. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Ulex europaeus L. Furze. Gorse. Wh Prictcly or Tliorn Broom. Fig. 2465. Ulex europaeus L. Sp. PI. 741 r53. Much branched, bushy. 2°-6° high, more or less pubescent. Branchlets very leafy, tipped with spines; leaves prickly, 2"-7" long, or the lowest sometimes lanceolate and foliaceous ; flowers borne on twigs of the preceding season, solitary in the axils, 6
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Ulex europaeus L. Furze. Gorse. Wh Prictcly or Tliorn Broom. Fig. 2465. Ulex europaeus L. Sp. PI. 741 r53. Much branched, bushy. 2°-6° high, more or less pubescent. Branchlets very leafy, tipped with spines; leaves prickly, 2"-7" long, or the lowest sometimes lanceolate and foliaceous ; flowers borne on twigs of the preceding season, solitary in the axils, 6"-8" long, the twigs appearing like racemes; pedicels very short, bracted at the base; calyx a little shorter than the petals, minutely 2-bracteo- late; pod few-seeded, compressed, scarcely longer than the calyx. In waste places, eastern Massachusetts to south- ern New York and eastern Virginia, escaped from cultivation. Also on Vancouver Island. Fugitive from Europe. Ulim. May-July. 8. GENISTA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 709. 1753. Low branching sometimes thorny shrubs, mainly with i-foliolate leaves, and showy clus- tered yellow flowers. Calyx 2-lipped; teeth long. Standard oval or ovate; wings oblong; keel oblong, deflexed, the claws of its petals adnate to the uncleft sheath of the monadelphous stamens; anthers alternately long and short Ovary sessile, several-ovuled; style incurved at the apex. Pod various, flat in our species, several-seeded. Seeds not strophiolate. [Celtic, gen, a small bush.] About 80 species, natives of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia, the following Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York : Scribner
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