. Annals of natural history. Natural history; Plants. Mr. C. C. Babington on Ulex. 303 The flowers are produced upon the primary spines only, the points of which extend beyond them; the bracteas are minute and closely adpressed to the calyx, which is finely downy; the form of the petals also is different from that found in the two preceding species, as will be seen by the figures. Leaves linear-lanceolate, in a young state glabrous, ciliated and fur- rowed. U. Equally common with U. europceus, var. a. is the more fre- quent in the eastern counties and var. ft. in the western parts of E
. Annals of natural history. Natural history; Plants. Mr. C. C. Babington on Ulex. 303 The flowers are produced upon the primary spines only, the points of which extend beyond them; the bracteas are minute and closely adpressed to the calyx, which is finely downy; the form of the petals also is different from that found in the two preceding species, as will be seen by the figures. Leaves linear-lanceolate, in a young state glabrous, ciliated and fur- rowed. U. Equally common with U. europceus, var. a. is the more fre- quent in the eastern counties and var. ft. in the western parts of England. Flowering from Aug. to Dec. * 4. U. australis, (" Clemente, Ensayo de la Vid. p. 291. (1807)" Webb, Iter. Hisp. 48.) Calyce sericeo corollse subsequali, bracteis mi- nutis, foliis minutis glabris, spinis primariis parvis tetragonis sulcatis laevibus, caulibus glabris. U. australis, Clem. I. c. Webb, I. c. U. provincialis, Lois. Not. 105. (1810) Fl. Gall. (ed. 2.) 2. 111. t. 27. DC. Prod. 2. 144. Remarkably different from the other species; glabrous throughout, with the exception of the peduncles and calyx, which are finely downy. The spines are small, tetragonal, furrowed, and smooth, alternately branched, but the lowest branch (secondary spine) distant from the stem; the branches again branched (tertiary spines), and bearing the flowers upon the secondary or tertiary spines. The flowers much smaller than in either of the other species, and differing remarkably * Not found within thirty miles of Edinburgh.—W. H. 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 London, R. and J. E. Taylor
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