also:Europe, western See also:Asia and See also:North See also:Africa . Three are native in See also:Britain . G. anglica is the See also:needle-See also:furze or See also:petty whin; found on heaths and moist See also:moors, a spinous plant with. slender spreading branches to 2 ft. See also:long, very small leaves and See also:short racemes of small yellow papilionaceous See also:flowers . The See also:pollen is emitted in a shower when an See also:insect alights on it . G. tinctoria, See also:dyer's See also:green-See also:weed, the flowers of which yield a yellow dye, has no spines . Other species are grown on See also:rock-See also:work or as green-See also:house See also:plants . |
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