80 • LEGUMIXIFER/E. 



killed to the ground much of both this and Ulex Gallii, on Rohorough 

 Down. Polwhele observes, Avith reference to the entire county of Devon, 

 " The furze on all our connnons suffered very much by the severe winter 

 of 1794-95, nearly three-fourths being killed." Hist. Devonsh. i. 92. 



164. U. Gallii, Planch. Planchon^s Furze. 



Native ; on moors, commons, open or elevated hedge-banks, in 

 copses and waste bushy spots. Common. July to November, 

 c. I. Between Hessenford and the coast. Wacker Wood. Viverdon 

 Down. Quethiock side of Clapper Bridge. Cadsonbury. 

 II. Sea bank above Whitsand Bay. Penlee Point. Very sparingly 

 in a marsh by St. Johns Lake. Calstock. Kingston Down. 

 I). III. Keyham, sparingly; Banks, Fl. part 1. On a rocky cutting, 

 close to Weston j\Iills Creek, sparingly. Budshead Wood. 

 Between Knackersknowle and Tamerton Foliot. Beer Ferrers. 

 Morwell. Sampford Spiney. 

 lY. Fancy Wood; ^\Qk\eigh.\?i\Q', Banks, ihid. Derriford, Coleridge, 

 &c. ; Egg Buckland. Hemerdon Ball. Wigvor Down. Shaugh 

 Hill. Dartmoor. 

 V. Sparingly with U. europceus above the Yealm estuary at Wem- 

 bury ; also occurring near Mouthstone Pomt on the Pvevelstoke 

 side. Near Stretchley. CroAvnhill Down. 

 VI. Above the cliffs by the Erme estuary, and elsewhere above Big- 

 bury Bay. Moors near Ivybridge. 

 I believe all the 'dwarf furze' of the neighbourhood to belong to 

 the segregate species, V. Gallii. It is generally not discriminated from 

 U. euroiJceus here, the two making up the 'fuzz' of our countryfolk, 

 and together producing a succession of blossoms well-nigh through the 

 whole year. This has given occasion for a jocular saying, " Love ez out 

 o' vashun w'en fuzz ez out o' blozzum," which of course means never. 

 (See Bot. Gaz. 1, 283, note.) 

 First record : Banks, 1830. 



GENISTA. L. 



165. G. anglica, L. Needle Furze. 



Native ; in boggy ground. Very rare. May to July, or later, 

 c. I. Rather sparingly in a boggy spot on Viverdon Down, 1878, &c. 

 Very sparingly in a piece of rough, swampy ground in the 

 Notter Valley, between Clapper Bridge and Pillaton ]\Iill, 18()9. 



SAROTHAMNUS, Wimm. 



166. S. scoparius, A'oc/i. Common Broom; ^ Bazzam or Bizzom.* 



Native ; in copses, on dry bushy or rocky banks, and on the 

 borders of woods. Common. April, JNIay. 



