[ U98 ] 



Glycine Apios. Tuberous-Rooted 



Glycine. 



»» $ » f » » » » $ » $$$$$ 



CJafs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Char a tier. 

 Calyx 2-labiatus. Corolla carina apice vexillum refle&ens. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



GLYCINE Apios ; foliis impari-pinnatis : foliolis ovato- 

 lanceolatis glabris feptenatis, racemis ovatis pe- 

 dunculatis, leguminibus bilocularibus. 



GLYCINE Apios. Sp. PI. 1025. Syji. Veg. 660. Reich. 3. 

 455. Sp. PL 3. 1066. Hort.Kew.%. 35. Martyn 

 Mill. Dift. n. 9. Michaux Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 63. 



GLYCINE raclice tuberoia. Hort. Cliff. 365. Gron. Virg. 



Ap 107 "* 



APIOS americana. Corn. Canad. 200. Stiffer Bot. 29. Rati 



ASTRAGALUS perennis fpicatus americanus, fcandens cau- 

 libus, radice tuberofa. Mori/. Hiji. 2. p. 102. f. 2* 



V ; • ■ '• 9-/. I- 



^rgmian Earth-Nuts. Park. Theat. 1062. /. 9. 



Glycine, as it now flands, certainly contains an aflemblage 

 °f feveral diftinB genera; but as a partial reform is apt to in- 

 creafe the confufion, we leave this as we found it, though a 

 Ve 7 doubtful fpecies from the time of Linn^us himfelf. 



Js confidered as a hardy perennial, but it mould be re- 

 membered that, being a native of the fbuthern ftates of North- 

 America, Carolina, and Virginia, it is liable to be deftroyed 

 b Y our winters, unlefs the roots are protected from the froft by 

 a covering of tan or mulch, as recommended by Miller, who 

 obferves, that when planted againft a fouthern wall, and pro- 

 perly fupported, it will rife ten feet high, and flower abundantly 

 J n 1 Auguft and September. Is propagated by its tuberous roots, 

 *hicb are fweet and edible. Drawn at Mr. Salisbury's Bo> 

 Unic Garden, Brompton. 



