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pules serrate; stems prostrate. The whole plant is some- 

 times covered with flowers, which are purple, and sometimes 

 they are only at the ends of the branches. Native of Italy, 

 and of Dauphiny. 



***With owned Peduncles, 



23. Ononis Vaginalis; Sheathed Rest-harrow. Peduncles 

 one-flowered, awned; leaves sessile, ternate, and stipules 

 sheathing, toothed. Viscid, villose, with a woody stem ; 

 corolla yellow, with a purple striated standard. At one time 

 of the year it puts on so different an appearance, as to be 

 easily taken for a distinct species ; with the branchlets clus- 

 tered, half an inch long; and the leaflets and stipules smaller, 

 closely imbricate. 



24. Ononis Cherleri; Dwarf Rest-harrow. Peduncles 

 one-flowered, awned; leaves ternate, viscid and hairy; 

 stipules serrate. Root woody; stem procumbent, diffused, 

 wrapped in stipules every way; flowers axillary, their stalks 

 erect, but nodding with the legume. Native of the south of 

 Europe. 



25. Ononis Viscosa; Clammy Rest-harrow. Peduncles 

 one-flowered, awned ; leaves simple, the lowest ternate. 

 Annual, with a strong, herbaceous, hairy stalk, a foot and 

 half high, sending out branches the whole length. Native 

 of the south of France, Spain, and Portugal. 



26. Ononis Ornithopodioides ; Bird's-foot" Rest-harrow. 

 Peduncles two-flowered, awned ; legumes linear, drooping ; 

 stem erect, flexuose, with short alternate branches. It flow- 

 ers in July, and the seeds ripen in autumn. Native of Sicily. 



27. Ononis Pinguis; Greasy Rest-harrrow. Peduncles 

 one-flowered, awned; leaves ternate, lanceolate; stipules 

 quite entire. Native of the south of Europe. 



28. Ononis Natrix; Yellow-flowered Shrubby Rest-har- 

 row. Peduncles one-flowered, awned; leaves ternate, viscid; 

 stipules quite entire ; stem shrubby. This is a very strong- j 

 smelling plant, with the odour of Theriaca, and not very 

 clammy ; root large and wrinkled ; stems more or less upright, 

 commonly a foot high; flowers large, yellow, solitary, the 

 upper part rayed with red lines. Native of the South of I 

 France, of Spain, Portugal, Carniola, and Switzerland. It | 

 is propagated by seeds, sown in thin drills, upon a bed of 

 light earth. When the plants cor.-.e up, keep them clean 

 from weeds till autumn; then take them up carefully, and 

 transplant them into the borders of the" pleasure-garden, 

 where they are to remain ; the second year they will flower, 

 and produce ripe seeds, but the roots will continue several 

 years, and are very hardy. 



****Shrubby. 



29. Ononis Tridentata; Three-tooth-leaved Rest-harrow. 

 Shrubby: leaves ternate, fleshy, sublinear, three-toothed; pe- 

 duncles two-flowered ; stem erect, panicled ; flowers in terminal 

 clusters, rose-coloured, on axillary jointed stalks. Native 

 of Spain and Portugal. This, with all the following species, 

 may be propagated by seeds sown upon a bed of light earth 

 in April. The plants will come up in May, when they must 

 be kept clean from weeds ; and if they be too close, some of 

 them should be carefully drawn up in moist weather, and 

 transplanted at four or five inches' distance; in the autumn 

 they should be transplanted again, to the places where they 

 are to remain. Those plants which were left growing in the 

 bed where they were sown, must be treated in the same 

 way. They will not thrive in pots, and do not flower till the 

 second year, when they make a fine appearance during the 

 continuance of their flowers. It will not thrive in the open 

 air in England, unless it be planted in a warm situation; and 

 in a very severe frost, covered to protect it. The seeds must 

 be sown upon a well-sheltered border. 



