CHAP. XLI. LEGUMINA CEZ. U‘LEX. 575 
w 2. U.(e.) na‘nNa Forst. The dwarf Furze. 
Beech Smith Eng. F'l., 3. p.266.; Engl. Bot., t.743.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 144; Don’s Mill. 
suey U. minor Roth Cat., 1. p. 83.; U. europe‘us 6 Lin. Spec., 1045. 
Engravings. Engl. Bot., t. 743. ; and our fig. 264. to ascale of 2in. to a foot, and fig. 265. of the 
natural size, 
Spec. Char., &c. Branches and 
leaves smooth, the latter linear. 
Calyx glabrous, with spreading 
narrow teeth. According to 
Smith, the essential character 
consists in the more distinct 
and spreading calyx teeth, and 
the more minute, rounded, 
close-pressed, and often hardly 
discernible, bracteas. A low 
spiny shrub, a native of Bri- 

Abundant in Surrey, on the Portsmouth Road; found in Dumfriesshire, 
and on the Pentland Hills, in Scotland; and also in Ireland. This is 
a very distinct sort, though, from the very different and more luxu- 
riant habit which the plant has when cultivated in gardens on rich 
soils, we have no doubt of its being only a variety of U. europz‘a. In its 
native habitats, it is easily distinguished from that species by its low growth, 
seldom exceeding 2 ft. in height; by its being much smaller in all its parts ; 
by its decumbent habit ; and by its flowering from the end of August till 
the beginning of December, and seldom at any other season. This sort, 
H. C. Watson observes, generally grows at a greater elevation by 200 ft., 
in North Wales, than the common sort. (Outlines, §c., p.124). The only 
use of this plant in cultivation is to produce variety in ornamental plan- 
tations. A double-flowered variety of it, would be a desirable acquisition. 
Very neat low hedges and edgings may be formed of it. 
# 3. U. (£.) provincia‘tis Lois. The Provence Furze. 
Identification. Lois. Not., 105. t. 6. f.2.; Dec. Fl. Frane. Suppl., No.3799.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 144. ; 
Don’s Mill., 2. p. 148. 
Engraving. Lois. Not., 105. t. 6. f. 2. 
Spec. Char., §c. Calyx rather pubescent, with lanceolate distant teeth. 
Shrub erect; intermediate, in all its parts and in its habit, between U. euro- 
pea and U. nana. A native of Provence, Andegavany, and Mauritania; 
where it grows to the height of from 2 ft. to 4ft. Whatever doubts there 
may be as to U. nana being a distinct species, there can be none as to 
this sort being only a variety. As an evergreen shrub, flowering freely, it 
well deserves a place in collections. 
a 4. U.srri’cta Mackay. The upright-growing, or Irish, Furze. 
Identification. Mackay’s List of Irish Plants ; Hook. Brit. Fl., p. 317. 
Synonymes. U,hibérnica Don’s Mill.,2. p. 148.; U. fastigiata Hort. 
Spec. Char., §c. Habit erect, narrow, and compact. Spines few or none; 
and what there are weak, branched, leafy, and pubescent. A native of 
Ireland, where it was discoveredin the Marquess of Londonderry’s Park, in 
the County of Down, in 1815, or before. It is very upright in its growth, 
and attains the height, in good soils, of from 6 ft. to 10 ft. in as many years. 
Its branches are so soft and succulent, that sheep and cattle eat them 
without injuring their mouths, and are very fond of them. It forms excel- 
lent garden hedges, and, in rather moist climates, is a most excellent forage 
plant, as has been already stated under U. europz‘a. It very rarely 
flowers, and has never produced seeds; but it is easily propagated by cut- 
tings. Sir W. J. Hooker doubts whether it should be referred to U. europz‘a 
or U. nana, or be considered as a distinct species; he says (Encyc of Geog. 
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