74 LEGUMINIFER^. 



V. Horsington Wood ; Lees. 

 VI. Highgate Wood, 1827-30; Farg^iwe. Colney Hatch!; iVewJ. Winch- 

 more Hill Wood. 

 VII. [Great plentie in a wood^ a mile from Islington towards Harnsey ; Ger. 

 1286.] [In St. John's Wood by Hornsey ; Fark. Theat. 240. In 

 a wood t against the boarded river ; Pet. Midd.] [Hornsey Wood ; 

 Miller, 25 ; and many subsequent authors.] 

 First record : Gerarde, 1597. Chiefly found on the clay. 



LEGUMINIFER^. 



ULEX, Linn. 



152. U. europseus, L. Furze. Gorse. Whin. 



Genista spinosa vidgaris (Johns.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 275 ; Comp. 137. Syme E. B. iil. t. 323. 



Heaths, roadsides, and railway banks; very common. Shrub. February — 

 June. 



Occurs in many places in all the districts. 

 VII. South Heath, Hampstead. 



First record: Johnson, 1632. 



X53. IT. nanus, Forst. 



Genista spinosa minor, FarJc. (Budd.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 277 ; iii. 404 ; Comp. 137. Syme E. B. iii. t. 325. 

 Heaths and roadsides ; rather rare. Shrub. July — September. 

 I. Lane near Pinner Hill, Mrs. Tooke ; Hind. Gravel-pits by the high 

 road opp. Hillingdon Place ; Warren. Harefield Common, abundant. 

 II. Hampton Common, 1808 ; Winch. MSS. Waste ground, Fulwell. 



III. Hounslow, Planchon; Bot. Gaz. i. 289. Hounslow Heath, 1820; 



Bennett {v. s.). Drilling ground, abundant. Roadside from drilling 

 ground to cemetery. 



IV. On Hampstead Heath, abundantly ; Budd. MSS. Ibid., 1809 ; Winch. 



MSS. 

 V. Wyke Green ; Masters. Old Oak Common ; Britten. 

 First record : Buddie, about 1710. Our plant is the restricted U. nanus 

 of Planchon ; U. Gallii, Planch., does not seem to occur. 



GENISTA, Linn. 



154. G. tinctoria, X. Dyer's Green-Weed. 

 Genistella tmct., Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 278; Comp. 137. Syme E. B. iii. t. 228. 



* Highbury Wood, which began to be destroyed in 1650 ; Cream Hall, in Highbury 

 Vale, was a farmhouse built on the site of the wood. 



t Little St. John's "Wood, only separated by a field from Highbury "Wood, abutted on 

 the New River. (See Tomlin's Islington, p. 198.) 



