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Remedies (When plants are injured)

When plants are injured, the cause should be sought for, and the animals destroyed. Traps may be used successfully, such as slices of fruits or fleshy vegetables, laid in favourite retreats; or hollow stems, and other shelters, placed in the localities frequented by such animals. Such traps should be examined from time to time, and the Woodlice found therein destroyed by being crushed, or dropped into boiling water.

ONOBRYCHIS (the old Greek name used by Dioscorides, derived from onos, the ass, and brycho, to bray; said to be the favourite food of the ass, who brayed in his eagerness to get at it). Saintfoin. ORD. Leguminosae. A rather large genus of greenhouse or hardy, unarmed herbs or sub-shrubs, or rarely very spiny small shrubs. Upwards of seventy species have been described, not more than fifty of which are really distinct as such; they inhabit Europe, North Africa, and extra-tropical, mostly Western, Asia. Flowers purplish, pink, or white, disposed in axillary pedunculate spikes or racemes. Pods compressed, semi-orbiculate or orbiculate-circinate. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets entire, exstipellate. The plants are of easy culture in a deep sandy-loam soil. Seeds should be sown, in spring, in their permanent quarters. The only species calling for mention here are the following; they are hardy perennial herbs.

O. Caput-galli (cock's-head). fl. flesh-colour, in few-flowered spikes. July. Pod slightly pubescent. l. oblong or cuneate-obovate, mucronate, pubescent. Stem erect or diffuse. h. 1 1/2ft. South Europe, 1731. (S. F. G. 723, under name of Hedysarum Caput-galli.) O. radiata (rayed). fl. yellowish-white, lined with red, and spotted with yellow on the standard; calyx (and pod) villous; spikes cylindrical. June. l. ovate, obtuse, mucronate, hairy beneath. Stem erect, softly hispid. h. 1 1/2ft. Iberia, 1818. (B. R. 1847, 37.) O. sativa (cultivated). Common Saintfoin. fl. variegated, on elongated spikes.