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Lotus Tetragonolobus. Winged 



Lotus. 



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Generic Character* 



Legume* cylindricum ftriftum. AU furfum longitudinaliter 

 conniventes. Cat. tubulofus. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



LOTUS tetragonolobus leguminibus folitariis membranaceo- 

 quadrangulis, bra&seis ovatis. Linn. Syft. Vegetah- 

 p. 691. Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 91. 



LOTUS ruber filiqua angulofa. Bauh. Pin. 332. 



LOTUS pulcherrima tetragonolobus. Comm. Hort. 91./. 2& 



PI SUM quadratum, the crimfon-bloffom'd or fquare-codded 

 Peai'e. Park. Parad. p. 338. 



A common annual in our gardens, where it has been long 

 cultivated ; is a native of Sicily, and flowers in the open 

 borders in July and Auguft; requires the fame management 

 as other hardy annuals. 



Miller obferves, that it was formerly cultivated as an 

 efculent plant, the green pods being drefled and eaten * s 



peas. 



