288 DIADELPHIA DECAXDRIA. QcL. XVII. 



pastures : common. Eng. Bot vol. xix. pi. 1339. Spartium scoparium. 

 Eng. Fl. vol.iii. p. 261. 1027. 



2. G. tinctoria. Dyer's Green-weed. Woad-waxen. Leaves lance- 

 shaped, smooth ; branches round, striated, erect ; legumes smooth, nearly 



cylindrical. A small shrub, with numerous straight branches : flowers 



on short and axillar stalks, crowded about the tops of the branches: petals 

 pale-yellow. A good yellow colour is obtained from the whole plant. 

 Flowers in July and August : grows in thickets and pastures : frequent. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 44. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 263. 1028. 



3. G. pildsa. Hairy Green-weed. Leaves lance-shaped, broader to- 

 wards the end, hairy beneath ; stem tuberculated, prostrate ; calyx and 



flower-stalks covered with silky hairs. A small shrub, with much 



branched stems, lying flat : flowers axillar and solitary, crowded about 

 the top of the branches: petals bright-yellow: legume oblong, hairy. 

 Flowers in May, and again in September : grows on dry elevated heaths 

 and pastures, in the south of England and in Wales : rare. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. iii. pi. 208. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 263. 1029. 



** Branches thorny. 



4. G. A'nglica. Needle Green-weed. Petty Whin. Leaves egg-shaped, 



smooth; thorns simple, none on the flowering branches. A small 



shrub, with ascending stems, about a foot long: flowers solitary, small, 

 pale-yellow, the standard deeper. Flowers in May and June : grows on 

 heathy grounds: not uncommon. Eng. Bot. vol. ii. pi. 132. Eng. Fl. 

 vol. iii. p. 264. 1030. 



4. U'LEX. FURZE. 



Calyx inferior, of two egg-shaped, concave, equal, coloured, 

 permanent leaves; the upper with two small teeth, the lower with 

 three. Corolla of five petals ; standard egg-shaped, cleft, ascend- 

 ing; wings oblong, obtuse; keel of two straight, obtuse petals, 

 cohering at their lower edges. Filaments ten, all united at the 

 base, one of them separate for more than half its length ; anthers 

 roundish, two-lobed. Germen oblong, nearly cylindrical, hairy. 

 Style awl-shaped, curved upwards; stigma small, obtuse. Le- 

 gume oblong, turgid, straight, little longer than the calyx, one- 

 celled, two-valved ; the valves concave, hard and elastic. Seeds 

 polished, roundish. Name doubtful. 349. 



1. U. Europee'us. Common Furze, Whin, or Corse. Teeth of the calyx 



minute, close together ; bracteas egg-shaped, loose; branches erect. 



A very bushy shrub, from two to five feet high, beset with thorns : leaves 

 small, awl-shaped, thorn-tipped : flowers solitary or in pairs, bright- 

 yellow : two minute egg-shaped spreading bracteas at the base of the 

 calyx. When often cut or burnt, the young shoots are usually soft and 

 succulent, and are eaten by cattle. Flowers in May, occasionally at all 

 seasons : grows in dry pastures and heaths : common. Eng. Bot. vol. xi. 

 pi. 742. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 265. 1031. 



2. U. ndnus. Dwarf Furze. Teeth of the calyx spreading ; bracteas 



minute, close-pressed; branches reclining. Half the size of the last 



in all its parts, and apparently nothing but a slight variety of it. Flowers 

 in autumn : grows on dry elevated heaths and pastures : frequent. Eng. 

 Bot. vol. xi. pi. 743. Eng. Ft. vol. iii. p. 226. 1032. 



