not use the term as an adjective, but because Messerschmid 

 had constituted a genus under the name of Lathyroides from 

 this plant, and that consequently it should have been written 

 with a capital h, Orobus Lathyroides, denoting" that it was a 

 species of Orobus that had been called a Lathyroides ; just 

 as Anthyllis Erinacea denotes, that the plant had been before 

 called Erinacea by Clusius ; which had it been written 

 erinacea, would have been merely an epithet signifying that 

 it was prickly like a hedge-hog ; or as Rumex Britannica 

 denotes a species of Rumex, supposed to be the herb called 

 by the ancients Britannica, which had it signified British 

 would have been britannicm. We have observed that the 

 error might probably arise from an oversight of Linnaeus 

 himself, because as early as in the twelfth edition of the 

 Systema Vegetabilium, we find it written with a small letter, 

 lathyroides, which we account for in this way ; Linnaeus 

 in the second edition of the Species Plantarum, the first in 

 which he made use of trivial, or, as we now generally call 

 them, specific names, had in all cases used a capital letter for 

 words ending in oides, which being, according to his own 

 rule of using small letters to all adjectives, evidently wrong, 

 he afterwards corrected ; and we suppose that in the general 

 change the present name was inadvertently altered with 

 the rest. 



The Orobus Lathyroides is a hardy perennial, worthy of 

 cultivation for the beauty of its (lowers. Native of Siberia, 

 where it is said to be very corn moil on the open hills and 

 among the herbage. It is easily propagated by parting its 

 roots or by seeds ; yet it is not a plant of very common 

 occurrence in our gardens. Flowers in June. Cultivated 

 by Phillip Miller in 1758. Communicated by Messrs. 

 Chandler and Buckingham from their extensive collection 

 at Vauxhall. 





