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I fupportcd on pedicles than thofe of the preced- 



ing fpccies : the flowers are pendulous. 

 It has been proved, by fowing the feeds, to be a 

 diftinft fpecies from the foregoing, but in the 

 cultivated ftate was obferved to produce from 12 

 to 13 flowers in a duller on each common pe- 

 duncle. 



LOTUS. Gen. pi 879. 



Legumen cylindricum, fl:ri<5lum. AU furfum longi- 



tudinaliter connlvens. Calyx tubulofus. 



cornkulatas ^^TUS capitulis depreflis, caulibus^decumben- 

 j^ tibus, leguminibus cyhndricis patentibus. Sp.pL 



1092. (Ger. em. 1190./. 5. Rivin. t. 76. Moris, 

 hift.J. 2./. 18./. io£ff II.; 

 Bird's-foot Trefoil. AngUs. 

 Bar-a'-mhilfein. Gaulis. 

 In meadows and paftures common. %. VI-VIII» 



The ftalks vary in length from fix inches to a 

 cubit, and are generally profl:rate, but fometimes 

 I nearly ered : the leaves are ternate, and com- 



monly of an oval-lanceolate form, but fometimes 

 roundifli, and in other varieties narrow and al- 

 moft linear : ihtftipuU grow in pairs, oval and 

 acuminated, much like the leaves ; the pedun- 

 cles are axillary, and bear a coronet of four or 

 five yellow flowers : the vexillum is nearly oval, 

 plaited, eredl, ftreaked with red lines, or ever, 

 quite red before it opens, and (lands on a pedi ^ 



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