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Stem woody, 2 to 3 feet high, with the branches more fasciculate 
and the spines shorter than in U. europzeus, the primary spines 
being from 4 to 1} inch long and with secondary spines only at 
the base, which gives the branches more of the appearance of a 
bottle-brush with the naked part of the primary spines projecting. 
The flowers have a more regularly spicate or capitate arrangement, 
they are also smaller than those of U. europzeus, about } inch long, 
with the yellow inclining to orange, the calyx less pubescent, the 
wings shorter; the pod is also shorter, and the season of flowering 
is different; but the most tangible character lies in the very small 
adpressed bracts. Branches and edges of the leaves and base of 
the spines with shaggy brown hairs. 
Planchon’s Furze. 
French, Ajone de Legall. 
a Sus-Species IJ.—Ulex eu-nanus. 
Prate CCCXXV. 
U. nanus, Planch. 1. c. Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. Vol. II. p. 140. Brebisson, 
Fl. de la Normandie, ed. iii. p. 72. 
U. nanus, var. a, Auct. Plur. 
Branches procumbent, drooping. Primary spines weak, short, 
slightly furrowed. Wings shorter than the keel, straight. 
On heaths, downs, and commons. Plentiful in the South of 
England; but as the preceding sub-species has only recently been 
separated, it is difficult to give the exact distribution. I have 
seen it growing in Kent, Surrey, Essex, and Hants. The so-called 
U. nanus from the South-west of Scotland is probably U. Galli. 
England, Scotland ?, Ireland?. Shrub. Autumn. 
Very like U. Gallii, but smaller and more procumbent, with the 
spines much shorter, + to 4 inch long, but, as in that plant, branched 
only at the base, and the branches have still more of the bottle- 
brush appearance. The flowers are smaller, and paler yellow. 
Dwarf Furze. 
French, Ajone Nain. 
GENUS IT—GENISTA. Linn. 
Calyx herbaceous or sub-herbaceous, bell-shaped, divided half- 
way down or more into 2 lips, the upper lip bipartite, the lower 
3-toothed or 3-cleft. Corolla much longer than the calyx ; standard 
oblong-oval, erect (not spreading), shorter than or equal to the 
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