834 DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Anthyllis 
am inclined to Mr. Hudson’s opinion,, as being removed into a garden it 
became upright, and more downy. If a variety, it is of O. arvensis and 
not of spinosa. Woodw. This has been taken for O. repens of Linnaeus ; 
but Dr. Afzelius informed me that species had not been found in England, 
which confirms Hudson’s opinion, formed after cultivating them toge¬ 
ther, that this is not specifically different from the arvensis. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward describes the arvensis as more downy than this, but my specimens 
from the southern coast are much more downy than those in the corn¬ 
fields of the midland counties. 
Creeping Rest-harrow. (O. repens. Linn. O. arvensis y. FI. Brit. 
E.) Sea-shore in sandy soils, frequent. Lightfoot. Field by Charlton 
church, between the gravel-pit and Woolwich, towards Gravesend, and 
on the sand-downs by Deal, and near Yarmouth. Ray. At Sandscale ; 
and in Walney, plentiful. Common in dry sandy pastures in Low Fur¬ 
ness. Mr. Atkinson. (North Shore, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. E.) 
P. June—July.* * 
ANTHYL'LIS.f Calyx inflated, inclosing the legume. 
A. vulnera'ria. Herbaceous: leaves winged, unequal: heads of 
flowers in pairs. 
Dicks. H. S.—Kniph. 6—FI. Dan. 988— E. Bot. 104— Dill. Elth. 431. 320 
—j Riv. Telr. 18. 1, Anthyllis — Ger. 1060. 1, and 1023. 4 —J.B. ii. 362— 
Dod. 552. 1— Lob. Obs. 530.1, and Ic. ii. 87. 2— Ger. Em. 1240. 1— Park. 
1093. 1. 
Stems ascending, about a foot high, cylindrical, downy, with five or six 
pair of leafits. Leaves downy, hairs adpressed. Flowers sessile, deep 
yellow. Each head supported by two floral leaves, the larger six or 
seven cleft, the smaller with four. The structure of the filaments is sin¬ 
gular ; towards the top they swell out like a hollow bladder, in shape 
of an inverted pyramid, and the anthers are fixed to the central part of 
the base of the pyramid. Style thickest at the curvature, thinner above 
and below. ( Calyx membranous, whitish, hairy. E.) 
Kidney Vetch. Ladies-finger. (Lamb-toe. Welsh: Plucenfelen. 
E.) Meadows and pastures, in chalky or calcareous soil. Wick 
Rocks, Somersetshire. Rev. G. Swayne. Craven, Yorkshire. Mr. Caley. 
Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh. Dr. Stokes. Limestone-pits, Cradley; near 
Malvern Hill, Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. (Common in Norfolk and 
Suffolk, wherever the soil is chalky. Mr. Woodward. Coughton fields, 
near Alcester. Purton. E.) Coast of Devon, common. P. May—Aug.J 
* (These species appear to afford a favourite repast to the large brown-shelled snail 
Helix hortensis, (rendering them almost as fit for pates as the delicious H.pomacea of the 
Continent,) as we have observed on the rocks near Teignmouth. E.) 
*f(From oivQos, a flower ; and the first down on the chin ; the whole plant being 
covered with soft down. E.) 
X (As a vulnerary, its ufdity is at least problematical: though in Threlkeld’s time 
(1727) it was regularly sold in Dublin market “ by the name of Stanch , being astringent.” 
Stirp. Hibern. E.) A yellow dye may be obtained from it. It affords an excellent 
pasturage for sheep. Where the soil was a reddish clay, Linnaeus remarked the blossoms 
to be red, but in white clay, white. (In Portugal we have always found them red. In 
England, most commonly, as the rustic poet observes, 
“ The yellow Lamb-toe I have often got, 
Sweet creeping o’er the banks in sunny time.” E.) 
Goats and cows eat it. (Though not in cultivation, Mr. Salisbury considers it well 
worth attention, as, where it flourishes most, (in calcareous soil), cows produce better 
milk and in greater quantity. E.) 
