PEA FAMILY 



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broad ; keel incurved, pointed ; stamens monadelphous ; style 

 curved ; pod not compressed. (Name of Greek origin, connected 

 with onos, an ass.) 



1. O. repe?is (Creeping Rest-harrow, Wild Liquorice). — A 

 prostrate, shrubby plant with runners, hairy, viscid, most com- 

 monly without spines ; leaflets oblong ; flowers axillary, solitary, 

 and of a handsome bright pink ; pod shorter than the calyx. The 

 plant has a powerful odour and derives its name of Rest-harrow 

 from its tough branches. — Dry pastures and sandy shores; 

 common. — Fl. all the summer. Perennial. 



2. O. spinbsa (Erect 

 Rest-harrow). — A sub-erect 

 species, without runners, 

 with two lines of hairs, less 

 viscid and less strongly 

 scented than the last, 

 usually spinous ; leaflets 

 oblong ; flowers differing 

 slightly from those of O. 

 repens ; pod longer than the 

 calyx. — Waste places ; fre- 

 quent. — Fl. all the summer. 

 Perennial. 



3. O. reclindta (Small 

 Spreading Rest-harrow) is 

 a small, spreading, herba- 

 ceous species, viscid and 

 hairy, with reflexed pods, 

 which has only been found 

 in Alderney, Devon, and 

 Galloway.— Fl. June, July. 

 Annual. 



on6nis ripens {Creeping Rest-harrow). 



5. Trigonella (Fenu- 

 greek). — Herbs, often strongly scented; leaves as in Ononis; 

 flowers solitary or in short racemes ; calyx 5-toothed ; stamens 

 diadelphous ; /^compressed, longer than the calyx, many-seeded. 

 (Name, the old Greek name denoting three-angled, from the form 

 of the corolla.) 



1. T. omithopodioides (Bird's-foot Fenugreek).— A small, slen- 

 der, prostrate, glabrous plant, with small pink and white flowers^ 

 ! — 3 together, and straight, 6— S-seeded pods, twice as long as the 

 calyx, dehiscent. — Dry sandy places ; not common. — Fl. June — 

 August. Annual or biennial. 



