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not extending beyond the flowers. See Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 300. 
— Heaths. Sh. II. — VI. Spring Furze, Whin, Gorse. 
2. U. striiius (Mack.) ; cal. shaggy, bracts ovate lax, young I. 
shaggy beneath thin, primary spines small slender tetragonal mi- 
nutely scabrous, st. hairy, fl. terminal. — Plant 1—2 feet high, 
with upright branches. Fl. rarely produced : in all the specimens 
that I have seen they are terminal, springing from the summit of 
the stem, not from the spines, which branch as in U. europams 
but are peculiarly small. The pet. slightly different in form from 
the last. Distinguished from both the other species by its pecu- 
liar habit. Mr. Cameron of the Birmingham Bot. Gard. has 
sown the seeds of this plant and obtained only plants exactly 
like the parent. (Phyt. i. 76.) — In Lord Londonderry's park, 
Down, Ireland. Sh. IV. I. 
3. U. nanus (Forst.) ; cal. finely downy, bracts very minute 
adpressed, young /. glabrous ciliated furrowed, primary spines 
slender terete striated smooth, st. hairy, fl. lateral and terminal. 
— E. B. 743. — St. procumbent. Primary spines short, slender, 
spreading, branched at their base only. Fl. half the size of those 
of U. europaus, springing from the primary spines and not ex- 
tending beyond them. — /3. major (Bab.) ; st. erect or ascending 
3 — 6 feet high, primary spines long strong deflexed. — Heaths. 
Sh. VIII.— XI. Autumnal Furze. 
2. Sarothamnus Wimm. 
1. S. scoparius (Wimm.). The only species. — E. B. 1339. 
Spartium L., Cytisus Link. — St. 2 — 3 feet high, angular, glabrous. 
L. ternate or simple, leaflets obovate. Fl. axillary, solitary or 
in pairs, shortly stalked, large, bright yellow. Pods dark brown, 
hairy at the edges, with numerous seeds. In Cytisus the style is 
subulate and stigma oblique ; in Spartium the style is subulate 
and the stigma oblong and attached longitudinally below the 
apex of the style. — Dry hills and heaths. Sh. V. VI. Broom. 
3. Genista Linn. 
1. G. pilosa (L.) ; st. procumbent without thorns, 1. obovate- 
lanceolate obtuse, stipules ovate blunt, branches peduncles calyx 
standard keel and underside of the 1. silky, peduncles lateral ac- 
companied by a tuft of leaves, pods hairy. — E. B. 208. — Fl. small, 
yellow, collected towards the extremity of the branches. St. 
much branched, furrowed, woody. — Dry sandy and gravelly 
heaths, rare. Sh. V. E. 
2. G. tinctoria (L.) ; st. depressed with erect branches without 
thorns, 1. lanceolate or elliptical hairy at the edges, stipules mi- 
nute subulate, ft. racemose, cor. and pods glabrous. — E. B. 44. — 
Branches erect, 1 — 2 feet high, elevato-striate, glabrous, downy 
