CL. XVII.] DJADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 287 



Stem about a foot high, erect, three-cornered : leaves thrice ternate, 



with wedge-shaped leaflets : flowers pale-yellow, with deeper coloured 

 lips. Perennial : flowers in May : grows on old walls, in Derbyshire 

 and Yorkshire : rare, but is not truly wild. Eng. Bot. vol. ix. pi. 588. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 253. 1024. 



6. F. claviculdta. Pods lance-shaped, undulated ; stem climbing ; 



leaf-stalks ending in branched tendrils. Stem branched, slender, from 



two to three feet high: clusters opposite to each leaf: flowers yellowish- 

 white. Annual : flowers in June and July : grows in bushy places : 

 frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. ii. pi. 103. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 254. 1025. 



OCTANDRIA. 



2. POLY'GALA. MILKWORT. 



Calyx inferior, of five leaves; the three outer smaller, egg- 

 shaped. Petals varying in number, united to the filaments by 

 their claws ; limb of the upper deeply divided ; the lower keel- 

 shaped, generally crowned with a crested appendage. Filaments 

 united at the bottom, divided above into two sets ; anthers eight, 

 one-celled, tubular. Germen roundish. Style club-shaped, straight ; 

 stigma two-lipped. Capsule round or inversely heart-shaped, com- 

 pressed, two-valved, two-celled. Seeds one in each cell, oval, 

 downy, crested. Named from poly, much, and gala, milk. 347. 



1. P. vulgdris. Common Milkwort. Flowers in a terminal cluster; 

 two inner leaves of the calyx about equal to the corolla ; stems herba- 

 ceous, simple, ascending ; leaves narrow, lance-shaped. From three 



Jo six inches long : flowers blue, sometimes pink or white. Perennial : 

 flbwers in June and July: grows in dry pastures: common. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. ii. pi. 76. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 258. 1026. 



DECANDRIA. 



3. GENI'STA. BROOM. GREEN-WEED. 



Calyx inferior, two-lipped; the upper lip with two, the lower 

 with three teeth. Corolla of five petals ; standard inversely heart- 

 shaped, reflected, standing out from the rest ; wings oblong, 

 spreading; keel of two lance-shaped obtuse petals, cohering below. 

 Filaments ten, united below into a tube; anthers roundish. Stig- 

 ma oblong. Legume compressed, oblong, one-celled, with two 

 concave valves. Seeds several, roundish. Name, from gen, a 

 shrub, Celtic. 348. 



* Branches thornless. 



1. G. scopdria. Common Broom. Leaves ternate or solitary ; branches 



angular ; legumes much compressed, hairy at the margin. A bushy 



shrub with long, straight branches, having prominent, narrow angles : 

 flowers axillar, solitary or in pairs, of a rich golden-yellow, sometimes 

 tinged with red. Decoction of the young twigs is diuretic, and has been 

 used in dropsies. Flowers in May and June : grows is thickets and dry 



