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Stem woody, 2 to 3 feet high, with the hranches more fasciculate 

 and the spines sliorter than in U. europseus, the primary spines 

 heinj^ from ^ to 1^^ inch long- and with secondary spines only at 

 the base, which gives the hranches more of the appearance of a 

 ])ottle-hrush with the naked part of the primary spines projecting. 

 The flowers have a more regularly spicate or capitate arrangement, 

 they are also smaller than those of U. europseus, about ^ inch long, 

 Avith the yellow inclining to orange, the calyx less pubescent, the 

 wings shorter ; the pod is also shorter, and the season of flowering 

 is different ; but the most tangible character lies in the very small 

 adpressed bracts. Branches and edges of the leaves and base of 

 the spines with shaggy brown hairs. 



JPlanchon's Furze. 



French, Ajonc de LegaU. 



Sob-Species II. — Ulex eu-nanus. 



Plate CCCXXV. 



U. nanus, Planch. 1. c. Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. Vol. II. p. 140. Brebisson, 



Fl. de la Normandie, ed. iii. p. 72. 

 U. nanus, var. a, Auct. Plur. 



Branches procumbent, drooping. Primary spines weak, short, 

 slightly furrowed. Wings shorter than the keel, straight. 



On heaths, downs, and commons. Plentiful in the South of 

 England ; but as the preceding sub-species has only recently been 

 separated, it is difficult to give the exact distribution. I have 

 seen it growing in Kent, Surrey, Essex, and Hants. The so-called 

 U. nanus from the South-west of Scotland is probably U. Gallii. 



England, Scotland?, Ireland?. Shrub. Autumn. 



Very like TJ. Gallii, but smaller and more procumbent, with the 

 spines much shorter, ^ to ^ inch long, but, as in that plant, branched 

 only at the base, and the branches have still more of the bottle- 

 brush appearance. The flowers are smaller, ?nd paler yellow. 



Dioarf Furze. 

 French, Ajonc Nain. 



GENTJS II.— G E N I S T A. lAnn. 



Calyx herbaceous or sub-herbaceous, bell-shaped, divided half- 

 way down or more mto 2 lips, the upper lip bipartite, the lower 

 3-toothed or 3-cleft. Corolla much longer than the calyx ; standard 

 oblong-oval, erect (not spreading), shorter than or equal to the 



