216 FLO.RA HISTORICA. 



FRENCH HONEYSUCKLE. Hedysarum 



Coronarium. 



Natural Order Papilionacece ovLeginninosce. A Genus 

 of the Diadelphia Decandiia Class. 



Pales, the pasture's queen, where'er ye stray 

 Pursues your steps delighted, and the path 

 V»'ith living verdure clothes. Around your haunts 

 The laughing Chloris with profusest hand 

 Throws wide her blooms. 



Akenside. 



This species of Hedysarum, which we have so im- 

 properly named after a country that it does not 

 belong to, and after a flower to which it has no 

 resemblance, is a native of Spain, and also of some 

 parts of Italy. It is the Saint-foin of the Spanish 

 fields, affording nourishment to their cattle in the 

 same manner as the Saint-foin and Clover of our 

 pastures assist to support our herds. 



The French call this plant Sainfoin a bouquet 

 and Sainfoin d'Espagne, But this Holy-Hay of 

 the Spaniards does not appear to have been made 

 an object of agricultural experiments in other coun- 

 tries, although its hardy nature and luxr.rious 

 growth is sufficient to have induced the trial. 



In Calabria it grows wild in great luxuriance, 



