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~CoronitLa Varta. Purpte Coronitia, 
TEAR EIE IE Hea aes cede ak ae ae ae ae ale 
 Clafs and Order. 
- Diapétpnta DecanprRia, 
ee Generic Charaéfer. : 
Cal. 2-labiatus: 4: dentibus fuperioribus connatis. Vesillum 
vix alis longius. Legumen ifthmis interceptum. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
CORONILLA varia herbacea, leguminibus ere€tis teretibus 
torofis numerofis, foliolis plurimis glabris, — 
Linu. Sy/}. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p.670. Ait. 
Kew. v. 3. p. 59. 5 Be 
- SECURIDACA dumetorum major, flore vario, filiquis artis 
—a culatis. Baub, Pin. p. 349. 
SECURIDACA II. altera fpecies. Cluj. Hift. 2. cexxxvijs 
The greater joynted Hatchet Vetch. Park. Theat. p- 1088. 
Crustus, in his work above referred to; informs us that — 
he found this plant growing wild in various parts of Germany, - 
_ In meadows, fields, and by road fides, that it flowered in June, 
_tometimes the whole fummer through, and ripéned its feeds in 
July and Auguft ; the bloffoms-he found fubje& to mich vas 
‘Tiation of colour, being either deep purple, whitifh, or even — 
wholly white: Cas. Baunine notices another variety, Mm 
Which the alz are white. and the roftrum purple; this variety, 
which we have had the honour to receive from the Earl of i 
Ecre MONT is the moft defirable one to cultivate in gardens, — 
as If 1s more ornamental than the one wholly purple, moft 
commonly met with in the nurferies, and correfponds alfo 
_ better with its name of varia; it is to be noted however that ~ 
_ this variety of colour exifts only in the young bloffoms. 
_ The Coronilla varia is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous 
_ Plant, climbing, if fupported, to the height of four or five feet, | 
_ otherwife {preading widely on the ground, and frequently ine — 
juring lefs robuft plants growing near it; on this account, as na 
well as from its having powerfully creeping roots whereby it 
greatly increafes, though a pretty plant, and flowering during — 
moft of the fummer, it is not to be introduced without caul> 
tion, and is rather to be placed in the fhrubbery, or outfkirts — 
of the garden, than in the flower border. 7 Se 
It will grow in any foil or fituation, but bloffoms and feeds 
moft freely in a foil moderately dry. © ae eee 
Parkinson in his Theater of Plants, mentions its being 
cultivated, as an ornamental plant. Att. Kew: (#7 
____ Its bitternefs, will be an objeétion to its being cultivated fi 
the ule of cattle, for which purpofe it has been recommer 
