212 DIADELPH. DECAND. 



branches rounded striated erect, flowers racemose, legumes 

 glabrous. Lightf. p. 384. E. B. t. 44. 



Hab. Gravelly hills and sides of rivers in the Lowlands^ frequent. 

 Lightf. Fl. July. V, . 



One foot to two feet high. Leaves rather distant, small, edges some- 

 times a little downy. Flowers rather small, pale yellow, almost ses- 

 sile, a small floral leaf or hractea at its base. — Dyes yarn of a yel- 

 low colour. 



** Branches spiuose. 



8. G. anglica {Needle Furze), leaves ovato-lanceolate glabrous, 

 snines simple none on the flowering branches, flowers axil- 

 lary subracemose, legumes glabrous. Light/, p. 384. E. B, 

 t. 132. 



Hab. Heathy and moorish grounds, not unfrequent ; as 1 mile above 

 Dunkeld, Lightf. Pentland hills and hills near Kelso j common in 

 Ross-shire, Maugh. Rare about Glasg.; moors on the Cathkin 

 hills, Hopk. Campsie hills j and moors, Perthshire, Mr. Murray. 

 CuUodenj near Alary, Kinross-shire 5 Ochil hills, and N. of For- 

 far, Mr. Arnott. Fl. June, fj . 



Stems reclined, very thorny. Leaves very small. Flowers yellow. 



4. ULEX. 



1. U. eitropcem {common Furze, Whins or Gorse), cal. teeth 

 obsolete connivent, bracteas ovate lax, branchlets erect. 

 Lightf. p. 385. E. B. /. 742. 



Hab. Heathy places in the Lowlands ; rare in the Highlands. Fl. 



throughout the summer, but most abundantly in May. Tj . 

 Sh7-uhoi'3 — 4 feet in height, with innumerable green striated branches, 



cloth.cd with acute branching spines, with a few leaves at their base 



of a lanceolate form and a little hairy, veiy minute. Cal. pubescent. 



Cor. bright yellow. 



2. \]. nanus [Dwarf Furze), ^^ teeth of the cal. lanceolate spread- 

 ing, bracteas minute close-pressed, branches reclining," Sm. 

 Lightf p.3So {U. europ. |3.). £. B. t. 743. 



Hab. Dalgnise, Mr. D. Stewart. Pentland Hills, G^ Don. Fl. mostly 

 in autumn. Tj . 



Smaller than the last in all its parts. "The fowers afford certain 

 specific characters : — the bracteas are very minute, brown, c!ose- 

 pressed to the coY., often hardly visible. The cal. is more silky 

 and yellow 3 its teeth deeply cut, spreading, and very evident : a cir- 

 cumstance which will always prevent its being confounded with the 

 other species." -Sm. Are these marks constant ? A very acute bo- 

 tanical friend has suggested to me that probably all the marks in 

 Ulex nanus are caused by U. europcsus having been repeatedly cut 

 down for fuel : the shoots are then more prostrate for a time and 

 smaller. 



5. ONONIS. 



1. O. arvensis {Rest-harrow), stem hairy, branches at length 



