242 CALYCIFLOR.*:. 



Island. No plant, however, can be more generally diffused. 

 The C. Brownei, of Bertero, is the plant before us. 



6. Crotalaria incana. Hoary Rattle-wort. 



Stipules and bracteas setaceous villous deciduous, 

 leaves 3-foliate, leaflets elliptic or obovate villous be- 

 neath, racemes opposite to a leaf spiked, calyces some- 

 what glabrous, keel tomentose at the margin, legumes 

 sessile pendulous hirsute. 



Crotalaria trifolia fruticosa, foliis rotundis incanis, floribus e 

 viridi luteis, fructu pubescente, Sloa7ie, II. 34. t. 179. f. 1. — 

 C. incana, Linii. Spec. 1005. — Jacg. Obs. IV. t. 82. — Cav. Ic. 

 IV. t. 222.—Swartz, Obs. 278. 



HAB. A common weed. 



FL. Autumn. 



Suffruticose, erect, 2-4 feet in height : branches few, sub- 

 terete, striated, incano-villous. Leaflets, the terminal one 

 the largest, elliptic or obovate, rounded and apiculato-mucro- 

 nate at the apex, subglabrous above, slightly villous along the 

 nerves beneath. Stipules capillari-setaceous : stipels O* R^*" 

 ceme opposite to a leaf, 5-flowered : common peduncle terete, 

 incano-villous : pedicels short : bracteoles setaceous, deciduous, 

 situated below the calyx : flowers greenish yellow. Calyx sub- 

 glabrous ; segments lanceolate. Keel of the corolla with the edge 

 albido-tomentose. Filaments monadelphous, with the sheath 

 slit open above. Ovary oblong, densely incano-villous : style 

 geniculated with a sharp bend near its origin from the 

 ovary, with the under surface pubescent as it approaches the 

 stigma : stigma subcapitate and farinoso-puberulous. Legume 

 an inch and a half in , length, beaked with the persistent genicu- 

 lated portion of the style : seeds numerous, subreniform, com- 

 pressed, of a yellowish clay-colour, shining. 



IV. Ulex. 



Calyx bibracteolated ; upper lip 2-, lower 3-toothed. 

 Stamens monadelphous. Legume turgid, scarcely 

 longer than the calyx. 



1. Ulex Europaeus. Cmmnon Furze. 



Erect, leaves and branchlets somewhat villous, 

 teeth of the calyx connivent, bracteas ovate loose. 



Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 1A2.—De Cand. Fl. Fr. IV. 492. 

 HAB. High mountains. Very common in the neighbour- 

 hood of St Catherine's Peak. 

 FL. Throughout the year. 



