CLIII. 

 ONONIS ARVENSIS. 



Common Rest-harrow. 



Class XVII. Diadelphia.— Order III. Decandria. 



Nat. Ord. LeguminosjE. 



Gen. Char. Calyx campanulate, five-cleft, with linear 

 segments. Standard large, striated. Legume turgid, 

 sessile, few-seeded. 



Spec. Char. Stem hairy. Branches spinous or unarmed. 

 Leaves ternate, below, the rest simple, cuneate-elliptic. 

 Flowers usually solitary. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Greek. . . . ovmis ; avuvi?. 



f Ononis purpurea sine spinis. Bauh. J. ii. 394. 



IAnonis non spinosa purpurea. Raii Syn. 332. 

 f\-nr\<r.la dim Vncfo k«ul« »«•., h 77.' vi QOO J 



Latin 



J Ononis, sive Resta bovis. Bauh. Pin. 389. Ger. Em. 1322. 



/3 Anonis aut O. spinosa, flore purpureo. Park. Tlieatr. 994. 



Anonis spinosa flore purpureo. Raii Syn. 332 ; Hist. 957- 

 ^Anonis arvensis. Lin. Sp. PL 1006. Engl. Fl. iii. p. 267- 

 French. . . Arrete-bceuf ; Bugrane ; Bugrande ; Bugrave. 

 Italian.., Ononide ; Anonide ; Bulimaca ; Resta d'aratro. 

 Spanish . . Detienebuey ; Remora de arado. 

 Port. .... Restaboy. 



German . . Hauhechel ; Ochsenbrecb ; Stallkraut. 

 Dutch.... Prangwortel; Stalkruid; Ossenbrecke. 



Description. The root is perennial, very strong and woody, 

 creeping, often a foot or more in length, and varying in size 

 from the thickness of a quill to that of the finger ; it is brown 

 externally, whitish within. The stems are annual, round, 

 woody, branched, leafy, erect or procumbent, more or less 

 hairy, purplish ; the branches in a barren soil and on an old 

 root terminating in a sharp thorn. The leaves are alternate, 



