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of the name. A variety, distinguished from the typical 

 plant by its smaller size, upright growth, and soft and 

 succulent stems, is sometimes met with ; it is ordinarily 

 called Irish furze, as it was first observed in County Down. 

 In our second volume may be found the description 

 and illustration of the rest-harrow, a plant having con- 

 siderably larger leaves than the furze, and a rich array 

 of pink blossoms. As these blossoms, however, though 

 pink, are of the same size as those of the furze, and of the 

 same papilionaceous or pea-flower type, while the plant has 

 spine-guarded stems, the rest-harrow is sometimes called 

 the petty-whin. The bilberry, too, from its growing on 

 the open moorland and common, the characteristic home 

 of the golden-blossomed furze, is sometimes locally known 

 as the whin-berry. 



