Winch, Esq., in Salt Meadows, at Gateshead, Durham ;
but in this last spot Mr. Winch suspects it is an introduced
plant; and the Rev. W. Wood of Fulham, at Putney, an
equally suspicious station.
It flowers in July, and is considered biennial. The stems
are from one to two feet or more in height, glabrous, striated.
Leaves upon short stalks, ternate, oblong, sharply ser-
rato-dentate, almost spinulose, marked with rather closely
set, oblique, parallel nerves. Racemes long, slender,from the
axils of the upper leaves, often panicled. Peduncle long.
Pedicels with a small, subulate bractea at the base, hairy.
Calyx green, with 5 subulate, nearly equal, hairy teeth.
Flowers white or cream-coloured. Legume scarcely longer
than the teeth of the calyx, ovate, terminated, until it is
fully ripe, by the long persistent style, wrinkled externally,
2-seeded.—W. J. H.
