60 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



close and thick, in the form of a pyramid, as regular as if 

 cut by art : it has so much the appearance of a young 

 cypress tree, that but for the leaves being of a more lively 

 green, it might at a little distance be mistaken for one. 

 It grows naturally in Carniola, Greece, China, and Japan. 

 The seeds should be sown in autumn, singly, or several 

 together, and divided into separate pots in the spring, 

 when they come up. In autumn, when they ripen their 

 seeds, if other pots are standing pretty near, the seeds 

 will be apt to fall into them, and the self-sown plants will 

 come up the following spring : so that it will be well to 

 keep such pots as will not admit of such an unceremonious 

 visitor at a sufficient distance to secure them from in- 

 trusion. The earth should be kept moderately moist. 



BITTER-VETCH. 



OROBUS. 



LEGUMINOS^. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



French, I'orobe; pois de pigeon [pigeon's pea]. — Italian, orobo; 

 robiglia. 



The Yellow Bitter-Vetch is described by Haller as one 

 of the handsomest of the papilionaceous tribe. It is a 

 native of Siberia, Switzerland, Italy, and the South of 

 France. Spring Bitter-Vetch has a handsome flower, cu- 

 riously shaded with red, purple, and blue, becoming alto- 

 gether a sky-blue before it falls. It grows in the woods 

 in many parts of Europe, and flowers in March and April. 

 The Tuberous Bitter- Vetch, called also heath peas, wood 

 peas, and in French gcsse saiivqge, has also a brilliant 

 flower of red-purple, fading to a blue as it decays. The 

 Highlanders, who call it corr, or cormeille, dry the tu- 

 bercles of the root, and keep them in the mouth to flavour 

 their liquor. They affirmy that they are enabled, by the 



