Pl.ex.cal. 63. LEGUMINOSiE. 380. Onobrych. 619 



XIX. 380. ONOBRYCHIS. Dioscorides. Sainfoin. 



Calyx 5-cut; keel blunt at the end; wings very short ; 

 legumen compressed, short, 1 -celled, 1 -seeded, mostly 

 prickly ; upper suture flattened, truncated. 



Onobrychis saliva. Cultivated sainfoin. 



Stem ascending ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets wedgesnape, 

 bald; keel shorter than the standard; legumen bald, prickly, 

 toothed. 



Onobrychis seu Caput gallinaceum, Rail Syn, 327, 1 ; Gen em. 1243, I. 



Onobrychis vulgaris, Park. 1082. 



Hedysarum Onobrychis, Lin. S. P. 1059. 



Onobrychis saliva, De Cand. Fl. Gall. 4055. 



Medick fetchling. Cocks head. Sainfoin. Cinquefoil. 



Chalky fields, also cultivated ; perennial ; June and July. 



Stem 3 feet high, round; upper leaves pinnate, many- 

 paired ; leaflets equal ; peduncles very long, spiked ; flowers 

 bracteated ; calyx awlshape ; corolla deep rose-colour, 

 streaked. — Herb used for fodder. 



Fam. XXIX. 64. CELASTRINiE. R. Brown. Frangu- 



lacecBj De Candolle. 

 Calyx 1 -leaved, 4- or 5-cut ; petals 4 or 5, inserted on the 

 disk of the calyx; stamens as many as the petals, alternating 

 with them ; ovary simple, free, girt with the calyx-disk ; 

 capsule many- celled ; valves partition-bearing; perisperm 

 fleshy; corculum straight, radicle below. — Stem arborescent 

 or shrubby ; leaves stipuled, alternate or opposite. 



Styles 2 or 3 ; caps. 2 or 3, inflated ; 

 seeds bony, globular SxAPHYLiEA. 381. 



Style 1 ; cap. 5-celled, 5-valved .; 

 seeds covered with a coloured arille .... Evonymus. 382. 



I. 381. STAPHYL^A. Linnaeus. Bladdernut. 



Calyx 5-lobed, with a pitchershape disk ; petals 5 ; sta- 

 mens 5 ; ovary 2 or 3-lobed ; styles 2 or 3 ; capsules 2 or 3, 

 inflated, joined below ; seeds bony, globular, truncated at 

 bottom, inserted on the inner angle. 



Staphyl(Ba pinnata. Pinnate bladdernut. 



Leaves pinnate; leaflets 5, ovate, acute, serrated. 



Staphylodendron, Rail Syn. 468, 1. 



Nux vesicaria, Ger. em. 1437, 1 : Park. 1417. 



Staphylaea pinnata, Lin. S. P. 386. 



Woods and thickets, naturalized ? shrubby ; June. 



