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of it : the flowers are while, flriated with purple 

 veins ; the apex of the carina is a bright purple : 

 the calyx is hairy and rcddifh : the pods are hardly 

 an inch long, comprelTed and fmooth, and con- 

 tain about three feeds. 

 TJie whole plant has a difagreeable bitter tafle. 



LATHYRUS. Gen. pL 872. 



Stylus planus, fupra villofus, fuperne latior. Cal, 

 lacinias fuperiores 2 brevioics. 



LATHYRUS ptdunculis multifioris, cirrhis di- 

 phylljis fimplicifTimis, foliolis lanceolatis. Sp. pi. 

 1033. {Ger. em. 1231./. 6. Rivin. t. 43 Bauh. 

 hijt. 2. p. 304. /. 304. Moris, hijt. f. 2. t.2.f. 

 2. Qed. Dan. t. 527. opt.) 



Yellow Vetchling, l\'ire-everlafting. Anglis. 



In meadows and paftures, where the foil is moift, 

 both in the highlands and lo^vlands. "y-. N\\, 

 VIII. 



The ftalks are branched, quadrangular, a cubit 

 long or more, weak, and unable to fupport them- 

 ieives : the tendrils are generally fingle, but often 

 trifid, fubtended by one pair of oval-lanceolate 

 pinn^., which have three nerves, and are moll 

 commonly a little downy : xh^fiipuU are haftate, 

 and as large as the pinnae : the floral flialk is axil- 

 lary, and bears a fpike of eight or ten yellow 

 flowers : the pods are iliort, broadiih, and a lit- 

 tie curv'd : the feeds round and yellowifli. 



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