DIADELPHIA. DECANDUIA. Oenithopus. 847 
Curt. — Riv. Tetr. 53, Cracca minor, siliquis gemellis -— {E. Rot. 1223. E.)—» 
Ger. 1052. 2 — FI. Dan. 95— J. B. ii. 315. 2 — H. Ox. ii. 4. 16— Anderson. 
Stem two-edgec^ nearly quadrangular. Leqfits generally ten, and mostly 
alternate. Fruit-stalks of a hair-like fineness, with one or two flowers. 
Flowers small, violet, often blood-coloured. Legume oval-oblong, 
smooth. Linn. ( Flower-stalks and calyx besprinkled with soft hairs. 
E.) 
(Mr. Woodward observed a lower and much branched variety with five, 
six, or seven, rarely four seeds, in gravelly soil, near Cambridge. E.) 
Smooth-podded Tare. (Welsh: Corhysen lefn bedair ronynog. E.) 
Corn-fields, hedges, and borders of ploughed fields. A. June. 
E. hirsu'tum. Fruit-stalks many-flowered: seeds two: (pods rough 
with hairs. E.) 
Dicks. H. S. — Curt .—( E . Bot. 970. E.)— Dod. 542. 3— Lob. Obs. 522. 2, 
and Ic. ii. 76. 1— Ger. Em. 1228— Park . 1069— Riv. Tetr. 53, Cracca 
minor.' — J. B. ii. 315. 1— FI. Dan. 639. 
(Much resembling the preceding species, but the stem smoother, leafits 
rather broader and more reflexed: the whole plant somewhat larger, 
two or three feet long, slender, climbing. E.) Stems weak, much branched, 
angular, scored. Leaf-scales, the lower with two or three awl-shaped 
teeth, the upper awl-shaped, entire. Leqfits mostly strap-shaped, eight 
to twelve pair, somewhat alternate, terminated by a branched tendril. 
Fruit-stalks axillary, shorter but not so slender as in E. tetraspermum. 
Flowers two, three, or four, on very short pedicles; when two, separate ; 
if three, two of them together; if four, in pairs. Legume hairy. Woodw. 
Flowers small, pale purple, or white. 
Rough-podded Tare. (Welsh : Corbysen jlewog. E.) Sandy corn-fields 
and meadows. (A. June—Sept. E.)* 
ORNFTHOPUS.f Seed-vessel cylindrical, articulate, curved. 
O. perpusil'lus. Leaves winged: legumens incurved, jointed: 
(flowers capitate, bracteated. E.) 
{Curt. — E. Bot. 369. E.)— Kniph. 7 — Dod. 544— Lob. Obs. 527. 2, and Ic. 
ii. 81. 2—Park. 1092. 1— H. Ox. ii. 10. 13— Lob. Adv. 403. 1, and Ic. ii. 
94. 1— Ger. Em. 1241. 4— Park. 1092. 1, of chap. 23. 
Root slender, nearly as long as the stems ; lateral fibres few. Stems trail¬ 
ing, from one to six inches high. Root-leaves numerous, prostrate, the 
lowermost sometimes on leaf-stalks, the rest sessile ; leqfits egg-shaped, 
or elliptical, opposite or alternate, from three to fourteen pairs, with an 
odd one smaller. Flowers one to five, terminal, opposite a leaf. Le« 
* Horses, cows, goats, and sheep eat it. Linn. In wet seasons whole fields of corn 
have been overpowered and wholly destroyed by it. (Hence it is sometimes called 
Strangle Tare. This evil is occasioned both by the wild and cultivated Tares being 
mixed with samples of seeds of wheat and barley. When ground in the flour they affect 
it with a strong disagreeable flavour. Mr. Holdich suggests that field tares should never 
be suffered to go to seed, but rather be fed off and ploughed down, soon enough to prevent 
their spreading. Both these Tine Tares not only illustrate the old adage, that “ ill weeds 
grow apace; ” but that they likewise increase by superabundant fertility ; for it appears 
from experiment, that a single seed will, by the produce of one plant only, multiply itself a 
thousand fold in a very short time. E.) 
t (From o png , op/0of, a bird j and nog , a foot ; the curved legume exactly resembling 
a bird’s foot. E.) 
