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CALYCl FLORAE. 
Island. No plant, however, can be more generally diffused. 
The C. Brownei, of Bertero, is the plant before us. 
6. Crotalaria incana. Hoary Rattle-wort. 
Stipules and bracteas setaceous villous deciduous, 
leaves 3-foliate, leaflets elliptic or obovate villous be- 
neath, racemes opposite to a leaf spiked, calyces some- 
what glabrous, keel tomentose at the margin, legumes 
sessile pendulous hirsute. 
Crotalaria trifolia fruticosa, foliis rotundis ineanis, floribus e 
viridi luteis, fructu pubescente, Sloane, II. 34. t. 179. f. 1. — 
C. incana, Linn. Spec. 1005 Jacq. Obs. IV. t. S 2. — Cav. Ic. 
IV. t. 322. — Swartz, Obs. 278. 
HAB. A common weed. 
FL. Autumn. 
Suff'ruticose, erect, 2-4 feet in height : branches few, sub- 
terete, striated, incano-villous. Leaflets, the terminal one 
the largest, elliptic or obovate, l-ounded and apiculato-mucro- 
nate at the apex, subglabrous above, slightly villous along the 
nerves beneath. Stipules capillari-setaceous : stipels O* Ra- 
ceme opposite to a leaf, 5-flowered : common peduncle terete, 
incano-villous : pedicels short : bx-acteoles setaceous, deciduous, 
situated below the calyx : flowers greenish yellow. Calyx sub- 
glabrous ; segments lanceolate. Keel of the corolla with the edge 
albido-tomentose. Filaments monadelphous, with the sheath 
slit open above. Ovary oblong, densely incano-villous : style 
geniculated with a sharp bend near its origin from the 
ovary, with the under surface pubescent as it approaches the 
stigma : stigma subcapitate and farinoso-puberulous. Legume 
an inch and a half in length, beaked with the peisistent genicu- 
lated portion of the style : seeds numerous, subi'eniform, com- 
pi’essed, of a yellowish clay-coloui-, shining. 
IV. Ulex. 
Calyx bibracteolated ; upper lip 2-, lower 3-toothed. 
Stamens monadelphous. Legume turgid, scarcely 
longer than the calyx. 
1. Ulex Europaeus. Common Furze. 
Erect, leaves and branchlets somewhat villous, 
teeth of the calyx connivent, bracteas ovate loose. 
Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 742. — De Cand. El. Fr. IV. 492. 
HAB. High mountains. Very common in the neighbour- 
hood of St Catherine’s Peak. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
