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Ononis Rotundifolia. Round-Leaved 



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Clqfs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Charatler. 



Cat. 5-partitus : laciniis linearibus. Vexilhim ftriatum. Le* 

 gumen turgidum feflile. Filamenta connata abfque fiffura. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



ONONIS rotundifolia fruticofa, foliis ternatis ovatis dentatis, 

 calycibus triphyllo-bra&eatis, pedunculis fubtri- 

 floris. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 653. 

 Ait. Kezv. v. 3. p. 25. 



ONONIS rotundifolia fruticofa, pedunculis trifloris, calycibus 

 triphyllo-bra&eatis, foliis ternatis fubrotundis, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 3. p. 1010. 



CICER fylvcftre latifolium triphyllum. Bauh. fin. 347. 



CICER fylveftre tertiurn. Dod. Pempt. 525. 



Prof. Jacquin, and moft modern writers on Botany, con- 

 fider the Ononis here figured, as the rotundifolia of Linnjeus ; 

 it accords certainly with the figure of Dodon. to which that au- 

 thor refers, but is irreconcileable with his defcription ; the 

 leaves for example are neither parva, integerrima, nor gla£ra t 

 the words by which Linn.eus defcribes them; they are in- 

 deed evidently ferrated in the figure of Dodon. which he quotes : 

 by the name of rotundifolia^ however, this plant is now very 

 generally known in our nurferies, to which its beauty has 

 gained it admiffion. Lob el tells us in his Adverfaria, printed 

 i° , 57 D \ that the plant was then growing in the garden of a 

 Mr. Morgan; as it is not enumerated in Mr. Miller's 

 Dictionary, ed. 6, 4to,* we fufpecl. that it has been loit out 

 of the country and re-introduced. 



Baron Haller informs us, that it is found wild in abun- 

 dance at the bottom of the Alps in Switzerland; it is found 

 alfo in other parts of Europe. 



It flowers in our open borders from May to July, in which 

 it ripens its feeds, by which it is in general propagated, as 

 alfo by flips ; it grows to about the height of a foot and a half, 

 is very hardy, and eafy of culture. 



* The flowers of his rotunl/Aia are yellow, and therefore cannot be our plant. 



