30 CALICYFLOKJE. 



GENISTA. GEEEN-WEED. 



G. Anglica (needle (?., or Petty -whin.) In wet heaths and 

 moory ground. A small, loosely -branched, spreading plant, scarcely 

 a foot high, with ovate-lanceolate leaves, and bearing simple spines ; 

 flowering branches spineless ; flowers yellow, in short axillary 

 racemes, accompanied by leaf- like bracts ; pods about half an inch 

 long, broad and swelling. Bovey Heath. (E. B. t. 132.) Sh. 



SAROTHAMNUS. BEOOM. 



S. scoparius (common Broom.) On high hilly wastes and 

 bushy places. Plant from 2 or 3 to 6 feet high, with numerous 

 long, upright, wiry branches, which are green and prominently 

 angled. Leaves ternate, stalked ; leaflets obovate ; upper leaves 

 simple and sessile. Flowers large, golden-yellow, single or in 

 pairs, borne on slender stalks in the axils of the old leaves. Pod 

 hairy at the sides, many-seeded. Cliffs at Meadfoot. Walks at 

 Ilsham. Downs above the Teign, near Whyddon Park. (Spar- 

 tium, E. B. t. 1339.) Sh. v. vi. 



ONONIS. EEST-HAEEOW. 



O. arvensis (common Rest-harrow.) In barren pastures, ill- 

 cultivated lands, and borders of fields ; very variable in its ap- 

 pearance, sometimes erect, but usually procumbent and rooting ; 

 stem generally clothed with soft hairs, and having a sticky feel 

 to the touch, sometimes spinous. Leaves oval or oblong, some- 

 what serrate: lower leaves ternate. Flowers on short stalks, 

 solitary, sometimes white, but generally rose-coloured, pod 2- or 3- 

 seeded. Very frequent. Fields on the Warberry Hill. Walks above 

 Meadfoot. Paignton Green, etc. O. campestris, Bab. (E. B. t. 

 682.) P. vi.-ix. 



ANTHYLLIS. KIDNEY-VETCH. 



A. Vulneraria (common It., or Ladies* -fingers) In dry pas- 

 tures, and rocky or stony places in hilly districts. Stems spreading 

 or ascending from 3 or 4 inches to a foot long. Leaves pinnate, 

 with from 5 to 9 lanceolate, hairy leaflets, the terminal one the 



