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XIV. Scordium maritimum, fraticofam, procumbens, flore cernleo. Cat. p. 66. 
Tab. 110. Fig. 2. 
This Plant has fmall fibers going ftom the Stalks tnto the Sand, fupplying 
the place of Roots. The Stalk isrough, four {qQuare, three or;four Foot long, 
lying on the top of the Earth, at every half Inch’s diftance fending out Leaves, 
two oppofite to one another, and fometimes Branches after the manner 
of other four-(quare ftalk’d Plants. They ate oblong, almoft triangular, 
the Bafe flicking to the Stalk without any Foot-Stalk, from whence it 
decreafés to the point, being indented or fhipt about theedges, hoary of a 
rank {mell, and fomewhat clammy. The Flowers come out ex alis foliovum, 
are blue, {mall, and tetrapetalous, with Stamina inthe middle Aftet thefe 
fucceed a yreat rtumber of finall, black, cornered Seeds, not difcernible 
to the EYye, {ticking to a middle Pillar, covered with long Skins or mém- 
branes, lying under each Leaf. 
It grew among the loofe Sand juft by the Town of Old Harbour. 
Cuap. VI. 
of Herbs that are leguminons, or have 4 papylionaceous Flower. 
4HIS Tribe of Plants is very nunterous in Famdiea, and of 
preat ufe co the Inhabitants, who feed ntuch on the Kinds of 
Beans, Peafe, or Phafeoli hereafter mentioned, © 
They are tobe divided into two Kinds, fach as live fevetal 
a years, which I calf Perennes, arid thofe whith are fown every 
Seafon after Rain, rifeand grow ro their dace maturity it very few moriths, 
if not weeks. "Tis ott thefe, many of which are Rec#i, or gtow erect Wili- 
out climbing, that}the Slaves are fed. 
There are not wanting of this Kind fach as are very large, bédtiiful, 
laGtefcent, cc. and other Kinds very differing from thoféof ss ee 
There js ufe made riot only of the Seeds, bur alfo’ ‘of the Leaves and 
Stalks of thefe Kind of Phafeoli for Provender for Cattle. 
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I. Phafeolus maximus perennis, femine compre(fo, lato, nigris maculis notato. 
Cat.p. 66. Tab. 111. Fig. t. Autre forte des feves de Biet. p- 335- Phaféolus 
Barbadenfis fruticofus feptennii durationis. Plukenet. Almag. p: 291. An pois 
gros oy plats blancs de Bouton. p. 54? The grear Beat. ieee | 
This has a Stalk at coming out of the Earth as big as ories fittle Finger, 
angular, covered with a grayith Bark, turning and Ret its felf about 
any Perch, and rifing to abour feven or ‘eight Foot high, tlten falling, 
the Branches inviegle one another. At about two Inches diftance, they 
fend out Leaves, three always flanding ere on thé ‘fame common, 
Inch long Foot-Stalk, each of them being almeft round, of héar afi Inch 
Diameter, ftanding on very fhort Foot-Stalks; that in the mitiddte, or op- 
pofite to the Foot-Stalk, sane a Petiolus balf an Inch longer than the 
others at Bate. The Flowers ftand feveral together, on an cightli pare of 
an Inch long Foot-Stalk, beitg’ fimalt papylionaccous, re a contorted 
Stylus, and fome Leaves or vtala, of a white and porplifh: cofour, with 
fome green After thefe follows a Pod at firft green, then of a Clay or 
Afh colour without, and white within, crooked, more than two Inches 
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