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seeded crescent-shaped joints, so that each pod has many 

 notches on one side, 



18. Onobbychis. Cal. with 5 nearly equal subulate teeth. 

 Keel obliquely truncate, longer than the wings. Pod 

 1-ceUed, compressed, indehiscent, 1-seeded, upper suture 

 straight, lower curved toothed winged or crested. 



Tribe I. Lotew. 

 1. TJ'iiEX Linn. Fxuze. Whin, Gorse. 



1. U. europcehis (L.) ; young 1. shaggy beneath furrowed, pri- 

 mary spines strong terete-polygonal furrowed rough, st. hairy, 

 fl. lateral, hracts ovate 'lax, cal. shaggy, wings longer than keel. 

 — S. B. 742. — St. shrubby, 4 — 6 feet high, very much branched, 

 spreading. Fl. bright yellow, springing feom both the primary 

 and secondary spines. Spines branching at their base and up 

 to about their middle, not exceeding the flowers. — U. strictus 

 (Mack.) ; primary spines small slender tetragonal, plant 1 — 2 ft. 

 high, with upright branches. It does not come true from seed. 

 E. B. 8. 2988.— Heaths. Sh. II.— VI. E. S. I. 



2. TI. nanus (Forst.) ; young I. glabrous ciliate furrowed, pri- 

 mary spines slender terete striate smooth, st. hairy, fl. lateral and 

 terminal, bracts very minicte adpressed, cal. finely downy, wings 

 shorter than keel. — E. B. 743. — St. shrubby procumbent. Pri- 

 mary spines short, spreading, branched at their base only. Fl. 

 half the size of those of Z7. europ(sus, springing from the primary 

 spines and exceeded by them, pale; pet. scarcely separated 

 when fuU-blown. Pod persistent for nearly a year. — ^Heaths. 



Sh. vni. IX. E. 



3. U. Gallii (Planch.) ; young 1. glabrous ciliate furrowed, 

 primary spines strong deflexed subterete striate smooth, st. 

 hairy, fl. lateral and terminal, bracts very minute adpressed, cal. 



finely downy, mngs longer than keel. — E. B. 8. 2987. — St. 2 — 

 5 ft. high. Fl. orange, pet. more or less divaricate ; wings not 

 Bti'aight and thus often seeming shorter than keel. Pods burst- 

 ing in spring. A dwarf form is often taken for U. nanus, a tall 

 one for U. europcsus. — Heaths. Sh. VHI. — XI. E. I. 



2. Genis'ta Linn. 



1. G. pildsa (L.) ; st. procumbent without thorns, 1. obovate- 

 lanceolate blunt, stipules ovate blunt, branches peduncles calyx 

 standard keel and imderside of the 1. silky, peduncles lateral ac- 

 companied by a tuff of leaves, pods hairy.— E. B. 208.— Fl. 



