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AKBOKETUM AND FllUTfCl'.TUM. 



PART IH, 



a 4-. A. trlone'nsIS Dec. The Toulon Adenocarpus. 



Identification. Dee. VI Fr. Suppl., 54., Leg. Mem., 6., Prod., 



•:. p' 158. ; Don's Mill., 2. }>. L5& 

 St/>h»ii/"\s. (\tisus telonensts Lois. /•'/. Gtatt., 44!l, and in A T . 

 ' /).•. ' Ham , .">. p. 155. ; Np.utiuin complic&tum Gouan Hort. 



Monsfk, 356 , exclusive of the synonyme. 

 F-ignirings. N. Du Ham., 5 t. 47. f. '-'. ; and onr^. 297. 



Spec. Char., $c. Calyx not glandulose, pubes- 

 cent ; the segments on the lower lip nearly 

 equal, exceeding a little the upper lip in length. 

 Branches almost glabrous. Flowers distant. 

 Standard pubescent. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 158.) 

 A native of sterile places and heaths in the 

 Pyrenees, in Cevennes, in Provence, and in 

 Kome. A shrub, between 2 ft. and 4 ft. high. 

 Introduced in 1800, and flowering in June and 



July. It well deserves a place in British gardens; where, when judiciously 

 treated, it will, owing to the moisture of our climate, attain double the 

 height that it does in the south of France. 



App. i. Half-hardy Species of Adenocarpus. 



A. frankenioldes Chois., Dec. Prod., 2. p. 158. ; Genista visebsa Willd. ; is a native of Teneriffe, or> 

 declivities 500ft above the level of the sea. Introduced in 1815, and flowering from April to July. 

 It is commonly kept in frames ; but, in a dry, airy, and yet sheltered situation, it will doubtless 

 stand the open air. It is usually confounded in gardens with A. foliolosus; from which it differs in 

 having a glandular calyx. 



A.foliolbsus Dec, C\tisus foliolosus Ait., is a native of the Great Canary Island. Introduced in 

 1629 ; and a very old inhabitant of cold-pits and frames; flowering from May to July. 



Genus X. 



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ONONIS L. The Restharrow. Lin. Syst. Monadelphia Decandria. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 863. ; Lam. 111., t. 616. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 158. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 158. 

 Synonymes. Anbms and Matrix Mcench Meth., 157. and 158. ; Arrete-beeuf, or Bugrane, Fr. ; Han- 



ecl.el, Ger. 

 Derivation. Said to be from onos, an ass ; because only asses would feed upon so prickly a plant. 



Restharrow is a corruption of arrest, that is, stop, harrow ; from the long and deeply seated roots 



opposing a serious impediment to the plough or harrow. 



Description. Suffruticose plants, with, mostly, trifoliolate leaves ; and axillary 

 flowers, that in some are pedicelled, and in some sessile ; and yellow, pur- 

 plish, and red, or, rarely, white. The peduncle is, in many instances, furnished 

 with an awn, which is the petiole of an abortive floral leaf. (Dec. Prod. y 'n. 

 p. 158.) Natives of Europe and Africa. Most of the species we have enu- 

 merated may be treated as herbaceous plants ; but, being technically suffru- 

 ticose, we considered it proper not to omit them. They are well adapted for 

 rock work or flower-borders, on account of their lively flowers, some of 

 which are red, or reddish purple; colours not frequently met with in the lig- 

 neous Leguminaceae, by far the greater part of which have yellow flowers. 

 They are readily propagated by seeds or by division, and will grow in any 

 soil that is tolerably dry. According to Pliny and Dioscorides, the shoots 

 of Ononis are eaten pickled in brine, and the leaves are applied to ulcers. In 

 modern times, it is considered to be slightly aperient and diuretic. 

 « l.O. frutico x sa L. The shrubby Restharrow. 



Idcntificatirm. 1-iri. Sp , 1010 ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 167. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 160. 



wings. S. Du Ham., 1. t. 58.; Mill. Icon., t. 36. ; Bot. Mag.,t. 317. ; and our ^.298. 



Spec. Char,, SfC. Shrubby. Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflets sessile, lanceolate, 

 serrated. Stipules connate into one, sheathing, and 4-awned; and, in the 

 uppermost parts of the plant, occupying the places of leaves which are 

 absent. Pedicels 3-flowered, disposed in a raceme. (Dec. P?od.,\\. p. 161.) 



