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The (lalks are weak, and unable to llipport them- 

 felves without climbing : the leaves are pinnated, 

 the pinna grow alternate upon footftalks, and 

 are compounded of two, three, four or five el- 

 liptical acuxe foliola : the compound leaf is ter- 

 minated with a dichotomous tendril : the flowers 

 are ftraw-color'd, and grow in fnort fpikes : the 

 filiqua are Ihort and linear, and contain about 

 three feeds. 



O C T A N D R I A. 



FOLYGALA. Gen. pL 851. 



Cal. 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus alccformibus, colo- 

 ratis. Legumen obcordatiim, biloculare. 



FOLYGALA fioribus criliatis racemofis, caulibus 

 herbaceis fimplicibus procumbentibus, foliis li- 

 neari-lanceolatis. S'p. pL q86. (Ger. em. ^6^. f. 

 2 J 3, 4. ^ 5^4- /• 5- ^^"■^^- P^^is. t. 32. /. I. 

 bon. Oed. Dtin. t. 516. opt.) 



Milkwort. AngUs. 



In heaths and dry paflures very common, if-. V[. 



'1 he ftalks are about five or fix inches long, feveral 

 arifing from the fame root : the leaves are firm,-. 

 fmooth, entire, and grow alternate upon the 

 ftalks, which are terminated with fpikes of 

 flowers moft commonly blue, but often red, or 

 white : the calyx confiils of five leaves, three of 

 which are fmali and green, tv/o below and one 

 above the Corolla i the other two interniediate 



ones 



