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Show BERLIN 1 SH Gok Theo PROUT 1S°H HIE'R'B AL. HE) R' Bi AcL es Dy EViaeSiAl Oud Now US XU. sok BR litte Sie 1. Liquorice Vetch. GCG bf BIRDSFOOT. 2. Little Purple Glaux, wv exigua incana purpurea, Glauxprocumbensfiliquis majoribus. OsROMTE HO PO DIU M. 2 flower is compofed of four petals, an d is of the papilionaceous kind. The vexillumis 1 and {maller tha ll, and cordated or heart fafhioned at-the top. The ale are oval, leaf, divided li ‘The carinais very, fmall and flatted.. The cup is formed ofa fingle pod is long, fle feements at the edge, andit remains: whenthe flower is fallen... The jointed, ; the threads in the flower be: amongthe diadel, Linnaus places e {ortments, nine joining together in a body, andthe ot cle; and the pods bei genus placed onone r Several flowers. are. in this to the foot ofa {mall bird ; whence the nan femb! fincular form, hav: f fhortens it, andv The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with many fibres. The ftalks are numerous, andof a pale green: they {pread themfelves in a circular manner, and do not rife much above the ground. The leaves are very large, pinnated, and of a le green: eachis compofedof five or fix pairs pa ale| of 12 arger oval pinnz, with an odd one at the end 5 and jthey are fharppointed. rifing in the The flowers grow on foorftalks yellow. bofoms of the leaves, and are of af The feed-veffels are long, flender, and grow feveral in a clufter: they are of a brown colour, and contain numerous feeds. It is commonin thickets at the foot of hills, DIVISION purp! purpie The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with a few fimall fibres, The ftalks are numerous, weak, and four inches long. Theleaves are placed irregularly on them, and are long and pinnated : each is compofed of fix i pairs of pinnze; which are {mall, fhort, ftands an odd one at the end. The flowers are placed in clufters on flender footftal and they are of a bright purple. The feed-veffels are fhort and {welled. It is found in dry, hilly paftures, and flowers in July. purpurea montana nofRay calls it Gl, and flowers in Auguft. tras. a fylveftris floriC. Bauhine calls it Glycy legumis. Others, Gi bus Iuteo palle, There i gpinion that thefe plants encreafe milk in the of nurfés ; but it is not fupported on any goodauthority. nofa, and Ajtragalus luteus. ance. The pods little crooked «8 Bok Gah Bis; D 1 Vics f OrN A. FO RET GN’ The leaves on thefe are numerous, andplaced irregularly: they are pinnated in the fame manner as thofe from the root, and are of a pale Spanifh Milkwort. y paftur abounds wit (S\PypE Col 53 Glaux capitulis imbrice The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with a few fibres. The firft leaves are numerous, and beautifully pinnated : they are compofed each of ten or twelve pairs of {mall oval pinnz, with an odd one at the end. The ftalks rife among thefe; and are numerous, fmall, and not much branched: they are fix or eight inches in length, but ufually lie in green, The yers are hick, oval heads upon the ftalks:: they as low. The feed-veflel is fhort, and the are fmall. It is frequent in Spain and Italy, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Ciceri /y Others, G Uifpanica, and Glaux Diofcor part uponthe ground. foot. A Cent nl) The hef : . e of the f on long Cour Neus ©.01C Kis O.4NQ-O S XIV. MILKWORT,. -BoaR HE “ACD: PGiot es: HE. flower is compofed offour petals, andis of the papilionaceous kind. The vexillumis oblong, compreffed, reflex, and dented at the end. The ala are extremely fhort, ftrait, and narrow. Thecarinais fhort, compreffed, and {plit along the bottom. The cup is formed of a fingle leaf, divided into five pointed fegments, and remains when the floweris fallen, The podis fhort, andconfifts only ofafingle cell. Linneus places this among the diadelpbia decandrias thethreads in the fower being ten, and formed into two affortments, ninein one body, andafingle one feparate from them. , not allowingit to be a diftinét genus. But the pods fhew a mabedy He joins this with the nifeft cenerical difference ; thofe of the dedyfarum being compofed of feveral joints, and this of the onob is being fingle. DIVISION BRET TS Common Cockthead. Onobrychis vulgaris. The root is long: it penetrates very deep into the earth, and is furnifhed with numerous fibres. : genus: but theydi tufe, and that of the ¢ XV, No XXX. oP ee 7'E S, The ftalks are round, ftriated, of a pale green, weak, anda foot anda half high. The leaves are regularly pinnated : each is compofed of fix or eight pairs ofpinna, with an odd one at the end; and thefe are oblong, nare row, fharp-pointed, and of a frefh green. 41 The |