38 B DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Many unbranched ftalks arife from the fame root, 

 lo or 12 inches high : the leaves are downy; the 

 radical ones for the moft part fimple, and either 

 lanceolate or obtuiely elliptical, with long foot- 

 ftalks, to which a fpurious pimja is fometimes 

 annexed : the ftalk-leaves are compound, having 

 three or four pairs of oval-lanceolate ^;«;7^, the 

 fmalleft at the bafe of the rib, with an odd ob- 

 tufe oval and larger one at the end : the upper 

 leaves have five or fix pair of pinn^^ which are 

 all equal : the two Bra^ea\ or floral leaves, are, 

 either digitate or trifid, their fegments lanceo- 

 late : the flowers are commonly yellow, but are 

 fometimes feen red, or whitifii •, they grow in 2 

 double head or duller at the top of the fl:alks : 

 the calyx is hairy and inflated : the carina ov keel 

 of the flower is reddifh at the apex : the anther a. 

 fl:and on fine pedicles : the pod is likev/ife fi.ip- 

 portcd by a Ihort pedicle, and contains one ktd. 



I'he plant is fuppofed to have an aftringent quality; 

 and is fcarcely ever eaten by cattle. 



OROBUS. Gen.pJ. 871. 

 Stylus linearis. Cal. bafi obtufus, laciniis fuperiori- 

 bus profundioribus, brevloribus. 

 tHlevofusi. OROBUS foliis pinnatis lanceolatis, fl:ipulis feml- 

 fagittatis integeriimis, caule fimplici. Sp>. pi 

 1028. {Ger. m. 1237./. 2- Moris, hift. f. 2./ 

 21./. '2^: ordinis inedii ad dextram. Thai, hare- 7 

 /. I. Rivin. t. 59. Sihbald. Scot, illiiji. p. n./. i 

 Lqcs, PruJ/'. 138. /. 37. h?}a.) 



Wood 



