stearic Late elas 
AntHyLis Erinacza.. Pricky - 
ANTHYLLIS, _ oa 
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Cla/s and Order, ea 
DiaperpHia, DecanDRia. 
Generic Charaéfer. 
- Cal. ventricofus. Legumen fubrotundum te&tum; = 
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ANTHYLLIS Erinacea; fruticofa fpinofa foliis fimplicibus. 
Pee _. Sp. Pl. 1014. Reich. 3. 437- Hort. Kew. 3. 
— p. 26. Martyn Mill. Did. n. 15. Bot. Rep. 
. t. 15. Desf. Atl. 2. p. 152. ? 
- GENISTA fpartium fpinofum ; foliis Lenticule, floribus ex, _ 
- cruleo purpurafcentibus. Baub, Pin. 394. — 
ERINACEA, Clu/. Hift. 1. p. 107. Hifp. 214. = 
| Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
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A native of Valencia and Morocco. We can fympathife 
with Crusrus in the fenfations he muft have experienced, 
on firft difcovering this truly elegant little fhrub, at that 
time totally unknown to every other Botanift. .. 
o- ah finding his little beauty, armed at all points againft his 
Invading gripe, whilft it deferred his poffeffion, muft have 
Prolonged his pleafure, and added to the value of his prize ; 
well might he exultingly ftyle it “ plane nova et tota elegans*.” 
Ciusius gave it the name of Erinacea from the vulgar 
appellation of the inhabitants Erixo, which fignifies a hedge- 
g- Linnaus confidered it as a fpecies of ANTHYLLIS, 
with which it agrees in the form of its flower, but in habit is 
Certainly widely different from moft of its congeners, _ 
