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Ulex.] 
14. Arthrolobium. Flowers umbellate, without braeteas. Keel small, 
obtuse. Legume terete, scarcely contracted at the joints. 
15. Hippocrepis. Flowers umbellate. Keel acuminate. Legume 
straight on one side, much contracted on the other at the joints. 
1G. Onobrychis. Flowers racemose. Legume of a’ single 1-seeded joint. 
V. Stamens diadelphous. Leaves pinnate or apparently simple, usually 
with tendrils. Legume 2 -valued, several-seeded, the suture not intro- 
flexed. Vicie.e. 
17. Vicia. Style filiform or angular, equally hairy all round below the 
point, or mostly so on the under side. 
18. Latiiyrus. Style flattened below the stigma, pubescent only on the 
upper side. 
Tribe I. GenistetE. Legume 1- celled . Stamens mostly mona- 
delphous. Leaves simple or trifoliolate , rarely pinnate. Stems 
generally shrubby. (Gen. 1 — 5.) 
1. U'i.ex Linn. Furze. 
Cal. 2-partite, with a small scale or bractea on each side at 
the base ; segments nearly entire or upper one 2-toothed, lower 
3-toothed. Standard bifid, scarcely longer than the cal. Keel 
erect, blunt. Legume turgid, few-seeded, scarcely longer than 
the calyx. — Leaves simple. — Name from the Celtic uile, all; 
and also, according to Theis, from ec or ac, a sharp point; 
whence, too, arises the French name ajonc or acjonc , a sharp or 
spiny rush. 
1. U. Europce'us L. ( common F., Whin or Gorse) ; calyx 
somewhat hirsute with slightly spreading hairs the teeth nearly 
obsolete, braeteas large ovate lax, wings manifestly longer than 
the keel and imbricated over it. — a. vulgaris , much branched and 
spreading, spines usually rigid. E. B. t. 742. — fi. strictus, 
branches upright, compact, spines soft. U. strictus Mackuy. 
Heathy places, especially in sandy or gravelly soils ; rare in the 
Scottish Highlands. fj- 2 — 7. — Shrub 3 — 4 or more feet high, with 
innumerable green striate branches, clothed with acute branching 
spines, and having at their base a few leaves which are lanceolate, a 
little hairy, very minute. Cal. coarsely pubescent. Cor. bright 
yellow ; wings straight incurved. Legumes opening elastically, and 
shedding their seeds the same year they come to maturity. Var. j8. 
was discovered in Lord Londonderry’s park, county of Down, by 
Mr. J. White ; it is readily propagated by cuttings, and now well 
known in our gardens and nurseries under the name of Irish Furze. 
It bears few flowers, hut may be at all times distinguished from 
the var. a. by its smaller size, its dense and compact, rather formal 
mode of growth and its very upright branches, which are so soft and 
succulent that sheep and cattle are extremely fond of them. 
2. U. 7i aims Forst. (dwarf F.); calyx with the pubescence 
