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DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Orobus. 
and Orford, Suff. Ray. Woopw. Near Hastings, Sussex, and 
on the west side of <5 Guilford? near Lyd, in Kent. Ray. | Rie 
O/ROBUS. Calyx blunt at the base; the 2 upper 
teeth shorter but more deeply divided: 10 
thread-shaped. — 
sylvat’icus. O, Stems drooping, hairy, branched : leafits 7 to 12 pair. 
* Dicks. b. s.-E. bot, 518—Lightf. 16. at p. 390. 
Stems branched, scored. Leafits, 6 or 7 pair. Bless, red with- 
out, within white, with purple lines. rat Sa compressed. Seeds 
2 or 3. Linn. Stems numerous, trailing, much Ssiched; but 
slightly hairy. Leaves winged, alternate ; leafits oval, or ellip- 
tical, terminated by a point which is an extension of the mid- 
rib; on short hairy leaf-stalks, somewhat alternate, 6 to 12 
pair, without an odd one, but with a sort of beard terminating 
the F cgi leaf-stalk. eat-eth numerous, to 12, on short pe- 
, dicles, crowded, mostly ing one way, on the top of a long 
' paked ait stalk. Stipu Thalf-attow shaped, 2 at the base of 
each general leaf-stalk, smaller than those of the O. tzberosus, 
and terminated by a more acute point. Calyx short, green, 
tinged with red, fringed, somewhat lipped, lips nearly equal, the 
upper | veh 2 teeth, t lowe er with 3, rather lo ope. ieee long 
egum. short, smooth. Mr. Woopw 
Bitter Veeck. Wood Peaseling., Woods, hedges pascal; dry 
rocky places, and banks of Rivers. Teh a es from Penrit 
Brecknock E Cumberland. Ray. Mr. Woon WARD, Below 
Mr. Don. On the he about + a mile below the ao 
Dr. Horz. About Cerrig y Druidion, and Y . hike ne 
bighshire. Mr. Suna May—July. 
tubero’sus. O. Leaves winged, spear-shaped: oo half-arrowe 
shaped, very entire; stem simple, 
* In.1555, during a time of great scarcity, the people about Orford 
in ce. were preserved from perishing by eating the seeds of this plant, 
which grew there in great abundance upon the sea coast, Cows, horses, 
