. 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 . 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 . 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 typical.
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