626 | DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Ornithopus. 
War. 2. Seeds 5, 6, or 7, rarely 4.. Stem lower, extremely 
branched. These differences could not proceed from luxuriance 
of soil, as the spot where it grew was a remarkably dry gravel. 
Near Cambridge. Mr. Woopwarp. 
hirsu’tum. E, Fruit-stalks many-flowered : seeds 2, globular. 
Dicks. b. s.—Curt.-Dod. 542. 3-Eob. obs. 522. 2, and it. ii. 
76. 1-—Ger. em. 1228—Park. 1069-Riv. tetr. 53, Cracca 
minor.—F. B, ii, 315. 1—Fl. dan. 639. 
Stems weak, mueh prapcheds angular, scored, Leaf-scales, 
the lower with 2 or 3 awl. shaped te ee sae upper awl-shaped, 
entire. Leafits ce strap-sha 12 pair, somewhat 
alternate, terminated by a branch . vende. Fruit-stalks axil- 
lary, shorter but not so slender as in the E. tetraspermum. 
ers 2, 3) OF 4, on very short pedicles; when 2, separate ; if 3, 
2 of them together ; if 4 in pairs. Legum. hairy. Woopward- 
Plant smooth, except the legumens. Flowers 2 to 7, pale purples 
er white. Both in this and the preceding species the summit 1s 
bearded underneath. 
Wild Tare. Tine Tare. nets -podded Tare. Sandy corn- 
fields and meadows.” 
ORNITHOPUS. Seed-vess. cylindrica, but joint+ 
ed and crooked. 
perpusil’lus.O, Leaves winged : oe bowed in, much larger than 
the winged flow er-scale. 
E. a 369—Kuniph. 7-Dod. 544—Lob. obs. 527. 2, and ic. ii. 
1. 2—Ger.em. 1241. 3—Park, 1092. 1-H. ox. ii. 10. 13 
es. adv. 403. 1, and ie. ii, D4. 1—Ger. em. 1241. 4- 
Park. 1092. 1, f chap. 28... 
h an odd one smaller. Flowers 1 to 5y ter- 
omen a le ate of a2 standard reddish white, with 
red lines. : 
are 
» marked with By lines, the claw 
lowish oxi take white, with a reddish tinge ; Aee/ pale 
orses, cows, goats, and sheep eat it. Linn, _In wet seasons whole 
fislds be corn have been overpowered and wholly desteoyedt bys it 
