390 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



water, and make an agreeable fermented liquor 

 with them. Tlicy have a fweet tafle, fomething 

 like the roots of liquorice, and when boiled, we 

 are told, are well flavour'd and nutritive, and in 

 times of fcarcity have ferv'd as a fubflitute for 

 bread. 



fylvaticus 2 OROBUS caulibus decumbentibus hlrfutis ramofis. 

 Lin. Jyft. vat. 485. Sp.pl. 1029. (A£f. Farts. 1706. 

 p. 87. /. 90. ^fig. nojl.) 



Wood-Vetch, or Bitter- Vetch. Anglis. 



Upon dry rocky places, and the banks of rivers, 

 but rare. We obferved it upon the bank of the 

 Clyde.^ near Lanerk^ betv/een the two famous falls 

 of Corry's-Lyn and Bonnatyn^ and in the ifland 

 of Rumt on the bank of a rivulet running dowri 

 a mountain c^iW^d Baikevall. %. VII. 



Many hairy reclining angular ftalks, about a foot 

 high, arife from the fame r6ot, and, as far as wc 

 obferved, unbranched : the leaves grow alter- 

 nate, ten or tv/elve w^on a flalk ; they are pin-j 

 nated, and generally hairy ^ the number of />/»»if I 

 are from feven to eleven pairs, of an oval acute r 

 form, ftanding on fliort pedicles on a hairy rib,! 

 which is not terminated with an odd pinna, but a/ 

 fmall point or beard: the JiipuU grow in pairs,jf 

 fliaped each like half the perpendicular fe(51;ion' 

 of the barb of an arrow : the flowers grow ten 

 or twelve together, in a clofe fpike or clufler, 

 all leaning the fame way, upon a hairy pedun- 

 cle as long as the leaf, and arifing from the air* 



