STINKING BEAN-TREFOL: A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the decandra class of plants; and, in the natural method, ranking under the 32d order, Papilionaceae. The characters are: The calyx is a bell-shaped perianthum: The corolla is papilionaceous; the vexillum cordated, straight, emarginated, and twice as long as the calyx; the alae ovate, and longer than the vexillum; the carina straight and very long: The stamina consist of 10 filaments; the anthera simple: The pistillum has an oblong germen, a simple stylus, and a villous stigma: The pericarpium is an oblong legumen: The seeds are fix or more, and kidney-shaped.

Of this genus there is but one species, the fetida, 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 exposed 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; (Dioscorides, 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, (Aristophanes.)