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mile in length as a hedge. The double-flowered and the fastigiate varieties are 

 propagated by cuttings : the latter, when wanted for agricultural purposes, 

 may be bedded in, like box, in a sandy soil rather moist, in the beginning of 

 September; and by the following spring they will be fit to transplant. 



2. U. (E.) NA X NA Forst. 



The dwarf Furze. 



2. p. 144 ; Don's Mill. 



Identification. Smith Eng. Fl., 3. p. 266. ; Eng. Bot., t. 743. ; Dec. Prod 



2. p. 148. ; Webb Iter Hispan., 48. 

 Synonymes. U. minor Both Cat. 1. p. 83. ; U. europas N us /S Lin. Spec. 1045. 

 Engravings, Eng. Bot., t. 743. ; and our figs. 301. and 302. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Branches and leaves smooth, the latter linear. Calyx gla- 

 brous, 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, brae- 

 teas. An evergreen, jompact, low, spiny shrub. Britain and the western 

 parts of France, on poor gravelly soils. Height 2 3 ft. Flowers rich yel- 

 low ; August to December. Pods brown ; ripe in December. 



A very distinct sort, though, 

 from the very different and more 

 luxuriant habit which the plant 

 has when cultivated in gardens 

 on rich soils, we have no doubt of 

 its being only a variety of U. eu- 

 ropa^a. In its native habitats, it 

 is easily distinguished from that 

 species by its low growth, seldom 

 exceeding 2ft. 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. Very neat low hedges and edgings may be 

 formed of it. 



. 3. U. (E.) PROVINCIA'LIS Lois. The Provence Furze. 



Identification. Lois. Not., 105. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 144. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 148.; 



Webb Iter Hispan., 48. 

 Synonyme. ETlex australis Clement. 

 Engravings. Lois. Not., t. 6. f. 2. ; and our fig. 303. 



Spec. Char., $c. Calyx rather pubescent, with lanceolate distant 

 teeth. An erect, evergreen, compact shrub; intermediate, in 

 all its parts and in its habit, between U. europae^a and U. 

 nana. Provence, Andegavany, and Mauritania. Height 2 ft. 

 to 4 ft. Introduced in 1820. Flowers rich yellow ; August 

 to December. Pod brown ; ripe in December. 



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. 303. U. proTincialis. 



*t 4. U. (E.) STRI'CTA Mackay. The upright-growing, or Irish, Furze. 



Identification. Mackay's List of Irish Plants ; Hook. Brit. Fl.,p. 317. 

 Synonymes. U. hibernica Don's Mill. 2. p. 148. ; U. fastigiata Hort. 

 Engraving. Our fig. . in p. 



Spec. Char., S/-c. Habit erect, narrow, and compact. Spines few or none ; 

 and what there are, weak, branched, leafy, and pubescent. An erect, com- 

 pact, evergreen shrub. Ireland. Height 6ft. to 10ft. Introduced in 

 1815. Flowers yellow, rarely produced ; August to December. Pod 

 brown ; ripe in December. 



Discovered in the Marquess of Londonderry's Park, in the county of 



