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and has more slender spines and deeper orange-yellow 

 flowers. 



Fig. 115. Ulex. a h, U. europceus : a, flower (a = bracteole, p= calyx); 

 &, fruit (7 = corolla, 5 = pod); c c 2 , standard, wing, and keel; d, pistil in 

 longitudinal section, and magnified stigma ; e, andrcecium opened out ; 

 /, seed; g, longitudinal and transverse sections of seed; h, branch; 

 i k, U. nanus : i i 2 = c c 2 ; t 3 , bracteole; Jc, branch; Z, U. pa i rviflorus t 

 branch; m, U. wehvitschianus, branch. (After Schneider.) 



