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O N O N I S arvensis.
Restharr ow.
MO N A D E L P H I A Decandria,
Gen. Char. Cal. campanulate, 5-cleft, with linear
segments. Vexillum large, streaked. Stam.
monadelphous. Pod turgid, sessile, few-seeded.
—Decand.
Spec. Char. Stems procumbent or creeping, hairy
all over. Flowering branches ascending, thickly
leaved. Lower leaves trifoliate, upper ones
simple. Leaflets roundish-oval or oblong, serrate
and covered with glandular hairs. Flowers
sessile or borne on short footstalks, scarcely
spiked. Lobes of the calyx rather longer than
the pods.
Syn. Ononis arvensis et O. repens. Linn. Syst.
Nat. ed. 12. v. 2. 478.
O. arvensis, O. repens, et O. spinosa. Linn. Syst.
Veg. ed. 14. 651.
O. arvensis a et y. Sm. Engl. FL 3. 267.
O. spinosa et O. repens. Linn. Spec. 1006.
O. procurrens. Wallr. Sched. Crit. 381. Decand.
Prod. 2. 162.
O. spinosa. FI. Dan. t. 783.
Ononis. Fuchs. Hist. 60. ic.
Ononis maritima procumbens foliis hirsutie pube-
scentibus. Dill. Hort. Elth. t. 25.
T h e r e is much confusion in the synonymy of the two
common red-flowered species of Ononis, most authors having
considered the presence or absence of the spines as a specific