CL. XVII,] DIADELPHIA DECANDKIA. 287 



rounded. 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. 

 Etig. 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 

 bushv Dlaces : frequent. Enn.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, compressed, two-valved, two-celled. Seeds one in each 

 cell, oval, downy, crested, Named from, poly, much, and gala, 

 milk. 347. 



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

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

 baceous, simple, ascending ; leaves narrow, lance-shaped. From 



three to six inches long : flowers blue, sometimes pink or white. 

 Perennial : flowers in June and July : grows in dry pastures : com- 

 mon. 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 be- 

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

 Stigma oblong. Legume compressed, oblong, one-celled, with 

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

 a, shrub, Celtic. 348. 



* Branches thornless. 



I. 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 promi- 

 nent, 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 



