TREES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves few, alternate, l -foliate, exstipulate. 



A deciduous shrub, 6 12 ft.; Branches green, slender; young shoots 

 dark green, Hush-like. 



Native of Mediterranean and Canary Isles; introduced 1548. Generic 

 name used by Dioscorides, derived from Gr. spartos, a shrub growing in 

 Spain, used for making cords or ropes ; specific name from L. juncus, 

 a rush. 



FURZE or GORSE, Ulex europants. 



Heaths, commons, and sandy wastes. This showy spring shrub is useful 

 for covering sandy banks, and does well near the sea. It is propagated by 

 cuttings inserted in ordinary soil in a shady position outdoors in spring or 

 autumn, or in a cold frame in August; seeds sown in light soil outdoors 

 in April, best where plants are to remain. February, March; August, 

 September. 



Flowers yellow, odorous, entomophilous ; Inflorescence a raceme formed of 

 flowers solitary in the axils of spines on the preceding year's shoots; Calyx 

 gamosepalous, nearly as long as corolla, membranous, yellow, black spreading 

 hairs, deeply 2-lipped, upper lip with 2, lower lip 3, minute teeth, 2 lax 

 ovate bracts at base ; Corolla papilionaceous, f in. long, petals narrow, clawed, 

 standard ovate, wings and keel obtuse, wings longer than keel ; Stamens 10, 

 monadelphous, anthers alternately short and versatile, and long and basifixed ; 

 Ovary superior, included in staminal sheath, 1 carpel, 1-celled, style smooth, 

 stigma capitate ; Fruit a legume, oval-oblong, f in. long, turgid, black, 

 villous with brown hairs, few-seeded. 



Lower leaves sometimes 1 -foliate and lanceolate, but mostly reduced to 

 spines or small scales, exstipulate. 



A densely spinous shrub, 2-5 ft., sometimes up to 10 ft. ; Stem erect, 



downy, angular ; Branches spreading, ending in a stout thorn ; spines 



furrowed, rigid, 1-2 ins. long. 



Native of British Isles. 



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