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420 ORD. XXIV, Papilionacce. 
GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA. COMMON LIQUORICE. 
SYNONYMA, Glycyrrhiza. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Glycyrrhiza 
vulgaris. Gerard. Emac. p. 1302. Raii. Hist. p. 910. Synop. p. 
324. Glycyrrhiza siliquosa vulgaris. Park. Theat. p. 1098. 
Glycyrrhiza radice repente, &c. J. Bauh. Hist, ii.p.328. Gly- 
cyrrhiza siliquosa vel germanica. Bauh. Pin. p. 352. Hist. Oxon. 
v. ti. p. 89. » Conf. Pallas. Reise durchs Russ. Reich. T. i. p. 498. 
m. 120.  Yavweerga et Tavavegita Greecorum. 
Class Diadelphia. Ord. Decandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 882. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 2-labiatus: 4. Legumen ovatum, compressum. 
Sp. Ch. G. leguminibus glabris, stipulis nullis, foliclo impari 
petiolato. 
THE root is perennial, long, round, succulent, tough, running 
to a considerable extent, externally brown, internally yellow, and 
of a sweet taste: the stalks are erect, strong, herbaceous, striated, 
garnished with few branches, and usually rise four or five feet in 
height: the leaves are pinnated, alternate, composed of several pairs 
of pinne, with an odd one at the end: the leafits are ovate, blunt, 
veined, of a pale green colour, and stand upon short footstalks : 
the flowers are of the papilionaceous kind, of a purplish colour, 
and appear in long spikes arising from the axilla of the leaves: 
the calyx is persistent, tubular, cut obliquely into two lips, and 
divided into narrow pointed segments: the corolla consists of a 
vexillum, which is erect, lance-shaped, concave, obtuse; two ale, 
which are oblong, obtuse, and jarger than the carina, which is 
about the length of the calyx: the filaments are ten, nine of 
which are joined at the base, and all furnished with simple 
roundish anthere: the germen is shorter than the calyx, and is 
