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Dyer's Green-Weed. Woad-Waxen. New England Whin

Genista tinctoria. Pulse Family.

A shrubby plant from one to two feet high. Leaves.--Lance-shaped. Flowers.--Papilionaceous; yellow; growing in spiked racemes. This is another foreigner which has established itself in Eastern New York and Massachusetts, where it covers the barren hill-sides with its yellow flowers in early summer. It is a common English plant, formerly valued for the yellow dye which it yielded. It is an undesirable intruder in pasture-lands, as it gives a bitter taste to the milk of cows which feed upon it.