DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Ononis. 
3 branche 
613 
0. Said in bunches, solitary: leaves solitary or 3 toge- spino’sa, 
s thorny. 
Ludw. bites. 5-Sheldr.79-Blackw. 301—Riv. tetr. 69, 
Anonis-H. ox. ii. 17. row 1. 1. f. 3—Fl. dan. 783-F. Be 
ii. 391.2~Ger. 1141. 1~Fuchs. 60-Trag. 869-Matth. 
62 4—Dod. 743. 2-Lob. obs. 492. 2, and it. tis 28. 1-Ger 
aan 1322. 1-Park. 994. 1-Lonic. i. 72. 1. 
down, woolly, reddish, thorny, especially from 
the tae ome ahs sida e. Thorns awl-sha ts placer | with 
sometimes 1 or 2 Flowers seed See oe: when 2 
they are fixed to a babies fruit-stalk. ole plant more 
Girileting. in softish thorns. Thorns at the ape of the —s 
Thorn bers pbaviows Caine, om Whin. Ground Furzee 
tae seatutex; hedge banks, holloways, either in a sandy or a 
soil, 
P. July.* 
O. Flowers in bunches, 2 together; leaves 3 together, the 
upper ones be elliary branches without thorns, some- 
what w 
ss bot. 682-Ger. 1142. 3. 
the autumn of 1779 I examined many hundreds of O. ar- 
Vensis i in igs cornfields B Rick hapsed: Hertfordshire, without 
in single on 
seam, sen Se me zael which: assures me never 
e emg and that the thorny sort is never found in that 
found 
/ 
€gg-shaped, toothed. Leaf-stalks short, fixed to a bated toothed 
* A decoction * the roots has been recommended in cases of stone 
and jaundice. Co oy and goats eat it ; sheep are very fond of it; horses 
and swine refuse j ely A horse refu ee" biioetes hole branch, but eat 
of the younger diogis when picked off. Dr. 
arven’sis, 
