3^6 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.. 



arvenftsi. ONONIS floribiis racemofis geminatis, foliis ter- 

 natis, fiiperioribus folitariis, raniis inermibus fub- 

 villofis. Lin. f^^ft. fiat, 478, Sf, pi 1006. (Ger. 

 m. 1322./. 3?) 

 Reftharrow or Cam mock. AngUs, 

 In barren paftures, but not very common. On the 

 fea coail near Leith. Dr. Parfons, %. VII. VIII. 

 The (lalks recline towards the ground, are tough 

 and branched, and have a red hairy bark : the 

 leaves are ferrated, vifcous and foetid, their foot- 

 ftaiks broad and foliaceous : the flowers are red, 

 and grow from the aU of the branches, each on 

 its own fhort footflalk, either fingle or in pairs, 

 but towards the fummits of the branches they 

 form a foliaceous fpike : the Calyx is hairy, in- 

 curv'd, and tubular, the upper fegments nearly 

 ftrait, and feparated by a kind of fifllire : the 

 lower one is longer than the reft : the pod is 

 fhort, rhomboidal, and contains about three kid- 

 ney-fhap'd feeds. 

 Jpnofa, pi j^g ^i^j^ pi^j^^ grows old the branches are all ter- 

 minated with a fharp woody fpine, which many 

 authors have defcribed as a dlftind fpecies. (vid. 

 Ger, em. 1322. /. 1. Rivin, /. 69. Blackwell /. 

 302.; 

 Prickly Reftharrow, ortTammock. Anglis, 

 It orrows upon the fides of the hills by Didiftori'- 

 Loch, near Edinburgh, &c. Dr. Parfons. % . VII. 

 VIII. 

 As this plant abounds in the HoIy-Lcnd, Hafelquift 



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