18 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



name intended it to apply to only one of the forms which subse- 

 quent writers have placed under it. 



Frocumbent BestSarroio, Wild Liquorice. 



French, Bugra/m des Champs. Gterman, Feld HauccheL 



Section II.— NATRIX. 3Iduch. 



Peduncle often elongated, 1- or several - flowered, with the 

 pedicels articulated to it. When there is only a single flower, 

 there is thus an articulation beneath it. 



SPECIES III.— O NONIS RECLINATA. Linn. 

 Plate CCCXXXII. 

 Rootstock none. Stem ascending or decumbent, with numerous 

 weak spreading branches, without spines, glandular-hairy all 

 round. Leaves all trifoliate ; leaflets oblong-obovate or obovate, 

 denticulate only at the apex. Flowers solitary, axillary, in a short 

 compact raceme at the termination of the branches. Pedicels 

 longer than the calyx, at length hooked so that the calyx droops 

 after flowering. Calyx with the lower segment much shorter than 

 the others. Corolla about as long as the calyx. Pod drooping, 

 oblong-cylindrical. Seeds numerous. 



In sandy places. Very rare. Among the debris at the foot of 

 a clitf overhanging the rocky shore three miles north-west of the 

 Mull of Galloway, Wigtownshire : and between the Hermit Rock 

 and Corbelet's Bay, and on the hills of Mauney, near La Ti'ieve, 

 Alderney. There can be but little doubt, however, that the 

 Scotch locality found by Professor Graham is one where the plant 

 is not indigenous. 



[Scotland.] Channel Islands. Annual. Summer. 



A small plant, the British examples which I have seen not 

 being above 2 inches long ; but on the Continent it sometimes 

 attains the size of 6 inches. Leaflets ^ to ^ inch long, tapering 

 towards the base, acutely toothed at the rounded or subtruncate 

 apex ; middle leaflet stalked. Stipules large, half-ovate, adhering 

 for the greater portion of their length to the leafstalk. Peduncles 

 slender, ascending, with the articulation marking the commence- 

 ment of the pedicel near the apex; pedicel flrst straight and 

 ascending, but after flowering curved sharply round. Calyx very 

 deeply divided, the 4 upper lobes elliptical-lanceolate, the lower 

 one which is much shorter, linear-lanceolate. Flowers f inch 



