228 REMARKS on THE 
paper is to affift the farmer, as well as the naturalift, by* 
pointing out the plant, and defcribing it fo, that it may: 
be diftinguifhed, with certainty, from all others. The- 
Eaftern-Shore-bean, * fo called from its being firft.cultivat-. 
ed there, is found in all parts of Virginia and Carolina ;- 
upon all forts of lands, high and Jow, except where they 
are too wet. It has been miftaken, by fome, for the com-. 
mon.tare, or partridge-pea ; to which it bears fome refem-. 
blance, but is not the fame; it belongs to a different clafs - 
of plants, In defcribing this -plant-I fhall, firft, confider- 
the lovers of. fcience, and give a botanical defcription, in- 
fuch terms as are moft familiar to them, adding after- 
wards, for the farmer, a defcription and explanation, in- 
Englifh, as plain and eafy as I poffibly can. Being fhew-- 
ed a row of thefe plants, in-September (produced from - 
feed procured by a neighbouring gentleman from the place 
of cultivation) fown .iaa drill, and then flowering and» 
filling their pods, I immediately difcovered it to bea plant 
that I had long been acquainted with, having collected, . 
and fent it, with many others, before the war, to a profef- 
for of one of the European univerfities. Upon looking . 
into my botanical catalogue, I find it defcribed, and arrang- 
ed in the Decandria, or tenth clafs of Linnzus; in the- 
Monogynia, or firft order of that clais; in the genus, 
Caffia; and it is that particular {pecies to which he has giv- 
en the fpecific name Chamecrifta, Door Hill,. in his 
Eden, page 54, calls it Golden-Caflia, and has exhibited a 
good engraving of it, in his 5th plate, fig. 5. It ismen- 
tioned by Gronovius (in the colleion made by the late 
Mr. Clayton of Virginia), in his Flora Virginica, fol. 64. 
Caffia foliolis multyugatis, &c. It has been noticed by 
feveral other authors. In my catalogue it ftands thus : 
Caffia 
® Called alfo the Magotty-Bay-bean. 
