24 A FLORA OF GIBRALTAR AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 



quite white. It is very abundant. III. i. Cork Woods ! ii. 

 Mountains ! Carnero Hills ! Palmones Playazo ! iii. Guada- 

 corte ! Palmones, Lag^ma. 



C. linif alius Lamk. Bushy slopes and woods ; locally common; 

 3-6. I.! III. i. Corkwoods! ii. Mountains! Carnero Point! 



C. triflonis L'Herit. Woods ; locally frequent ; 1-4. Flowers 

 pendulous, rather pale greenish yellow, on long virgate branches. 

 I. Clus., Tournef. Not there now, I think. III. i. Cork Woods ! 

 ii. Mountains ! Carnero Point I 



Calycotovie villosa Link. (" Spartium villosum L.," Kel.). Dry 

 hills and bushy slopes ; abundant ; 12-5. I. ! III. ! 



Genista scorpioides Spach. Kough bushy places ; rare ? 3-5. 

 Very near next, but bracts at base of pedicels ovate, not subulate, 

 spines stouter and longer. III. ii. S. de Palma, Bev. 



G. triacanthos Brot. Similar places ; locally frequent ; 3-8. 

 A rigid dark green bush, flowers usually in short subtruncate 

 racemes. III. i. Queen of Spain's Chair ! Cork Woods ! ii. 

 Palmones Pinar ! Mountains ! 



Var. galioides Spach has stouter spines, longer leaves (3-4 

 lines), and denser racemes. III. ii. Hills above Algeciras, Ball. 

 S. de Luna, Laguna. 



|G. Winkleri Lge. Bushy hills; rare; 3-5. Like next, but 

 leaves mostly trifoliolate, not simple, and bracts 3-4 times as long 

 as, instead of little longer than pedicels. III. i. San Eoque, 

 Winkl. 



G. gihraltarica DC. Similar places ; locallj' common ; 4-7. 

 Flowers usually in long tapering racemes. [I. Included by 

 Kelaart in error (see K. Fl. p. 93).] III. i. Queen of Spain's 

 Chair ! Cork Wood Crags ! Between Almoraima and Long 

 Stables ! ii. Mountains ! 



\G. Scorpius DC? Kocky hills and ravines; rare; 2-7. A 

 stout-spined shrub with the aspect of a Cahjcotome. Pods much 

 longer than last. Can Laguna have mistaken C. villosa for it ? 

 I. West slopes, Laguna. 



j:G. Hmnseleri Boiss. Bushy hills; rare; 5. Very distinct, 

 with a look of Spartium junceum, but flowers smaller. I. K. 

 III. i. South slopes of San Roque, D. 



Pterospartum lasianthum Wk. Heaths and rocky places on 

 mountains ; rare ? 12-6. Differs little from next, chiefly in more 

 woolly-tomentose, not silvery-silky calyx. Willkomm thinks they 

 should perhaps be united. III. i. S. Carbonera, D. Almoraima, 

 P. L. ii. Mountains, Webb, &c. S. de Luna, Laguna. S. de 

 Saladillo, P. L. 



P. tridentatum Wk. Similar places ; locally common ; 12-6. 

 III. i. Queen of Spain's Chair ! Cork Woods ! Pine Wood 

 Plains ! Alcadeza Crags 1 ii. Mountains ! M. de la Torre ! 



Ulex. ^StauracantJius has calyx as long as keel, lips shortly 

 united at base, upper divided to middle. ^Nepa has calyx about 

 half as long as keel, lips similarly united, upper quite shortly 

 bidentate. ^Eu-ulex has calyx lips quite free, as long as keel. 

 This section has the habit of U. europmus. 



