106- DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
505. STYLOSANTHES. Swartz. 
Calix tubulous and very long, bearing the co- 
rolla. Germ beneath the corolla. Loment with 1 
or 2 articulations, hooked. 
Herbaceous; leaves ternate, stipules sheathing, adnate 
to the petiole; bractes ciliate; flowers yellow. 
Species. 1.S. elatior. Swartz. °S. hispida. Mich. Pluk. 
mars, 182. t. 447. f. 7. Ons. Flowers conglomerate 3 or 
4 together, invested by ciliate sheathing bractes; leaves 
sublinear-lanceolate, acute, smooth and naked; stem erect; 
loment indurated, l-seeded. Common from Pennsylva- 
nia to Carolina. Flowers golden yellow. 
ees small tropical genus of 6 species indigenous to Ame- 
rica, with the exception of a single one in India. 
506. GLYCYRRHIZA. L. 
Calix mostly bilabiate, gibbous at the base. . 
Vexillum including the wings and carina, Le- 
Sume subovate or fete compe and ae 
ly hispid, 2 to 6-seeded 
Herbaccous; leaves i stipules enaline; Sowers ca- 
. Pitate, spiked or racemose. 
“sz Srecres. 1. G. lepidota. T.N.-in Fras. Catal PH, 2. p. 
480. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, acute, every where squa- 
_™ulese, under ce covered. with-glandulous atoms; . 
spikes axillary, acute, flowers crowded; Jegume oblong, 
many-seeded, echinate, sete uncinate. Han. Abundant 
_ around St. Louis, where it was first detected by Mr. John 
— ‘Bradbury, F. L. S.; it is also common on the alluvial 
banks of the Missouri to the Mountains, and is in all proba- 
bihty the Liquorice mentioned by Sir A. Mackenzie as in- 
digenous to the Coasts of the North Pacific Ocean. Oxs. 
_.. Roots flagelliform, creeping, and very long; atacand in 
ho inconsiderable degree the taste of lique "Stem 
Ae. 3 to 5 feet hi b; spikes, psiiokeet A wer ; sh, : 
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