30. Ononis Crispa; Curled-leaved Rest-harrow. Shrubby: 

 leaves ternate, waved, roundish, toothed, viscid, pubescent; 

 peduncles one-flowered, awnless. Stem erect, panicled, pu- 

 bescent, viscid; flowers lateral, axillary, solitary, on a very 

 short peduncle; corolla yellow, the size of the leaves; with 

 the standard streaked of a blood-red colour on the outside. 

 Native of Spain. 



31. Ononis Hispanica; Spanish Rest-harrow. Shrubby: 

 peduncles awned, one or two flowered; all the leaves ternate, 

 channelled, recurved, serrate all along the edge; plant strict 

 viscid, inodorous; flowers yellow, streaked with red. Native 

 of Spain. 



32. Ononis Fruticosa; Shrvbby Rest-harrow. Shrubby: 

 leaves sessile, ternate, lanceolate, serrate; stipules sheathing; 

 peduncles subtriflorous. This is a very beautiful low shrub, 

 rising with slender stalks about two feet high, dividing into 

 many branches. The flowers come out in panicles at the 

 end of the branches upon long peduncles, which generally 

 sustain three large purple flowers. It varies with white 

 flowers. The flowers appear in May and June. Found on 

 hills and mountains in the south of France. This species 

 will thrive very well in a shady border, and produce abun- 

 dance of seeds. Mr. Curtis observes, that though it affects 

 a dry and sandy situation, it is by no means nice as to soil 

 or place, being hardy enough to survive a severe winter. 

 In the collections near London, it is frequently found in pots, 

 and kept with green-house plants. The best mode of raising 

 it is from seed. 



33. Ononis Rotundifolia ; Round-leaved Rest-harrow. 

 Shrubby: leaves ternate, ovate, toothed ; calices three-leaved, 

 bracted; peduncles subtriflorous; stem round, striated, some- 

 what villose, a foot and half or two feet in height. Tht 

 flowers form handsome bunches at the ends of the branches, 

 of a fine rose colour. The standard is very large, roundish, 

 and pubescent. It flowers from May to July, and is a native 

 of Switzerland. It flowers in our open bordes, and ripens 

 its seed, by which it is generally propagated. It may also 

 be increased by slips, is very hardy, and easily cultivated. 

 Its beauty has introduced it into our nurseries. 



34. Ononis Microphylla ; Small-leaved Rest-harrow. 

 Shrubby, thorny : leaves minute, ternate, quite entire ; legumes 

 recurved. This shrub is very much branched, somewhat 

 spreading, and armed with stout thorns. Native of the Cape. 



35. Ononis Mauritanica; Barbary Rest-harrow. Shrubby: 

 leaves quinate, obovate, mucronate, silky underneath; sti- 

 pules filiform; peduncles racemed. Native of the Cape. 



36. Ononis Subocculta. Flowers sessile; all the leaves 

 ternate; leaflets orbiculate; stipules lanceolate, serrate; cali- 

 ces of the same length with the corolla. This species derives 

 its specific name Subocculta, from the following singular 

 peculiarity. In autumn the petals become so small, as to be 

 concealed under the germen at the bottom of the calix, so 

 as not to be seen; the fruit however is not on this account 

 abortive. All parts of the flower are straight, distinct, not. 

 touching each other, but pale and flat, and seeming to be 

 the commencement of a regular flower of four unequal petals. 

 The flowers are more generally found in this state, than 

 developed, coloured, and equal in length to the calix. 

 Native of Dauphiny and the county of Nice. 



37. Ononis Strata. Stems prostrate ; leaves ternate, 

 smooth, striated; stipules ovate, acute, serrate; peduncles 

 one-flowered; calices and legumes hirsute. Root perennial, 

 hard, knobbed, tubercled, furnishing several creeping stems, 

 commonly simple, from four to six inches in length, which 

 have few leaves on their lower parts, and at top display a 

 parcel of yellow flowers in a raceme. Native of Dauphiny. 



