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Show — 282 The BRAT ISH' regucompofed of three or four pairs of pinna: The pods are large and flender, and ‘the! feeds are roundifh. indented pointed, of a deep green, and not at-all at the edges. and many other places among bufhes. It Powers in July. Ray calls it Vicia lathyrifc thyroides noftras, Merret, Lath rubro mixtus. It is the only fpecies of chyinen we have wild. from the end. larly placed, witha tendril growing , and fharpThe pinne are oblong, narrow mixed colour, partly red and partly bluc. OREIGN odL Long-leaved Clymenum. Clymenum foliis longioribus. Ly0ul 2 The root is compofed of numerous flender fibres, connected to a fmall head. The ftalk is weak, flatted, and of a pale green, very flightly edged; and, when tolerably fupported, it will grow to four feet high. : The leaves ftand thick upon it, and are pinnated : each is compofed ofthree or four pairs of very fine, long, and narrow pinnz ; which are fharp pointed, not at all dentated at the edges, Nia Goa SPECIES. and of a beautiful pale green: the rib on which thefe ftand is terminated by a long fine tendril, The flowers grow from the bofoms of the leaves on long flender footftalks; and theyare large and purple. The feed-veffel is long and flender, andthe feeds are roundifh and brown. It is a native ofItaly, and flowers in July. Morifon calls it La 1 i leptomas crolobus femine rotundo. Others, ClymenumItalorum. (Ug: S The cupis of a bell- like fhape, andis divided into five irregular fegments at the edge: the two upper ones are fhort, and the fingle under one is very long. The podis oblong and rounded. ‘Theleaves are placedin pairs upon the ftalk, and are of a three-cornered fhape. This is a very fingular genus: there is but one known fpecies of it, and that is a native ofBritain. We are unhappyin wanting an Englifh generical name for it, for that ofyel/ow vetchling feems to ttfer to another genus. As I have a diflike to inventing new names, I fhall advife the ftudent to uf the Latin one aphaca. Linnzus places this among the diadelpbia decandria; the ftamina being ten, and formedinto parcels, nine in one, and a fingle one in the other: but he confoundsit, among, feveral other genera, with the lathyrus. He does not allow the leaves of this plant to be properly fuch, but only a kind of ftipula, fach as others of the pea and lathyrus kind have upon the ftalk, ac the places where the properleaves'rife. But this is a forced thought. The leaves areas properly and perfectly leaves as thofe of any other plant ; and their great fingularity perfectly diftinguifhes the genus fromall others of the*papilionaceous leguminous clafs. rife tendrils ; but the plant is low, and tolerably {trong ; fo that it wants themlefS than many othet kinds. The flowers are fupported fingly on flender footftalks, and they are moderately large and yellow. The pod is oblong,and the feeds are roundifh. Tt is found in many parts of England on dry is not at all branched: it is round, almoft upright, and not more than a foot high. The leaves are numerous, and they are very fingular: they areiof a triangular figure, broad, fharp-pointed, and terminated by two points at hilly paftures, and flowers in Auguft. yellowith green. From the bofoms of thefe there againft epileptic diforders; but there is no good authority for crediting it. the corners of the bafe: they ftand two together at the joints, and are of a pale and fomewhat cc Bauhine calls ir Vicia lutea foliis convol lb minoris. DC ¢ Vv. ER tt HE flower is compofedof four petals, and is of the papilionaceous kind, The vexillum is of an oval figure, and has a very long bottom furrounding the rudiment of the fruit :: the top of it is nipped and pointed, the fides turn oe back, and there is a : line of :an elevated formf running gddown theé whole length of the back of it. The ala are oblong, ftrait, and fomewhat heart-fafhioned ; and they as Di ; bs y have long bottoms. The carina is fhorter than the ala: it has alfo an oblong bottom, whichis divided into two parts, The pod is long, and of a tough fubftance, and is terminated bya point: the feeds areround. ‘The leaves are pinnated, and compofed of numerous pairs; and they have not the bluith colour, which is almoft univerfal among the pea kind, and common to moft of the lathyri. Linnzeus places this among the diadelpbia decandria; the threads in the flower being ten, in two affortments. But he joins with it the bean, among fome other equally different plants. In vindication of this he fays, that, having repeatedly examined and comparedthe flowers of the vetch and