266 DIADELPKIA— DECANDRIA. Ononis. 



slightly heart-shaped, striated with numerous ribs, keeled 

 and compressed at the back, depressed at the sides; 

 wings obovate, but half the length of the standard ; keel 

 of 2 converging petals, rather abrupt, pointed, a little 

 longer than the wings. Filcnn. 10, united into one cy- 

 linder, splitting along the upper edge. Anth. roundish. 

 Germ, oblong. Style cylindrical, ascending. Stigma 

 small, obtuse. Legume oblong-rhomboid, turgid, sessile, 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, of 1 cell, and 2 rigid, 

 elastic valves. Seeds few, kidney-shaped, roughish. 

 A numerous Europaean or African genus, herbaceous or 

 shrubby, occasionally spinous ; with sharply toothed, 

 mostly ternate, leaves; large stip^das ; and handsome, red 

 or yellowish, stalked^otu^/-^. Herbage mostly glutinous, 

 and often fetid. 



1. O.arvensis. Common Rest-harrow, or Cammock. 



Stem hairy. Branches at length spinous. Flowers mostly 

 solitary. Leaves generally simple ; entire towards their 

 base. 



O. arvensis. Linn. Syst. Nat.ed. 12. v. 2. 478. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. 



651. £ig/t</.386. Fl.Br.75S. Engl. Bot. v. 10. t. 682. Hook. 



Scot 212. 

 Anoms n. 356. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 155. 

 a. Ononis inermis a. Hiids. 312. 

 O.arvensis. With. 627. Sibth. 220. Abbot 155. 

 Anonis non spinosa purpurea. Raii Syn. 332 ; excluding the re- 

 ference to J. Bauhin^ which belongs to 0. hircina of Jacquin. 

 /3. Ononis spinosa (3. Linn. Sp. PL 1006, 

 O. spinosa. Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 1 4. 65 1 . Willd. v. 3. 989. Hiids. 



312. With. 627. Sibth.220. Abbot 155. Mart. Rust. t. 129. 



Fl. Dan. t. 783. Bull. Fr. t. 105. 

 Ononis. Dalech. Hist. 448. f. Matth. Valgr.v.2.S7.f. Corner. 



Epit. 443./. 

 Anonis. Fuchs. Hist. 60./. Ic. 35./. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 68. 

 A. spinosa, flore purpureo. Raii Syn. 332. 

 A. sive Resta bovis. Ger. Em. 1322./ 

 A. sive Resta bovis vulgaris, purpurea et alba spinosa. Bauh. 



Hist.v. 2. 391./, transposed with that of Epimedium. 

 y. Ononis repens. Linn. Sp. PL 1006. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. 651. 



Willd.v.2,.dd0. Lighlf.2,87. 

 O. inermis /3. Huds.ZU. 

 O. arvensis var. 2. With. 628. 

 Anonis procumbens maritima nostras, foliis hirsutie pubescentibus, 



Raii Syn. 332. Pluk. Almag. 33. 

 A. maritima procumbens, foliis hirsutie pubcf^ccntlbus. Ddl. EUh. 



29. t. 25. 



