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Show The BRITISH:tHERSB AL. X. Ss <U N= GavE ARS. CATERPILLI SCORPIOIDES. HE floweris papilionaceous. nipped at the extremity. The vexillum is of a roundifh form, turned backat the top, and The ale are of an oval form, and havea fmall appendage. The cy- tina is of the form of a crefcent, and is fplit on the lower part. The'cup is flatted, formedofa finole piece, and lightly divided into five fegments. The feed-veflel islong, rough, and twifted; and the feeds are roundifh. Linnaus places it among the diadelphia decandria; the threads of the flower being ten, and arranged in the fame manneras in the preceding genera: He diflikes the old name /corpioides, andcalls it fcorpiurus. Our peoplecall it caterpillars, from the fhape of the pods, Long-leaved Caterpillars. Scorpioidesfoliis Jongioribus indi BRITISH Wis aN,aA, Sa Na DH SY OM, Meo a (Z yhpr vA The root is long, flender,.yellow, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. The ftalks are round, weak, of a pale green, andtwofeet in length, but not perfectly upright. The leaves are oblong and undivided, obtufe at the ends, and not fo much as notched along the edges: they are of a bluith green. The flowers are placed two together on the tops of very long andflender footftalks rifing from the bofomsns of thee leaves:: theythe y are fmall, a > but of a fine ela yun g ; HERBAL. is, Ms US LLLLERMPS BEBL The. feed-veflel.is hairy, long, flender, and turned or twifted round, andis brown: the feeds are fmall, and alfo brown. It is wild in Spain and Italy, and flowersin July. C. Bauhine calls it Scorpioides Beupleuri folio 2 - Car Ts On sae J. Bauhine, Scorpioid es Siliqua campoide bifpida,: Our‘gardeners, The caterpillar plant. 4 : Neither this, nor the generality of the former {pecies, are diftinguifhed by any particular virtues. They are‘of the pulfe kind; andtheref ore their feeds would atable, if larger, andbetter flavou “hei a red. heir f i r rity o f y e Their fingularity gives thema place in gardens, Ih END of th SEVENTEENTH CLASS; ey te flower is papilionaceous 5 whofe feed-veffel is a regutar, but fmall lecuminous pod; and whofe leaves are placed three on each footftalk. & ? T= form and ftruature of the fower is the fame in this and in the preceding genus, and the difpofition ofits threads the fame. Forthis reafon Linneus arranges thefe with the preceding genera under one andthe fame clafs, the diadelphia decandria, dividing them fromthe reft only by the markof a particular fection; This was neceffary according to his method, which does not admit any part of a plant but the flower andfruit into the confideration ofa claffical diftinction: but in nature the genera are perfectly feparated fromall others, and kept united together bythis fingular character of the leaves growing three together. This is conftant and certain: it does not in all the clafs admit a fingle variation or exception; andit is therefore a proper mark for the diftinction ofa clafs; the fmallnefs of the pod joining to eftablifhir. Inall the courfe of Nature, when carefully obferved and truly followed, there are found marks of the connection, not only of the leffer but greater diftinétions : in this cafe the fame methodis obferved in that refpec as in others. The kidneybean is the genus uniting the leguminous and trifo- liate plants, the leaves in all the fpecies of that genus grow by threes 5 and the feed-veffel is long, large, andofthe proper leguminous kind. SADAS GSAS aeeAEHCSta es of BRITAIN. “hofe of which one or more fpecies ate found naturally wild in this country: G E N Umings TREFOIL T RAF Omi aM HE flower is papilionaceous; the vexillum is turned backwards; the ala are fhort, and the piece; and is fmall, carina is very fhort, and fomewhat broad. The cup is formed of a fingle tubular, and dividedlightly into five fegments at the edge; and it remains with the fruit ; as does alfo and the The feed-veflel is a fhort pod, compofed of a fingle valve; ng it of the fame clafs with the pulfe ; whole clafs, deftroying the receiveddif- era, and making all fpecies of this 4H W |
