212 DIADELPH. JQEC AND. 



branches rounded striated erect, flowers racemose, legumes 

 glabrous. Lightf. p. 384. E. B. t. 44. 



HAB. Gravelly hills and sides of rivers in the Lowlands,, frequent, 

 Lightf. Fl. July. Tj . 



One foot to two feet high. Leaves rather distant, small, edges some- 

 times a little downy. Flowers rather small, pale yellow, almost ses- 

 sile, a small floral leaf or bractea at its base. Dyes yarn of a yel- 

 low colour. 



** Branches spinose. 



3. G. anglica (Needle Furze), leaves ovato-lanceolate glabrous, 

 spines simple none on the flowering branches, flowers axil- 

 lary subracemose, legumes glabrous. Lightf. p. 384. E. B. 

 t. 132. 



HAB. Heathy and moorish grounds, not unfrequent ; as 1 mile above 

 Dunkeld, Lightf. Pentland hills and hills near Kelso; common in 

 Ross-shire, Maugh. Rare about Glasg. ; moors on the Cathkin 

 hills, Hopk. Campsie hills $ and moors, Perthshire, Mr. Murray. 

 Culloden; near Alary, Kinross-shire 5 Ochil hills, and N. of For - 

 far, Mr. Arnott. Fl. June. ^ - 



Stems reclined, very thorny. Leaves very small, flowers yellow. 



4. ULEX. 



1. U. europceus (common Furze, Whins or Gorse), cal. teeth 

 obsolete connivent, bracteas ovate lax, branchlets erect. 

 Lightf. p. 385. E. B. t. 742. 



HAB. Heathy places in the Lowlands j rare in the Highlands. Fl. 



throughout the summer, but most abundantly in May. ^ . 

 Shrub of 3 4 feet in height, with innumerable green striated branches, 



clothed with acute branching spines, with a few leaves at their base 



of a lanceolate form and a little hairy, very minute. Cal. pubescent. 



Cor. bright yellow. 



2. U.nanus (Dwarf Furze), " teeth of the cal. lanceolate spread- 

 ing, bracteas minute close-pressed, branches reclining," Sm. 

 Lightf. p. 385 (17. ewop. /3.). E. B. t. 743. 



HAB. Dalguise, Mr. D. Stewart. Pentland Hills, G. Don. Fl. mostly 

 in autumn. T$ . 



Smaller than the last in all its parts. "The flowers afford certain 

 specific characters : the bracteas are very minute, brown, close- 

 pressed to the cal., often hardly visible. The cal. is more silky 

 and yellow j its teeth deeply cut, spreading, and very evident : a cir- 

 cumstance which will always prevent its being confounded with the 

 other species." Sm. Are these marks constant ? A very acute bo- 

 tanical friend has suggested to me that probably all the marks in 

 Ulex nanus are caused by U. europceus having been repeatedly cut 

 down for fuel : the shoots are then more prostrate for a time and 

 smaller. 



5. ONONIS. 



1. O. ar'vensis (Rest-harrow), stem hairy, branches at length 



