LEGUMINIFER^. 19 



loniT, roso-rolour, with the wings and keel paler. Pod in the British 

 spccinioiis not Ioniser than the calyx, hrown and glandular-huiry. 

 I'laut dull-green, entirely viscous and pubescent. 



Small Spreading Rest-Hari'oio. 



Sub-Tribe II.— VULNERARIE^. 



Stamens monadelphous. Pod 1-celled. Leaves pinnate, with 

 an odd terminal leaflet, the lower ones occasionally unifoliate, from 

 the abortion of the lateral leaflets. 



GENUS F.— ANTHYLLIS. Linn. 



Calyx more or less coloured, tubular-inflated, indistinctly 

 2-lipped, upper lip 2-toothed, lower 3-toothed. Standard oval, 

 spreading, as long as the wings and keel; wings adhering to the 

 keel above the claws ; keel obtuse or very slightly beaked, with a 

 depression on each side above the claw. Stamens monadelphous. 

 Style subulate, curved, ascending towards the apex. Stigma ter- 

 minal, capitate. Pod stipitate, suborbicular, compressed, 1- or 

 2-seeded, completely inclosed in the tube of the calyx, which in 

 fruit becomes much swollen, membranaceous, bladdery, and with 

 the teeth connivent at the apex. 



Herbs or undershrubs, with the flowers yellow, purple, or rose- 

 colour, in lateral and terminal heads. 



The word anthyllia is an ancient name given to a number of plants, coming from 

 avQoq (mitJws), a flower. One etymologist adds to the dei-ivation the word lovXos {ioulos), 

 down, in reference to the flowers being usually downy. 



SPECIES I.— ANT HYLLIS VULNERARIA. Linn. 



Plate CCCXXXIII. 

 Stems herbaceous. Leaves pinnate, the lower ones with the 

 terminal leaflet much larger than the others, which in the radical 

 leaves are frequently absent. Heads of flowers generally in pairs. 

 Calyx-tube with the mouth oblique, inflated in fruit when it be- 

 comes white and chafi'-like ; upper teeth longest, ovate-triangular, 

 united together nearly to the apex, the 3 lower lanceolate-subulate, 

 the lowest shortest of all. Pod extremely small, quite concealed 



in. the calyx-tube. 



Var. a, vulgaris. 



A. vulneraria, Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 146. 



Flowers yellow. Involucre generally shorter than the flowers. 



