268 DIADELPHIA — DECANDIllA. [Orobus. 



brous, leaves ternate stalked, upper ones simple, leaflets oblong, 

 flowers axillary shortly pedicellate, legumes hairy at the margin. 



— Sparlinm, L. — E. Bot. t. 1339 Geiiista, Laui. 



Dry hills and bushy places, frequent. Fl. June. \. — 3—6 ft. or more 

 liigh. Branches long, straight, green. Flowers large, bright yellow ; 

 keel broad ; standard and ivings much spreading. Legumes large, com- 

 pressed, dark brown. — The young green tops are said to be powerfully 

 purgative and diuretic ; and they are very bitter. 



7. Ononis. Linn. Rest-harrow. 



1. O. arvensis, 1j. (common Rest-Harrotu) ; shrubby, hairy, 

 branches spinous, leaves often sessile, lower ones ternate, the rest 

 simple serrated at the base, flowers mostly solitary subsessile, 

 calyx much shorter than the corolla, much longer than the ob- 

 liquely rhomboid 2 — 3 seeded legume. E. Bot. t. 682. and SuppL 

 t. 2659. 



Barren pastures and borders of fields. Fl. June— Aug. If. — A very 

 variable plant, erect or procumbent and rooting, more or less spinous ; 

 leaves ovate or cnnc^Xe; flowers rather large, rose-coloured, sometimes 

 white. Smith enumerates 3 vars,, and De Candolle makes of them two 

 species, O. procurrens and O. spinosa. 



2. O. reclindla, 1j. (^small spreading Rest- Harroiv); herbaceous 

 spreading viscid and hairy, leaves all stalked ternate, stipules 

 broadly ovate, peduncles 1-flowered, calyx about as long as the 

 corolla, shorter than the closely reflexed cylindrical legumes, 

 whicli have 14 — 16 warted seeds. 



Steep bank, close by the sea, 2 m. west from Tarbert, Galloway. Dr 

 Graham, 1836. Fl. July. 0. — This little species has been gathered hi 

 the above extremely wild locality, in considerable quantity, by Dr Graham 

 and his students. It is a South of Europe plant. The O.' Cherleri, L. 

 from Montpellier {Thomas), from Smyrna {Unio Itiner.), and from 

 Sicily {Swainson) ; and the O. mollis, of Tenore (Herb. Hooh.), are 

 not distinct from it. 



8. Anthvllis. Lirm. Kidney- vetch. 

 1. A. vulnerdria, L. (cotnmo7i Kidney-velch or Lady s -fingers); 

 herbaceous, leaves pinnated unequal, beads of flowers in pairs. 

 E. Bot. t. 104. 



Dry pastures, frequent. With red and sometimes white or cream- 

 coloured fl., in Devonshire, Wales, and south of Ireland, mostly by the 

 sea. Fl. June — Aug.l/: . — Stem ascending. Leaflets 5 — 9, lanceolate, 

 entire, hairy, terminal one the largest. Flowers in crowded heads, with 

 hairy calyces, and large digitate or palmated bracfeas. 



9. Orobus. Liim. Bitter-vetch. 



1. O. tuherosus, L. {tuberous Orobus); leaves pinnated with 

 2 — 4 pairs of elliptical lanceolate leaflets glaucous beneath, sti- 

 pules hair arrow-shaped toothed at the base, stem simple erect. 

 E. Bot. t. 1153. — /3. leaflets linear. O. tenuifolius, Roth. 



Mountain thickets, frequent ; very common in Surrey. — /3. Kinnaird ; 

 and Moy Woods, Inverness-shire. Near Elgin. Fl. May, June. If. — 

 Hoots tuberous, eaten by the Highlanders under the name of Cormeille, 



