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and has more slender spines and deeper orange-yellow 

 flowers. 



Fig. 11-5. Ulex. a — h, U, europfcus : a, flower (a = bracteole, /S = calyx); 

 h, fruit (7 = corolla, 5 = pod): c — c-, standard, wing, and keel; d, pistil in 

 longitudinal section, and niagnitied stigma ; e, androecium opened out ; 

 /, seed; g, longitudinal and transverse sections of seed; /), branch; 

 i — 1-, U. nanus: i — i'- = c — c-; «*, bracteole; k, branch; /, U. panijlorus, 

 branch; ?«, U. wehcit^chianug, hiAuch. (After Schneider.) 



