ONONIS. 
129 
The single authentic original ex. in the Linn. Herb, of Spar- 
tium complicatum Linn. ! Sp. PI. (ed. 1) i. 709, though closely 
resembling in habit and foliage the present pi., has the cal. 
simply pubescent and not glandulose. To this, under the name 
of Adenocarpus complicatus (L. !), belong probably the fol- 
lowing svn. : Cytisus complicatus Brot. ii. 92 (excl. syn. Cyt. 
parvifolius Lam.). C. Hispanicus Brot. ii. 91 P (not Lam.). 
C. divaricatus (3. “cal. pilosis nec glandulosis” BM. t. 1387. 
Adenocarpus Telonensis DC. Prodr. ii. 158. Ad. complicatus? 
Welwitsch ! ex. desicc. FI. Lusit. no. 781 in BH. 
6. Ononis L. 
Rest-harrow. 
§ Natrix Moench. FI. and pods distinctly stalked ; the stalk 
jointed upwards. 
1. O. RECLINATA L. 
Herbaceous annual softly glandular- villose erect bushy, lower 
branches ascending ; 1. ternate, uppermost simple, lfts. obovate- 
wedgeshaped serrate above the middle ; stip. oval or ovate 
toothed ; 11. axillary drooping in short leafy at first corymbose 
rac. ; ped. 1-fid. jointed upwards solitary erect simple not armed 
or aristate naked scarcely or but a little shorter than the 1., as 
long as the fl. and pods ; pedic. short abruptly hooked above 
its junction with the ped. naked or without bractlets at its 
base ; cor. mostly longer than cal. ; 4 upper sep. leafy often 
more or less dilated upwards, lowest simple linear-acuminate 
or subulate ; pod drooping linear-oblong turgid subcylindric 
hairy rather longer than the cal. 12-20-seeded ; seeds small 
orbicular-reniform compressed deep-black finely granulate or 
rough with excessively minute and close-set raised points. — 
Brot. ii. 97 ; DC. ii. 162 ? WB.! ii. 27. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 
rr 5 PS. reg. 2, 4, r ; ND. £ ; GD. reg. 2, r ; SD. reg. 2, r. March- 
July. — Whole pi. softly hairy and glandular-pubescent, some- 
times but not often viscid, light-gr. 4-8 in. high. 'St. short per- 
fectly round and slender always erect, the lower side-branches 
spreading or reclining, their ends ascending. L. -stalks in. 
long ; lfts. 3-5 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, rounded at the top, 
finely and distinctly serrulate above the middle, wedge-shaped 
and entire below. Fl. rather large and conspicuous, at first few 
and scattered, ultimately in lax short leafy rac. ; ped. erect 3 or 
4 lines long 1-fid., the pedic. abruptly bent down close above 
its junction with the ped., which is without either awn or 
bractlets at top. Standard always more or less deep rose- 
colour, wings and keel pale or whitish tipped with rose. Pod 
