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Lotus Hirsutus. Hairy Bird's-Foot- 



Trefoil. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Diadelpiiia Decandria. 



Generic Character. 



Legumen cylindricum ftriatum. AI<e furfum longitudinaliter 

 conniventes. Cal. tubulofus. 



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Specific Character and Synonyms. 



LOTUS hirfutus capitulis fubrotupdis, caule ere£to hirto, le- 



guminibus ovatis. Linn. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. 



p. 691. Ait. Kcw. v. 3. p. 93. 

 LOTUS polyceratos frutefcens incana alba, filiquis erectis 



craffioribus et brevioribus re&is. Mori/. Hift. 2. f* 



177./. 2. /. 18./. 14. 

 LOTUS pentaphyllos filiquofus villofus. Bauh. Pin. 332. 



The Lotus hirfutus, according to Linnaeus, is a native 01 

 the South of France, Italy, and the Eaft. 



In mild winters it will bear the open border with us, but it 

 is more generally kept in the greenhoufe, of which indeed it 

 has long had pofieflion, being cultivated, according to Mr. 

 Aiton, in 1683, by Mr. James Sutherland. 



It flowers from June to Auguft. 



Its bloflbrcs are of a white colour, which being con- 

 trailed with the rednefs of the calyx, gives them a pleafmg 

 appearance ,- Casp. Bauh. informs us, that they are purple 

 alio. 



This fhrub will acquire the height of feveral feet; its flowers 

 are ufually fucceeded by feed-vefiels, which in favourable 

 fituations produce perfea feeds, by which the plant is cauly 

 propagated, as alio by cuttings. 



