XXV. LEGUMINA‘CEZ: U LEX. 201 
mile in length as a hedge. The double-flowered and the fastigiate varieties are 
propagated by cuttings: the latter, when wanted for agricultural purposes, 
may be bedded in, like box, in a sandy soil rather moist, in the beginning of 
September; and by the following spring they will be fit to transplant. 
» 2. U.(e.) Na‘na Forst. The dwarf Furze. 
Identification. Smith Eng. F1., 3. p. 266. ; Eng. Bot., t. 743. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 144. ; Don’s Mill. 
2. p. 148. ; Webb Iter Hispan., 48. 
Synonymes. U. minor Roth Cat. 1. p. 83.; U. europe‘us 8 Lin. Spec. 1045. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 743. ; and our figs. 301. and 302. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches and leaves smooth, the latter linear. Calyx gla- 
brous, with spreading narrow teeth. According to Smith, the essential 
character consists in the more distinct and spreading calyx teeth, and the 
more minute, rounded, close-pressed, and often hardly discernible, brac- 
teas. An evergreen, compact, low, spiny shrub. Britain and the western 
parts of France, on poor gravelly soils. Height 2—3 ft. Flowers rich yel- 
low; August to December. Pods brown ; ripe in December. 
A very distinct sort, though, 
from the very different and more 
luxuriant habit which the plant 
has when cultivated in gardens 
on rich soils, we have no doubt of 
its being only a variety of U. eu- 
ropz‘a. In its native habitats, it 
is easily distinguished from that 
species by its low growth, seldom 
exceeding 2 ft. in height; by its 
being much smaller in all its parts; 
by its decumbent habit ; and by its 
flowering from the end of August 
till the beginning of December, 
and seldom at any other season. Very neat low hedges and edgings may be 
formed of it. 
302. U. (e.) nana. 
301. U. (e.) nina, 
2 3. U. (z.) provincia‘iis Lois. The Provence Furze. 
Identification. Lois. Not., 105. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 144.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 148.5 
Webb Iter Hispan., 48. 
Synonyme. Ulex australis Clement. 
Engravings. Lois. Not., t. 6. f. 2.; and our fig. 303. 
Spee. Char., §c. Calyx rather pubescent, with lanceolate distant 7 
teeth. An erect, evergreen, compact shrub; intermediate, in 
all its parts and in its habit, between U. europz‘a and U. 
nana. Provence, Andegavany, and Mauritania. Height 2 ft. 
to 4ft. Introduced in 1820. Flowers rich yellow ; August 
to December. Pod brown; ripe in December. 
Whatever doubts there may be as to U. nana being a distinct 
species, there can be none as to this sort being only a variety. 
As an evergreen shrub, flowering freely ; it well deserves a place 
in collections, 303. U. provincialis 
esa 
a 4, U.(k.) stri’cta Mackay. The upright-growing, or Irish, Furze. 
Identification. Mackay’s List of Irish Plants ; Hook. Brit. Fl., p. 317. 
Synonymes. U. hibérnica Don’s Mill. 2, p. 148.; U. fastigidta Hort. 
Engraving. Our fig. .inp. . 
Spec. Char., &c. Habit erect, narrow, and compact. Spines few or none ; 
and what there are, weak, branched, leafy, and pubescent. An erect, com- 
pact, evergreen shrub. Ireland. Height 6 ft. to 10ft. Introduced in 
1815. Flowers yellow, rarely produced ; August to December. Pod 
brown ; ripe in December. 
Discovered in the Marquess of Londonderry’s Park, in the county of 
