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DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Ulex 
the ground. Mr. Woodward. Retween Dolgelly and Llyn-Arran, at the 
foot of Cader Idris, about half a mile from the pool. Mr. Griffith. (Be¬ 
tween Zennar and Mawgan, Cornwall. Rev. J. Pike Jones. On the very 
western point of St David’s Head, Pembrokeshire, in considerable quan¬ 
tity. Mr. Milne, Bot. Guide. E.) S. May—June. 
G. Angelica. Thorns both simple and compound: leaves egg-spear¬ 
shaped: (flowering branches destitute of thorns. E.) 
Dicks . H. S. — E. JBot. 132 — FI. Dan. 619 — Dod. 760 — Lob. Obs. 535. 2, and 
Ic. ii. 93. 2 —Ger. Em. 1320. 4 — Park. 1004. 4 — Ger. 1140. 5 — Lonic. i. 
39. 1. 
(Stems much branched, about a foot high, reclining, furnished with acute 
spines. E.) The old branches tough, without leaves, beset with thorns ; 
thorns very sharp, slender, a quarter to half an inch long ; the shoots of 
the year fasciculated at the end of the old ones, but sparingly from the 
sides, with numerous leaves intermixed with soft thorns. Leaves some¬ 
times oval, smooth, entire, small, bright green. Flowers pale, yellow, 
small, few. Woodw. Calyx yellow. Summit a small knob. Seed-vessel 
turgid, with from three to fourteen seeds. (The leafy branches of 
the present year become next season woody, awl-shaped thorns. Sm. 
E.) 
Needle Furze. Petty Whin. Needle Green-weed. (Welsh: 
Cracheithinen ; Eithinen yr idr. E.) Heaths and moist spongy ground. 
Bungay Common. Mr. Woodward. Heaths, west of Bishop’s Aukland. 
Mr. Robson. (On Newcastle Town Moor, at Gateshead Fell. Mr.Winch. 
Coleshill Heath, Warwickshire. Bree, in Purton. Goonhilly Downs, 
Cornwall. Guide. In a large enclosure above the wood leading to Con- 
ham Ferry, Brislington, near Bristol. Mr. Frederick Russell. In Anglesey. 
Welsh Bot. Pentland Hills. Maughan. Grev. Edin. E.) New Forest, 
near Stony Cross. Broadmoor, near Birmingham. S. May—June. 
U'LEX. Calyx two-leaved : Legumen scarcely longer than the 
calyx. 
U. Europas'us. Calyx shorter than the blossom, with two spear- 
shaped deciduous scales at the base: (smaller branches erect. E.) 
(E. Bot. 742. E.)— FI. Dan. 608—Clus. i. 106. 2— Dod. 759. 1— Ger. Em. 
1319. 1— Park. 1004. 1— J. B. i. b. 400. 2. 
( Stems several feet high, very numerous, furrowed, hairy, and extremely 
thorny, branches. Spines angular, pungent, smooth. Leaves springing 
from the base of the spines, solitary, awl-shaped, roughish, deciduous. 
Calyx sometimes woolly, but not equally so in all plants; its teeth con¬ 
verging. E.) Blossom yellow, large, (half as long again as the calyx, 
emitting a smell like honey. E.) Besides the pair of scales at the top of 
the fruit-stalk close to the calyx, there is a single scale at its base, on 
the outer side. 
Common Furze, (so called chiefly in the south of England ; Whin in the 
east; and Gorse in the north, E.) Heaths, road sides, and pastures, 
but does not flourish in very poor soil. Extremely luxuriant in Cornwall, 
growing to the height of six or eight feet. P. May—Aug.* 
* Gorse is in some respects a very hardy plant, and will make fences upon the bleaker 
mountains, and close to the sea side, where the spray of the sea kills almost every other 
