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ULEX* genistoides. 



Portuguese Furze. 



DIADELPHIA, on MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat.ord. Leguminos.e Juss. § Papilionaceoo. {Introduction to the 

 natural sijstcr/i of Botany, p. 86.) 



ULEX.—Cahjx bibractcolatus, bipartitiis, lahio altcro tii-, altcro 2-clcn- 

 tato. Stamina oniiiia convexa. Lajiancu ovali-oM()n;j:um, inagis minusve 



compressuni, vix loiifriiis qiiam latum, ))hiri-ovulatiim, oli;;osperinuni. 



Frutices Enropcci rainosissit/ii, ramulis fbliisryMe sjiincscentilms, (loriljus soli- 

 turiis luteis, leguminibus villosis. — De Cand. prndr. 2. 144, caract. jjaul. 

 viutat. 



U. (jenistoidcs, erectus, ramulis rigidis decussatis, foliis squainiforniibus spi- 

 nesceutibus glabris, bracteis minutis appressis, calyce tomentoso, legu- 

 minibus compressis exsertis. 

 (J. genistoides. Brotcro fi. lusit. 2. p. 78. 



Stauracanthus apliyllus. " Link in Schrad. ncu. joiirn. 2. p. 1. p. 52." 

 Dc Cand. prodr. 2. 144. 



Frutex erectus, riyidus, spinescens, pallidc viridis, ramis decussatis, 

 glabris, v. pulicscentibus, pungentibus. Folia viinima, squamif ovinia, viu- 

 cronata. Flores axillares v. terminales, solitarii. Bractoai ininimce, sub- 

 rotunda, villoscE, inconspicuce. Calyx tomentosus, bivalvis, valvulis convexis: 

 superiore 3-, inferiore 2-dentato, dentibus valdc obscuris. Flores JIavi. Vexil- 

 lum et carina extiis tomentoscB. Alic angustce, patentissivicB, carincE cequales, 

 glabrcB. Stamina omnia conncxa, extra carinam asccndentia. Legumcn 

 oblongum, paulb longius qudvi latum, compressum, mucronatum, villosum, 

 calyce multh longius. 



According to Mr. Loudon's Hortu.s Britannicus, this was 

 introduced in 1823. The first time we were so fortunate 

 as to meet with it was in August last, when a specimen 

 was sent us by Mr. Young, of Godalming, from the Garden 

 of P. B. Webb, Esq., where it had been raised from seeds 

 collected in Portugal by that gentleman. 



* According to De Theis, the root of Ulex is the Celtic ec or ac, a point. 

 The French ajonc, formerly ac-jonc, is said to mean literally pointed-rush. 



