400 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



i2^S' /• 2. Rivin. t. 103. Moris, hijl. f, 2. ;. o 

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Wild Liquorice, or Liquorice Vetch. AngUs. 



In woods, but not common, as in Coryton woods, 

 five miles from Edinburgh. Dr. Parfons. %- VII, 



The flalks are two feet long, branched and proftrate : 

 the leaves have four or five pair of oval pinn^^ 

 v/ith an odd one at the end : tJie peduncles are 

 fliorter than the leaves, and arife from their ai^^ 

 bearing a fhort fpike of about 12 pale yellow 

 flowers, fuccceded by eredl, turgid and curved 

 pods, having each two cells, containing eight 

 or ten l<:idncy- fliap'd feeds. 



The leaves have a fweetiih taftc, mix'd with bitter- 

 nefs. An infufion of them has by Ibme been 

 recommended in iupprellions of urine, and for 

 the gravel. 



arcnarius 2 ASTRAGALUS fubcaulefcens procumbensj flo- ■. 

 ribus fubracemofis eredtis, foliis tomentofis. b-p. \ 

 fL 1C69. {Rnii. Synop. p. 326. /. 12./. 3. aim k- 

 gMninihus. bona.) 



Purple Mountain Milkwort. Anglis. 



On dry mountainous paftures, but not very com- 

 mon, as upon the hills in the king's park at 

 Edinburgh, upon the fands of Miijfelburgk, up- 

 on the hill of Mcncreif, near Perth, and in dry 

 ground near Tork-Cafcade, at the feat of the 

 Duke of y^//^^/'s, Rt Blair, &c. 1;. VII. 



The (lalk, together with the peduncle, is from 



tli^ec- 



