288 DTADELPHIA DECANDRIA. [CL. XVII. 



and June : grows in thickets, and dry pastures : common. Eng. 

 Sot. vol. xix. pi. 1339. Spartium scoparium. Eng.Fl. vol. iii. p. 261. 



1027. 



2. G. tinctoria. Dyer's Green-weed. Woad-waxen. Leaves lance- 

 shaped, smooth ; branches round, striated, erect ; legumes smooth, 



nearly cylindrical. A small shrub, with numerous straight 



branches : flowers on short and axillar stalks, crowded about the 

 tops of the branches : petals pale-yellow. A good yellow colour 

 is obtained from the whole plant. Flowers in July and August : 

 grows in thickets and pastures : frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 44. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 263. 1028. 



3. G. piUsa. Hairy Green-weed. Leaves lance-shaped, broader 

 towards the end, hairy beneath ; stem tuberculated, prostrate ; calyx 



and flower -stalks covered with silky hairs. A small shrub, with 



much branched stems, lying flat: flowers axillar and solitary, 

 crowded about the top of the branches : petals bright-yellow: legume 

 oblong, hairy. Flowers in May, and again in September : grows on 

 dry elevated heaths and pastures, in the south of England and in 

 Wales : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. iii. pi. 208. Eng.Fl. vol. iii. p. 263. 



1029. 

 ** Branches thorny. 



4. G. A'nglica. Needle Green-weed. Petty Whin. Leaves egg- 

 shaped, smooth ; thorns simple, none on the flowering branches. 

 A small shrub, with ascending stems, about a foot long : flowers 

 solitary, small, pale-yellow, the standard deeper. Flowers in May 

 and June : grows on heathy grounds : not uncommon. Eng. Bot, 

 vol. ii. pi. 132. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 264. 1030, 



4. U'LEX. FURZE. 



Calyx inferior, of two egg-shaped, concave, equal, coloured, 

 permanent leaves ; the upper with two small teeth, the lower with 

 three. Corolla of five petals ; standard egg-shaped, cleft, ascend- 

 ing ; wings oblong, obtuse ; keel of two straight, obtuse petals, 

 cohering at their lower edges. Filaments ten, all united at the 

 base, one of them separate for more than half its length ; anthers- 

 roundish, two-lobed. Germen oblong, nearly cylindrical, hairy. 

 Style awl-shaped, curved upwards ; stigma small, obtuse. Le- 

 gume oblong, turgid, straight, little longer than the calyx, one- 

 celled, two-valved ; the valves concave, hard, and elastic. Seeds 

 polished, roundish. Name doubtful. 849. 



1. U. Europce'us. Common Furze, Whin, or Gorse. Teeth of the 

 calyx minute, close together ; bracteas egg-shaped, loose ; branches 



erect. A very bushy shrub, from two to five feet high, beset 



with thorns : leaves small, av/1-shaped, thorn-tipped : flowers soli- 

 tary or in pairs, bright-yellow : two minute egg-shaped spreading 

 bracteas at the base of the calyx. "When often cut or burnt, the 

 young shoots are usually soft and succulent, and are eaten by cattle. 

 Flowers in May, occasionally at all seasons : grows in drv pastures 

 and heaths : common. Eng. Bot. vol. xi. pi. 742. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. 

 p. 265. 1031. 



2. U.ndnus. Dwarf Furze. Teeth of the calyx spreading ; brac- 

 teas minute, close-pressed ; branches reclining. Half the size of the 

 last in all its parts, and apparently nothing but a slight variety of 

 it. Flowers in autumn : grows on dry elevated heaths and pastures : 

 frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. xi. pi. 743. Eng.Fl. vol. iii. p. 226. 1032. 



