LEGUMENIFERS. 19 
long, rose-colour, with the wings and keel paler. Pod in the British 
specimens not longer than the calyx, brown and glandular-hairy. 
Plant dull-green, entirely viscous and pubescent. 
Small Spreading Rest-Harrow. 
Sus-Trise I].—VULNERARIEA. 
Stamens monadelphous. Pod 1-celled. Leaves pinnate, with 
an odd terminal leaflet, the lower ones occasionally unifoliate, from 
the abortion of the lateral leaflets. 
GENUS V.—ANTHYLIBIS. Linn. 
Calyx more or less coloured, tubular-inflated, indistinctly 
2-lipped, upper lip 2-toothed, lower 3-toothed. Standard oval, 
spreading, as long as the wings and keel; wings adhering to the 
keel above the claws; keel obtuse or very slightly beaked, with a 
depression on each side above the claw. Stamens monadelphous. 
Style subulate, curved, ascending towards the apex. Stigma ter- 
minal, capitate. Pod stipitate, suborbicular, compressed, 1- or 
2-seeded, completely inclosed in the tube of the calyx, which in 
fruit becomes much swollen, membranaceous, bladdery, and with 
the teeth connivent at the apex. 
Herbs or undershrubs, with the flowers yellow, purple, or rose- 
colour, in lateral and terminal heads. 
The word anthyllis is an ancient name given to a number of plants, coming from 
avOoc (anthos), a flower. One etymologist adds to the derivation the word tovdog (coulos), 
down, in reference to the flowers being usually downy. 
SPECIES I—ANTHYLLIS VULNERARIA. Lin. 
Prate CCCXXXITI. 
Stems herbaceous. Leaves pinnate, the lower ones with the 
terminal leaflet much larger than the others, which in the radical 
leaves are frequently absent. Heads of flowers generally in pairs. 
Calyx-tube with the mouth oblique, inflated in fruit when it be- 
comes white and chaff-like; upper teeth longest, ovate-triangular, 
united together nearly to the apex, the 3 lower lanceolate-subulate, 
the lowest shortest of all. Pod extremely small, quite concealed 
in the calyx-tube. 
) Var. a, vulgaris. 
A. vulneraria, Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. IT. p. 146. 
Flowers yellow. Involucre generally shorter than the flowers. 
