DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Spartium. 
Stem with us never nearly upright. Sheaisers with a pencil- 
m4-comered, undivided. Leaves 
quite upright 
Common Milkawort. Pastures and heaths, a i 
une, July.* 
DECANDRIA. 
SPAR’TIUM. Cal. extending downwards; Qe 
lipped : “filaments adhering to the germen: 
summit woolly above. 
S. Leaves in threes, and solitary: branches without scopa’rium. 
prickles 
Curt.—Kniph. 3-Riv. tetr. 63. 1, Genista.-Woodv. 89-Fl. 
dan. 313~Blackw. 244—Sheldr. 7-Dod. 761. 1-Lob. obs. 
531. 1, and ic. ti. 89. 1-Ger. em. 1311. 1—Park, 229. 
1-Ger, 1130. 1~Fuchs, 219-7. B. ie é. 388. 3-Trag. 
961-Lonic. i. 39. 2. 
“pa the = bp beneath the keel with 3, the other with 2 very 
short Retuan. Legumen fringed at the edge with long 
airs.  Wecies aRD. Leaves and rs be ep re — 
Kalyx the upper segment with 2 teeth larger than those of t 
ower, Blass, peetere nearly circular, slightly sexed at a 
tnd; keel, the petals rather hooked, united at the lower edge by 
Ne imertextare r very fine, soft, woolly hairs. Stamens, 4 
long and 6 short. Style bowed almost into a circle, and after 
‘d nnzeus found it to possess the properties of the Senega Rattle. 
: re eto rf neyees Senega) but in an inferior mer Duhamel used 
ses with the desired success. Mem, de Paris, 1740. 
biter, taken in the morning fasting, about 3 ofa pint t daily, promotes ex- 
Bitotation, and is good for a catarrhous cough, I tried at with success. 
Vou} III, Ss 
