Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . room. Small evergreenbush, with crowded, hard, stiff, prickle-pointed, leaf-likebranches (cladodes), on the flat surfaces of which theflowers are borne in the axils of minute scarious shoots cylindric, hard, dark greyish green, groovedand ridged, the ridges puberulent; springing from theaxils of flattened brown scales, with thin linear insertionsextending about £ of the way round the shoot. Cladodes2—5 cm. (2—3 cm. x 8—12 mm.), ovate-lanceolate to ellip-tic-ovate, acuminate, pungent, hard, rigid, entire, twis
Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . room. Small evergreenbush, with crowded, hard, stiff, prickle-pointed, leaf-likebranches (cladodes), on the flat surfaces of which theflowers are borne in the axils of minute scarious shoots cylindric, hard, dark greyish green, groovedand ridged, the ridges puberulent; springing from theaxils of flattened brown scales, with thin linear insertionsextending about £ of the way round the shoot. Cladodes2—5 cm. (2—3 cm. x 8—12 mm.), ovate-lanceolate to ellip-tic-ovate, acuminate, pungent, hard, rigid, entire, twistedon the narrow sub-sessile bases; dark green, glabrous andshining on both surfaces, each subtended by a minutesubulate scarious scale (the true leaf). Venation of three principal veins, slightly prominent 298 GORSE, ETC. below, the central simulating a midrib, the two lateralsarching from below and converging towards the when dying. tt Plant apparently leafless, both leaves andshoots being converted into sharp spinesand thorns. Evergreen, Fig. 115. Gorse, Ulex europeeus, p. 298 (E & P). Ulex europeeus, L. Gorse (Fig. 115). Small densely-spiny bush. Leaves reduced to scales, 5—10 mm. long, orconverted into sharp subulate persistent spines, bearing GORSE: SPURGE LAUREL, ETC. 299 branched thorns in their axils, all greyish green, pube-scent, and very sharp and rigid. Spines 3—6 cm. long. Ulex nanus, L., the Dwarf Furze, is smaller, withmore slender and crowded thorns, about 1—3 cm. [It should be noted that the above only applies togrown-up plants: the seedlings have true compound tri-foliolate, hairy and stipulate leaves, proper to the group ofLeguminosse to which the genus Ulex belongs. See p, the spines (branches) of older plants bear afew minute unifoliolate leaves.] ** Shoots entirely devoid of spines or thorns. [The narrow leaves of the conifers may be somewhatsharp-pointed (pungent), but they are not converted intotrue spin
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