STINKING BEAN-TREfoil; a genus of the monogyne order, belonging to the decandria class of plants.

Of this genus there is but one species, which grows naturally in the southern parts of Europe. It is a shrub which usually rises to the height of eight or ten feet, and produces its flowers in April or May. These are of a bright yellow colour, growing in spikes, somewhat like the laburnum.

Culture. This plant may be propagated either by seeds, or by laying down the tender branches in the spring; but the first method is preferable. The seeds should be sown toward the end of March in pots filled with light earth, and plunged in a gentle hot-bed. The plants usually appear in a month, when they should be gradually inured to the open air, that they may be hardened before winter. In the autumn and winter, they must be sheltered under a hot-bed frame: the spring following, they must be transplanted, each into a separate small pot, placed in a sheltered situation, and again removed into a frame to shelter them during the following winter. The second spring after the plants come up, some of them may be taken out of the pots, and planted in a border near a south-wall, where, if they are protected in winter, they may remain.

or ANAGYRUS, the name of a place in Attica, of the tribe Erechtheis, where a fetid plant, called Anagyrus, probably the same with the foregoing, grew in great plenty, (Dioecorides, Pliny, Stephanus;) and the more it was handled, the stronger it smelled: hence commovere anagyrin (or anagyrum), is to bring a misfortune on one's self, (Arilophanes.)