2987.
ULEX Gallii.
Le Gall’s Gorse.
MONADELPHIA Decandria.
Gen. Char. Calyx of two parts ; the upper with
two, the lower with three minute teeth ; a bract
on each side at the base. Pod thick, few-seeded,
scarcely longer than the calyx, which nearly
equals the corolla.
Spec. Char. Young leaves glabrous, ciliate, furrowed.
Primary spines strong, deflexed, sub-
terete, striate, smooth. Stem hairy. Flowers
lateral and terminal. Bracts very minute, ad-
pressed. Calyx finely silky. Wings of corolla
exceeding the keel, subfalcate.
Syn. Ulex Gallii. Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3.
v. 11. 213. t. 9 ; in Bot. Gaz. v. 1. 288. Webb
in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 17. 288. Le Jolis in
Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherb. v. 1. Lloyd, FI. de
I’Ouest. de la Fr. 106. Bor. FI. du Centre de la
Fr. ed. 3. 140. Lees, Bot. Malv. ed. 2. 66.
Delalande, Hcedic et Houat, 110. Le Gall, FI.
Morbihan, 815.
U. provincialis. Le Gall, FI. Morbihan, 128.
U. nanus, |3. major. Bab. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1.
v. 5. 302.
U. nanus, j3. Gallii. Bab. Man. ed. 5. 73.
T h i s plant has been almost universally recognized as a
distinct species by the botanists of western Europe, but until