bean, there appeared to him no effential difference: fo that, upon their fimilitude, he makes the bean a fpecies of verch, not a diftinét genus. That difference, which is not feen in the Mower, is evident in the pod and feeds of thefe plants : and in Nature no two genera of this clals are more perfectly feparated. This author fays, that, in the | minous tribe, the fhape ofthe fruit alone is not to determine a genus to be diftinét. But thefe are arbitrary words. Fancy may dictate laws in this cafe, but Nature has eftablifhed none. It is certain that the difference of the fruit is a fufficient mark for the diftinétion of genera among the leguminous plants; and thefe are properly feparate genera it is therefore we do not include the bean among the vetch kind, but fhall treat only of verches properly fo called under this head. BRI TIS H 1. The Common Tare. LL0.14 obtufe. The carina is broad, of a half-round fhape, and fplit in the middle. The ftalk rifes ufually fingle, and frequeatly Voie, Riad Vicia vulgaris fativa femine nigricante. HE flower is of the papilionaceous form, and lis compofed of four petals. The vexillum is large, nipp’d at the extremity, and turned back at the top and fides. The ale are fhort, crooked, and The toot is long; flender, and furnifhed with manyfibres. U N Davis FON... BaP AC a Aphaca. PC: 40.16 kd HIETRABIA sh; IV. YELLOW VETCHLING, Yellow Vetchling. ABARALSE HW SHH? Gio We have it in the neighbourhood of London, peThe flowers are placed onlong, flender fevedicles rifing from the bofoms ofthe leaves, another ral of them ftanding in a row one over and of a on eachpedicle ; and they are large, PD Ly fsa.0 N The A ER BA Le Others, Apbaca. The feeds of the apbaca are faid to be ufeful The root is compofed of numerous, long, thick, and irregular fibres. The ftalks are numerous, round, weak, and of a pale green: they ftand irregularly, and are fcarce able to keep themfelves up without fupports. The leaves are very numerous, long, and narrow: they are pinnated, but without an oddleaf at the end, a tendril growing in its place: each is compofed of fix or eight pairs of pinnae; and they are of a dufky green, and fomewhat hairy. The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves, ufually two together, fupported on v fhort footitalks: they are large, and of a mix’d red and purple colour. The pods are large, long, and pointed: they ftand ufually pointing upwards: the feeds are numerous, round, and naturally blackifh. It is common wild in the corn-fields of Italy» and is in our country alfo a native, but not fo common. “I have feen it where there were no marks of the feed ever having been brought to the place, in our northern counties ; and it is alfo frequent wildin Ireland. C. Batihine calls it Vicia vulgaris fativa femine nigro. He diftinguifhes as a diftin&t fpecies the verch with whitifh feeds, and many authors follow him ; but this is only a variety. 2. Great ButhVicia pinnis ovatis The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with many thick and ftragelingfibres. The ftalk is lender, weak, andof a pale green: S P Bi€ Tf Bs: it is not able to fupport itfelf without climbing, but, when bufhes are near it, will rife to four or five feet in height, The leaves are numerous, and placed irregularly: they are very beautifully pinnated, each being compofed of feven, eight, or more pairs of pinna:, which are of an oval form, and frefh green colour. A tendril ftands in the place of an oddleaf at the end of eachrib, The flowers are large, and ofa beautiful bright red, ftriped with a deeper red, or with a pale purple: they ftand in clufters, fix or more together, and have fhort footftalks, The pods are fmall: they are fhort and comprefied ; and the feeds are blackith, and nearly round. It is common in thickets, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Vicia maxima Dumetorum, Others, Vicia fepium perennis. It is fometimes feen with white flowers, but very rarely. 3. Great Buth-Vetch withfhort pinnz, Vicia pinnis brevioribus obtufis floribus numerof: The root is compofed of numerous, long, thick fibres. The ftalk is weak, but very long: when there is a fufficient fupport of bufhes, it often grows to fix feet. The leaves are pinnated, and each has eight or more’pairs: thefe are fhort, obtufe, andof a deep green colour. The flowers grow in tufts with fhort footftalks, and are throughout of dull purplith colour. The pods are fhort and thick; each contains about fix feeds, which very much refemble thofe of the commontare. It is found in thickets and among bufhes in our northern counties ; but it is not common, a Ray |