304 Mr. C. C. Babington on Ulex. 



from them by having the wings shorter than the keel, whereas 

 in the other three they are longer than it. The bracteas are 

 small and adpressed, resembling those of U. nanus. The leaves 

 very minute, glabrous, and not furrowed. 



A native of the extreme south-west of Europe, not found in 

 the British Isles, which are probably too cold for it. Flower- 

 ing in winter. I am indebted to W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. for 

 my specimen, which he gathered near " Marseilles, Nov. 24, 

 1838," where he states that it grows upon dry limestone hiUs 

 in low rounded bushes, much smaller than U. europmis, but 

 quite as stiff or rather stifFer than it, in the spines. 



This plant has usually gone by the name of JJ. provincialis, 

 conferred upon it by Loiseleur in 1810, but as Mr. Webb (in 

 the work above-quoted) has determined it to be the same as 

 U. australis of Clemente, named in 1807, all botanists are 

 bound to adopt the latter as being the older as well as the bet- 

 ter name. 



U. australis. 



There yet remain two plants, both natives of Spain, which 

 probably belong to this genus, as observed by Mr. Webb (Iter 

 Hisp. 49.), who has characterized them in the interesting and 

 valuable work referred to, I mean U. genistoides of Brotero 

 and U. Boivini of Webb. These plants differ in several points 

 from the typical Ulices and form the genus Stauracanthus of 

 some authors. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, May 6, 1840. 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES. 



The letters refer to the same parts. 



a. The standard of the corolla. 



b. One of the wings of the corolla. 



c. One of the keel petals. 



d. A portion of the stem with a spine and its branches, and leaves. 

 X A leaf. 



The size of the flowers is not represented in the figures of the spines, but 

 only their situation. The outlines of the petals are drawn to scale, and point 

 out their difference of size as well as shape. 



