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Show 298 The -BiRSIST a S H, HE RB AL. The are roundith, It is.a wild plant in France among corn, and ture, flowers in July. Manythings have been faid withlittle reafon on the virtues of /entils: experience fhews ‘th nem C. Bauhine calls it Lens vulgaris, Others, Lens major, and Lens minor; for there is no diffe- GPAE falfe. GH I) SC Ss © FH. are two: thefe are large at one end, fmall at the PO 42ufL The root is long, flender, white, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. The ftalks are weak, flender, branched, and of a pale green. The leaves are pinnated in a very regular and beautiful manner: each is compoféd of four or five pairs of pinne, with an oddone at the end; and thefe are fhort, broad, and ferrated at the edges. The flowers ftand fingly on fhort footftalks rifing from the bofoms ofthe Je 3 andthey are fmall, and of a whitifh or purplifh colour, varying in the degree as chance dire¢ts. The feed-veffel is fhort and thick, and the feeds Give Bain NW GOAT S other, and cornered ; fo that they are fuppofed to refemble a ram’s head: but there mutt be fome ftrength of imagination to make out the likenefs, It is wild in the corn-fields ofSpain, and flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Cicer fativum. Tt is celebrated as a promoter of yenery, but with no great reafon. The feeds are ofthe pea kind in nature and qualities, and may beeatenin the fame manner. * ant aife We7 raife the plant, among our other $iimprovements of hufbandry, infields for the food of cattle, Tt is an excellent herb for that purpofe, andfar from exhaufting the land, it mellows it, and prepares it for bearing larger crops of corn. Dine 2§ Ba DTAEIR a yar ; The Theleaves leaves are are bb nated, and of a faint green0 : they npofed of five or more pa sof pinne, with an odd one at the end; and thefe at¢ long, narrow, and har; pointed. £ flowers growin The flowers gr fpikes upon long, fender foorf Iks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves: VET CH. Linnzus places this among the diadelphia decandria; the threads beingdifpofedas inall the preceding genéra, ‘This genus is generally called orobus ; but chat name being appropriated to another, itis beft to-ufe the other term ervam. confiderable to warrant any great enquiry on that head. Narrow-leaved Bitter Vetch. Ervum foliis anguftis. The root is compofed of many flender fibres, The ftalks ate numerous, weak, and trailing, unlefs fupported, The leaves are long and narrow: they are compofed of numerous. pairs of oblong and flender pinna:, and are of a dufky green. The flowers are large and white: they ftand fingly onJong, flender footftalks, rifing from the bofoms of the leaves. The feed-veffel is long, and appears jointed, fwelling out at the places where the feeds lie. It is a native of Italy, and the fouthof France, and flowers-in / 2. Small-flowered Bitter Vetch. Ervum flofeulis minoribus. « The root divides into numerous fibres, and is whitifh. The ftalks are flender, weak, hollow, of a pale green, andhalfa yard Theleaves are large, and of a beautiful green : they are compofed each of fix or more pairs of long and narrowpinnz, with an oddone at the C. Bauhine calls it Orod je Others, Qredus verus, and Orobus. re- er, long, and very {welling of the fee s be or be not the nt writers ; but it is , the virtues being too in- -. Bauhine calls it Orod: Others, Cicer or VII. N RUE. E GC U-R he vexillum is large and oval, and it is turned back at the top lz are oblong. @, and have a kind of ap age at the tips. The carina » andis oblong, and irrecular in fhape. The cupis fhort, tubular, anddithe edge The feed-veffel is long, flen ider, fharp pointed, and knottedat the5 are oblong, and kidney-fhaped. Linnzeus places it am ia aecanadjrias the threads being difpof ed as in the prece pale green colour, VUL ER VY UM, GAL EGA. he ro t is he root 1 fur hed with is |lo; i andfurnif numerous fibres, a he flalks are reund, upright, branched, of a Wis a kindof joints by the fwelling of the feeds. WER fpecies of Jenzill. Cicer vulgare. H EORSB AiL. ple flower is papilionaceous. The vexillum is large, roundifh, flat, and lightly turned back. Dhe ale are thort and obtufe. The carina is very fhort, andterminates in a point. The cupis divided at the edge into five narrow fegments. Thefruit is a long, rounded pod, diftinguithed into VI. HEflower is papilionaceous. The vexillumis large and roundifh. The alz are fmall and obtufe, and the carina is {mall and fharp-pointed. The cup is divided into five narrow fegments The feed-veffel is fhort and fwelled ; and the feeds are roundifh, but cornered; fo that they are fuppoled to reprefent the head of a ram. Linnzus places this, as the preceding, among the diadelphia decandria, making it improperly a Common Chich. GEN We cultivate it for the food ofcattle, U SON Clot BRIER IS Hi rence between thofe but from accident of cul- The feed-veflel is fhort and thick, and the feeds 1 the feeds are Lin | s y thi It is an ingte- GENUS Ai 1 . a at wer } ;, dif;, and ], ten, 2, being the flower ; the threads in decandria e digdelphia the end; and roe f a bright en properly fuprhe of four feet or Tt was at one time in great efteem as a cordial, alexipharmic, and fudorifie ; but it never deferved the praife beftowed uponit, and is now dient in feveral of the old compofitions of the thops. TDACA. with an odd one at they are fmall, and of a pale blue, ftreakedoften with white. The feed-veffels are very long, flender, and Tt is a native of Italy, and flowers in At C. Bauhine calls it G vulgaris 5 an ufe the fame name. i with reafon fallen into neglect, Ss cillam is fhort, of a heart-lik fhape, and turned backat hreufe and convergent upw The carina is fl 7 OOS y ided into two principal parts; the upper one is divided again into aree fegments. The feed-veffel is very long, flender, and flatted, and the top fhort, and p two, andthe u each is‘compofed of fix or eig kes it a fpecies of cor thefe are broad, |
