ULEX 129 



•1. Ock. Near some old stone pits about half a mile south-west of 

 South Hinksey, Baxter MSS. 1812. (Now probably extinct.) 

 Didcot, Boswell. Tubney, Walker. On banks on the roadside on 

 Blewbury Downs, &c., Lousley in Rnsselfs Cat. 1839. Cumnor 

 Hurst. Richards. Between Bradley and Deadman's Farm, Tliur- 

 land. Cothill, 



3. Pang. On the border of Beech Wood, Hampstead Norris, and 



by roadsides in many places, J. Lousley, I.e. Bradfield, Jenkinson ! 

 Compton Scrubs, Hewett, 1840. Bucklebury Common, Tufnail. 



4. Kennet. Burghfield. Mortimer, Tufnail ! Shaw, Jackson. Wick- 



ham, Mrs. Batson. Woodhay. Clay hill N.E. of Newbury, 

 Weaver. Newbury Wash Common. By the railway near 

 Mortimer Station. Near Crookham Heath. 



5. Loddon. Near Wellington College, Penny ! Waltham. Maiden- 



head. Blackwater. Near Jouldern's Ford, between the river 

 and Finchampstead Leas, abundant but much injured by the 

 June frost in 1892. Winkfield. 

 G. iinctoria is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



ULEX, Linn. Gen. n. 786. 

 U. europaeus, Linn. Sp. PI. 741. Gorse, Furze, Whin. 



Top. Bot. 103. Syme, E. B. iii. 4, t. 323. Baxt. t. 93. Nyman, 148. 



Fl. Oxf. 72. * 



Native. Ericetal. Heaths and dry pastures. Widely distributed and 



locally common. Shrub. Jan.-April, and sometimes in the autumn. 

 First record. U. Euro2xieus. About Pusey and other parts of the 



county very luxuriant. Cut for faggots. Browsed by cattle. 



A good fence in bleak situations, Mavor in Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 The Furze is too common in Berkshire to require the mention of any 

 special localities. The severe winter of 1895 destroyed a large quantity 

 of plants, 



Ulex europaeus is common in all the bordering counties. 



U. Gallii, Planchon in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3™® ser. xi. (1849) 213. 



U. provincicdis, Le Gall (Fl. Morbihan,i28) ex Planch. 1. c. (1849). Not of 

 Loiseleur. U. nanus vnr. major, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 2, 72 (1847). 

 Top. Bot. 104. Syme, E. B. iii. 6, t. 324. Nyman, 148. Fl. Oxf. 73. 

 Native. Ericetal. Heaths and commons. Very local. Shrub. July-Oct. 

 First record. U. Gallii, Frilford. The author in Fl. Oxfordshire, 1886. 



2. Ock. Frilford Heath. 



3. Pang. Near Pangbourn. Near Curridge. 



The specimen recorded as U. GaUii by Mr. Britten in the Jour a. Bot. 

 (1873), 138, from Early Common, collected by Mr. Rudge about 1800, 

 is, I believe, TJ. minor (iuinus). 



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