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FURZE. — ULEX. — GORSE OR WHIN. 



Natural order, Papilionacea or Leguminosce. 

 A genus of the Diadelphia Decandria class. 



" The common, overgrown with fern, and rough 

 With prickly gorse, that shapeless and deform'd, 

 And dangerous to the touch, has yet its bloom, 

 And decks itself with ornaments of gold, 

 Yields no unpleasing ramble : there the turf 

 Smells fresh, and rich in odoriferous herbs." 



Cowper. 



This British beauty too rarely occupies a 

 spot in the English shrubbery, where its 

 yellow flowers would shine as conspicuous in 

 the dreary month of November, and scarcely 

 less ornamental than the gay laburnum of 

 May and June ; and which it as greatly excels 

 in perfume, as in the duration of its flowering, 

 which is generally from the end of March, 

 until the end of December; and even the 

 remaining months, are not without some 

 sprinkling of these papilionaceous flowers; 

 and from which the rustics remark, that love 



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