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brook, at Ford, near Wiveliscomb, Somersetshire, 

 in great plenty, for the course of a mile and more, 

 as well as in other similar situations in that neigh- 

 bourhood. Mr, Thomas Clark, jun,; from whom I 

 received specimens, in July 1825. 



134. 1. 8 from the bottom, read — The curious variety /3, 



138. 1. 1, add — These knobs disappear when the plant 

 comes to perfection. See Fagon's letter to Boccone. 

 Bocc. Recherches et Obs. 12"'o. 100. 



182. 1. 23, reacl—Dalech. Hist 



248. 1. 9 from the bottom, after Merr, Pin, 75. add — Rail 

 Syn, 252. 



272. 1. 5 from the bottom, before O. sylvaticus^ insert — 



O. niger. Black Bitter-vetch. 



Leaves pinnate, of from four to six pair of elliptic- 

 lanceolate leaflets. Stipulas linear-awlshaped, 

 simple, entire. Stem branched, angular, erect. 



O. niger. Linn. Sp. PL \ 028. H. Suec. ed. 2.25 \. Willd. 

 v.S. 1076. ^it. Hort.Kew.ed. 2. V. 4.304. Hook.Scot. 

 p. 2. 267. 



O. n. 418. Hall. Hist. V. 1. 182. 



O. sylvaticus, vicise foliis. Bauh. Pin. 352. 



O. foliis viciae. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 60. 



O. pannonicus secundus. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 230. f. Pann. 

 738. f. append. 



Astragaloides. Dod. Pempt. 55 1 ./. Ger. Em. 1 239./. 



A. altera herbariorum. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 78./. 



In dry mountainous pastures in Scotland, rare. 



In the den of Airly, 12 miles west of Forfar, sparingly, 

 found by Mr. Thomas Drummond. Mr. W. Robertson. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root long and tapering ; sweet, according to Linnaeus. 

 Herb smooth, turning black in drying like 0. tuberosus. 

 Stems several, one and half or two feet high, upright, 

 branched, leafy, angular, not winged. Leaves usually of 

 about five pair of elliptic-oblong, blunt, bristle-pointed, 

 veiny leaflets an inch long, not invariably opposite 3 

 the common stalk very little elongated beyond them. 

 Flower-stalks axillary, rather longer than the leaves, 

 each bearing a cluster, of four or five elegant, blueish- 

 purple, flowers. Legumes blackish, cylindrical. The leaf- 

 lets are represented too small in all the figures above 



