444 PIADELPHIA. 



therto mistaken species are removed to their 

 proper places. See FL Brit. 



*;;5* f^rryj^jjie imperfect Iif divided into two 

 ccj'::, always, as in all the following, without 

 thechafapter of the preceding: sections. This 

 js composed of the singular E/serrz/ /a, known 

 by its dcabh^ serrated fruit, of which there 

 is only one species ; the FJiaca^ Jacq. Ic, 

 Har. t. 151 ; and the vast gepus of yistra- 

 galtfs, Engl. Bot. f. 274, &c., lately illus- 

 trated in a splendid work by .an able French 

 botanist, Decandolle. 



**** Legume icith scarcelij more than one 

 seed. OF this P5or«/ea, CaivI. Mag. t. (^Grt; 

 the curious Stijlosanthes of vSwartz; the Hallia 

 of Thunberg; and our own Trifolinm, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 1770, 1048—1050, are examples. 

 The last genus, one of the most natural as 

 to habit and qualities, is extremely untracta- 

 ble with respect to botanical characters. Some 

 species, t. 1047? 1340, 17®? have many 

 seeds in each pod ; some have not even the 

 capitate inflorescence made a part of the ge- 

 neric definition. The difficulty is lessened by 

 establishing Meliloiu^ as a genus, with Ju^- 



