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The flowers are produced upon the primary spines only, the 

 points of which extend beyond them ; the bracteas are minute 

 and closely adpressed to the calyx, which is finely downy; the 

 form of the petals also is different from that found in the two 

 preceding species, as will be seen by the figures. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, in a young state glabrous, ciliated and fur- 

 rowed. 



U. nanus. 



Equally common with U. europceus, var. a. is the more fre- 

 quent in the eastern counties and var. ft. in the western parts 

 of England. Flowering from Aug. to Dec. * 



4. U. australis, (" Clemente, Ensayo de la Vid. p. 291 . (1807)" Webb, 

 Iter. Hisp. 48.) Calyce sericeo corollse subsequali, bracteis mi- 

 nutis, foliis minutis glabris, spinis primariis parvis tetragonis 

 sulcatis laevibus, caulibus glabris. 



U. australis, Clem. I. c. Webb, I. c. 



U. provincialis, Lois. Not. 105. (1810) Fl. Gall. (ed. 2.) 2. 111. 

 t. 27. DC. Prod. 2. 144. 



Remarkably different from the other species; glabrous 

 throughout, with the exception of the peduncles and calyx, 

 which are finely downy. The spines are small, tetragonal, 

 furrowed, and smooth, alternately branched, but the lowest 

 branch (secondary spine) distant from the stem ; the branches 

 again branched (tertiary spines), and bearing the flowers upon 

 the secondary or tertiary spines. The flowers much smaller 

 than in either of the other species, and differing remarkably 

 * Not found within thirty miles of Edinburgh. — W. H. C. 



