DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Ononis. 267 



slightly heart-shaped, striated with numerous ribs, keeled 

 and compressed at the back, depressed at the sides ; 

 wings obovate, but half the length of the standard ; keel 

 of 2 converging petals, rather abrupt, pointed, a little 

 longer than the wings. Filavi. 10, united into one cy- 

 linder, splitting along the upper edge. AntJi. roundish. 

 Germ, oblong. Style cylindrical, ascending. Stigma 

 small, obtuse. Legume oblong-rhomboid, turgid, sessile, 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, of 1 cell, and 2 rigid, 

 elastic valves. Seeds few, kidney-shaped, roughish. 

 A numerous Europaean or African genus, herbaceous or 

 shrubby, occasionally spinous ; with sharply toothed, 

 mostly ternate, leaves; large stipulas j and handsome, red 

 or yellowish, stalked powers. Herbage mostly glutinous, 

 and often fetid. 



1. O.arvensis. Common Rest-harrow, or Cammock. 

 Stem hairy. Branches at length spinous. Flowers mostly 



solitary. Leaves generally simple ; entire towards their 



base. 



O. arvensis. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 1 2. v. 2. 478. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. 



651. Lightf.3SQ. FLBr.758. Engl.Bot. v. 10. t. 682. Hook. 



Scot. 2]2. 

 Anonisn. 356. Hall. Hist. v. I. 155. 

 a. Ononis inermis a. Huds. 312. 

 O.arvensis. With.627. Sibth.22Q. Abbot 155. 

 Anonis non spinosa purpurea. Raii Syn. 332 ; excluding the re- 

 ference to J. Bauhin, which belongs to O. hircina of Jacquin. 

 /3. Ononis spinosa /3. Limi. Sp. PI. 1006. 

 O. spinosa. Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. 65 1 . Willd. v.3. 989. Huds. 



312. fVith.627. Sibth. 220. Jbbot [55. Mart. Rust. t. \29. 



Fl. Dan. t. 783. Bull. Fr. t.l05. 

 Ononis. Dalech. Hist. 448./. Matth. Falgr. v.2.37.f. Camer. 



Epit. 443./. 

 Ononis. Fuchs. Hist. 60./. Ic. 35./. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 68. 

 A. spinosa, flore purpureo. Raii Syn. 332. 

 A. sive Resta bovis. Ger. Em. 1322./. 

 A. sive Resta bovis vulgaris, purpurea et alba spinosa. ■ Bauh. 



Hist. V. 2.391./ transposed with that o/ Epimedium. 

 y. Ononis repens. Linn. Sp. PL 1006. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. 651. 



Willd. v.3. 990. Light/ 387. , 

 ' O. inermis /3. Huds. 313. 

 O. arvensis var. 2. With. 628. 

 Anonis procumbens maritima nostras, foliis hirsutie pubescentibus. 



Raii Syn. 332. Pluk. Almag. 33. 

 A. mavitima procumbens, foliis hirsutie pubescentibus. Dill. 



EM. 29. f. 25. 



