596 S63. Genista. 63. LEGUMINOS^. PL ex. cal. 



High sandy fields ; shrubby; May. 



Root woody ; stem streaked ; leaves in bundles, petioled ; 

 legumen compressed, 2 or 3-seeded. 



b. Branches spinous. 



4. Genista Anglica. English broom. 



Leaves ovate, bald ; spines simple and compound ; flower- 

 ing branches spineless ; flowers axillary, solitary, nearly 

 racemose ; corolla and legumen bald^ 



'Genista minor aspalathoides, sive Genista spioosa Anglica, Raii Syn. 

 475, 1. 



Genista aculeata, Ger. em. 1320, 4. 

 Genistella aculeata, Park. 1004. 

 Genista Anglica, Lin. S. P. 999. 

 Needle furze. Petty whin. 



Spongy heaths ; shrubby; May and June. 



Root woody ; stem ascending ; spines spreading, awlshape; 

 leaves pointed ; flowers citron ; standard gold-colour ; legu- 

 men turgidj many-seeded. 



III. 364. ONONIS. Theophrastus. Rest-harrow. 



Calyx bellshape, 5-cut, lobes linear ; standard striated ; 

 stamens monadelphous ; legum£n inflated, sessile, few- 

 seeded. — heaves ternate, leaflets slightly serrated; stipules 

 joined to the petiole ; flowers (in the English species) axil- 

 lary, sessile, purplish. 



1 . Ononis arvensis. Fallow rest-harrow. 



Stem villous, ascending ; twigs grow spinous ; leaves often 

 simple, not in the least cut at bottom ; flowers nearly sessile, 

 solitary or in paii-s. 



Ononis arvensis, Lightfoot Fl. Scot, 386, 



Barren pastures and waysides ; perennial ; 

 Root black; stem annual, leafy ; branches villous; lower 

 leaves ternate ; leaflets ovate, rather viscid. 



$. repens. Branches villous ; leaves round, serrate. 

 Anonis procumbens maritima nostras foliis hirsutis pubescentibus, Raii 

 Syn. 332, 3. 



Ononis repens, Lin. S. P. 1006. 



y. antiquorum. Branches nearly smooth ;^ozfer.j solitary, 

 larger than the leaves. 



Ononis arvensis ^, Smith Pi. Brit. 758. 



?■. spinosa. Stem hairy, hairs brown ; leaves rather bald ; 

 flowers in pairs larger than the leaves. 



