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Often, when leaves are lacking in the adult plant, being replaced by flattened stalks as in the case of the acacias, or by thorns, or green stems and twigs as in the prickly broom or Ulex europaeus, the first leaves of the young plant may be more highly differentiated, being pinnate in the first case and bearing three leaflets in the second instance.
LYCOPODIUM complanatum. CLUB-MOSS. The juice of this plant extracted by an acid forms a most beautiful yellow. LYCOPUS europaeus. WATER-HOREHOUND. The juice of this gives out a black colour, and is sometimes used by the common people for dyeing woollen cloth. The gypsies are said to use the juice of this plant to colour their faces with. LYSIMACHIA vulgaris.
A numerous variety of heaths are brought from the Cape of Good Hope, and afford great pleasure to the amateur of exotic plants, being the greatest ornaments to our green-houses. EUONYMUS europaeus. SPINDLE-TREE. An ornamental shrub. The wood is in great request for making skewers for butchers, as it does not impart any unpleasant taste to the meat. FAGUS Castanea.
It is frequently worn in the head-dress of ladies. SWERTIA perennis. MARSH SWERTIA. This is a beautiful little plant, and worth the attention of all persons who are fond of flowers that will grow in boggy land. It is a perennial, and of easy culture. TROLLIUS europaeus.
Charles Taylor to procure seeds from thence, which the Society did me the honour of committing to my care; and I have now a considerable stock of that kind, from whence I have myself obtained the same beautiful and superior tint. See Trans. Soc. Arts. vol. 27, p. 40. ULEX europaeus.
The newer series are made up of sands and a conglomerate called "sansino." In the same upper strata are found, according to M. Gaudin, the leaves and cones of Glyptostrobus europaeus, a plant closely allied to G. heterophyllus, now inhabiting the north of China and Japan.
If, in passing under one of the Egdon banks, any of its thick skeins were caught, as they sometimes were, by a prickly tuft of the large Ulex Europaeus which will act as a sort of hairbrush she would go back a few steps, and pass against it a second time.
The nearest living Proteaceae now feel the in Abyssinia in latitude 20 degrees N., but the greatest number are confined to the Cape and Australia. All geologists agree that the distribution of the Cretaceous land and sea had scarcely any connection with the present geography of the globe. Glyptostrobus Europaeus.
The various species and varieties of Lime succeed well in almost any class of soil, but rich loam on sand is considered the most suitable for their perfect development. ULEX EUROPAEUS. Furze, Gorse, or Whin. This pretty native shrub needs no description, suffice it to say that it is one of the handsomest-flowering shrubs in cultivation. U. NANUS. -Dwarf Gorse, Cat Whin, and Tam Furze.
Query, Has not the custom of hanging up Misselto at merry-makings, and the ceremony so well known among our belles, some relation to above sacrifice? ULEX europaeus. COMMON FURZE. The culture of this shrub is given in the Agricultural Plants, being good for feeding cattle; its principal use however is for fuel, and it is frequently grown for such purposes. It is common on most of our waste lands.
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