ONONIS, in botany, a genus of the diadelphia decandria class. The calix has five segments; the vexillum is striated; and the pod is sessile and turgid. There are 19 species, three of them natives of Britain, viz. the spinosa, or rest-harrow; the arvensis, or corn rest-harrow; and the repens, or creeping rest-harrow.
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