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GLYCIRRHIZA LEPIDOTA. SILKY-LEAVED 
Liquorice. 
TERI REE EE RE 
Class and Order. 
DiapeLpaia DeEcANDRIA. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. bilabiatus +. Legumen ovatum, compressum. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Guycirrniza lepidota ; foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 
strigosis, spicis axillaribus, leguminibus oblongis poly- 
spermis echinatis: setis uncinatis. ex Nuttall Gen. 
Plant. amer. 2. p. 106. 
Grycirruiza lepidota ; foliolis oblongis acutis sericeo-villosis, 
leguminibus racemosis oblongis hispidis. Pursh Fi. am. 
Sept. 2. p. 480. 
Lyiquiritia lepidota. Fraser’s Catal. 1813. 
We are informed by Mr. Nurraxt that this plant was first 
discovered by Mr. Joun Brapzury in the environs of St. Louis, 
where it grows abundantly (as it does also on the alluvial 
banks of the Missouri to the mountains); and that it is, in all 
probability, the Liquorice mentioned by Sir A. Mackenzie, 
as indigenous to the coasts of the North Pacific Ocean ; the 
roots being flagellitorm, very long, and possessing in no 
Mceous.derable degree the taste of liquorice. A hardy peren- 
nial. Flowers in July and August. Communicated by our 
friend Ayrmer B. Lampert, Esq. from his collection at 
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