832 DIADELPHIA. DECANDEIA. Ononis 
E. Bot. 743. 
A plant of more humble growth, with shorter spines, and smaller flowers 
than the preceding. Calyx silky, less woolly, with teeth deeply cut and 
standing apart. Blossom of a less bright colour than the former. FI. 
Brit. Stems and branches less deeply furrowed, and the leaves more per¬ 
manent ; but the best characteristic is that pointed out to me by Mr. 
Stackhouse, who first observed that U. Furopceus has a pair of distinct 
scales at the base of the calyx, which are pale and deciduous like the 
leaves ; but that U. nanus has a pair of dark-coloured spots, not deci¬ 
duous. These, when examined under a glass, are really scales, but very 
minute. The calyx in this species is scarcely at all woolly. Both species 
vary much as to hairiness, as well as in the length of their thorns; but the 
luxuriant and more upright growth of the former is strongly contrasted 
by the dwarfish and stunted appearance of the latter. 
Dwarf Furze. (Welsh: Eithin man. XJ. nanus. Forst. Sm. Willd. 
U. minor. Roth. U. Europceus (3. Linn. E.) On barren commons. 
Flowers all the year, but never more fully than in September and Octo¬ 
ber : (the flowering of the other species prevails chiefly in the spring 
months. P. E.)* 
ONO'NIS.f Cal . with five divisions: Standard striated: 
Legumes rhomboid, sessile. 
O. spino'sa. Flowers in bunches, solitary: leaves solitary or three 
together: branches thorny. 
Ludw. 68 — Kniph. 5 — Sheldr. 79 — Blackw. 301 — Biv. Tetr. 69, Anonis — H. 
Ox. ii. 17, row 1. 1 . f. 3— FI. Dan. 783 — J.B. ii. 391. 2 — Ger. 1141. 1 — 
Fuchs. 60 — Trag. 869 — Matth. 674 — Dod. 743. 2 — Lob. Obs. 492. 2, and 
Ic. ii. 28. 1— Ger. Em. 1322. 1— Park . 994. 1— Lonic. i. 72. 1. 
Stems decumbent, woolly, reddish, thorny, especially from the base to the 
middle. Thorns awl-shaped, pungent, with sometimes one or two leaves. 
Flowers mostly solitary, but when two, they are fixed to a cloven fruit- 
stalk. Retz. Whole plant more woody and rigid than O. arvensis. Stem 
Entirely confined to U. Europceus , and to be met with all the summer in Britain, 
(though not known on the Continent), is Apion (Curculio) Vlicis. Kirby. On this plant 
also will be found Abia sericea , Apion immune , and Arctia Russula : and the minute Ips 
rhododactylus preys upon, and penetrates the larger stems. E.) 
* (Whether this later flowering kind be really a distinct species, or, as we cannot but 
suspect, merely arising from fortuitous circumstances, here may appropriately be intro¬ 
duced a stanza from the “ Wild Garland.” 
(i Mid scatter’d foliage pale and sere. 
Thy kindly floweret cheers the gloom; 
And offers to the waning year 
The tribute of its golden bloom. 
Beneath November’s clouded sky. 
In chill December’s stormy hours, 
Thy blossom meets the traveller’s eye. 
Gay as the buds of summer bowers. 
Flower of the dark and wintry day! 
Emblem of Friendship ! thee I hail! 
Blooming when others fade away, 
And brightest when their hues grow pale.” E.) 
+ (From ms, an ass $ ancto delight $ asses being fond of it. E.) 
