158 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



soils ; and the young flower-buds, gathered in the spring, 

 are often used as a pickle, and as a substitute for capers. 

 Mr NEILL. 



215. GENISTA. 



1. G. tinctoria, stems depressed, with round, striated, erect, 

 thornless branches ; leaves lanceolate, smooth ; flowers yellow, 

 nearly sessile. Dyer's Greenweed. 



Hab. Gravelly banks. Haiden dean. July, Aug. h 



The whole plant affords the dyer a good yellow colour, and 

 with woad a good green. 



216. ULEX. 



1. U. europauS) teeth of the calyx obsolete, converging ; brae- 

 teas ovate, lax ; branches erect. Whin or Gorse. 

 Hab. Moors, &c. common. May. ?j 



" Rough 



With prickly Gorse, that, shapeless and deformed, 

 And dangerous to the touch, has yet its bloom, 

 And decks itself with ornaments of gold." 

 ....... " there the turf 



Smells fresh, and, rich in odoriferous herbs 

 And fungous fruits of earth, regales the sense 

 With luxury of unexpected sweets." 



Will make fences upon the bleaker mountains, and close to 

 the sea-side, where the spray of the sea kills almost 

 every other shrub. In Cornwall, where fuel is scarce, it 

 is cultivated to advantage, and is generally cut to make 

 faggots for heating ovens, which it does very soon, burn- 

 ing rapidly, and with a great degree of heat. In Ireland, 

 when hay is dear, the lower order of country people 

 sometimes make a livelihood by selling chopped whins to 

 the inhabitants of towns, for their cattle, by the bushel. 

 u I have," says Dr RICHARDSON, " great experience of 

 this food, being obliged to recur to it every third or 

 fourth year, during the twenty-six I have been a farmer ; 

 it is strong and nutritive ; considered by many as the best 

 substitute for oats, when that more nourishing food can- 

 not be procured." See Pamphleteer, vol. viii. p. 178, and 

 EVELYN'S Sylva, p. 410 The Irish Whin, Mr NEILL 

 informs me, is much softer than ours, and a different spe- 

 cies, U* stricta. 



