2988.
ULEX europseus, (3. strictus.
Irish Gorse.
MONADELPHIA Decandria.
Gen. Char. Calyx of two parts ; the upper with
two, the lower with three minute teeth ; a bract
at each side at the base. Pod thick, few-seeded,
scarcely longer than the calyx, which nearly
equals the corolla.
Spec. Char. Young leaves shaggy beneath, furrowed.
Primary spines strong, terete-polygonal, furrowed,
rough. Stem hairy. Flowers lateral.
Bracts ovate, lax. Calyx shaggy. Wings of
corolla longer than the keel.— Var. (3. Primary
spines small, slender, tetragonal. Branches
upright.
Syn. Ulex strictus. Mackay in Trans. R. Irish Acad,
v. 14. 166. Lindl. Syn. Br. FI. ed. 2. 322. Bab.
in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1. v. 5. 301. Walp. Repert.
v. 1. 627. Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 11.
212; Bot. Gaz. v. 1. 288.
U. hibernicus, G. Don, Syst. Gard. and Bot. v. 2.
148.
A l t h o u g h this plant has been proved by experimental
sowing to be only a sport of the TJ. europceus, it is so different
in appearance from that plant, and has attracted so much
attention by its extreme variation from the type of the
species, that we have thought a figure of it will be acceptable
to botanists. It was first noticed in the Marquis of London