Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Cyclops/284

Annotations
a chara   (Irish) friend. This is the vocative case of the noun cara.

the mountain gorse (Ulex Europeus)   (Latin) Ulex europaeus is the scientific name for the evergreen shrub variously known in Ireland as the whin, furze or gorse. The leaves are spiny but green, while the flowers are yellow. When they wilt, however, the leaves turn tawny orange in the words of John Betjeman in Cornish Cliffs. In his essay Of Usury, Francis Bacon describes the yellow headgear worn by Jewish moneylenders as orange-tawny. Gorse is found throughout Ireland.

When identifying a species through its scientific name, it is now modern usage to capitalize the genus (Ulex) but not the species (europaeus).