Ulex 



LEGUMINOS-^ 



13 



Furze, Gorse, Whin. 



Naturalized in the Blue Mts. ; Macfadyen ; Morris ! Catherine's Peak, 

 4000 ft., Eggers ! — This species is found not only in western Europe, where 

 it is considered truly native, but also in N. America, Mexico, Chili, Canary 

 Is., Nilgiri Mts., India, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, in which 

 countries it is looked upon as an introduction.] 



§ 2. Herbs. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets denticulate. 

 Flowers in heads axillary. Stamens 10, uppermost usually 

 free, the rest united into a sheath. Pod small, enclosed 

 in the withered calyx and corolla, not opening. 



2. TRIFOLIUM L. 



Species 300, numerous in temperate and subtropical regions of the 

 rtorthern hemisphere, a few in the mountains of tropical America, in 

 temperate S. America, and in Africa. 



Flowers white in large heads T. repens. 



[Flowers yellow in small heads T. dubium.] 



T. repens L. Sp. PL 767 (1753); stem creeping; flowers 

 white (sometimes pinkish) in large heads. — Mac/. Jam. i. 243 ; 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 181. (Fig. 2.) Type in Herb. Linn. 



A, Portion of plant X 



B, Flower X 2. 



Fig. 2. — Tri/olium reiieiu L. 



C, Pod enveloped in the persistent calyx 



and corolla X 2. 



D, Pod with one valve removed X 2. 



Dutch or White Clover. I 



Common in mountains, Macfadyen ; Cold Spring, J.P. 1223, Morris I 

 Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock. — Continental America, Europe, Asia. 



Perennial, glabrous. Lcrt/fe^s roundish-obovate, 1-1-5 cm. 1. Peduncle 



