GLY 



OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



GLY 



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tip ovate, small, bent downwards ; keel linear, sickle-shaped, 

 bent upwards ; at the tip pressing the banner upwards, ob- 

 tuse, towards the tip broader. Stamina: filamenta diadel- 

 phous, (simple, and nine-cleft,) only a little divided at the tip, 

 rolled back; antheree simple. Pistil: germen oblong ; style 

 cylindric, rolled back in a spiral ; stigma obtuse. Pericarp : 

 legume oblong. Seeds: kidney-form. ESSENTIAL CHA- 

 RACTER. Calix: two-lipped. Corolla : the keel turning back 

 the banner at the tip. The species are, 



1. Glycine Subterranea. Procumbent Glycine. Leaves 

 ternate, radical ; stalks procumbent, flexuose ; peduncles 

 two-flowered; root annual; stalks several, a span in length, 

 very rigid, close to the ground, 6r descending to it, round, 

 hairy, unbranched ; stipules two, lateral, permanent, very 

 shortly peltate, ovate, quite entire, very small, hairy, flat; 

 partial stipules to each lateral leaflet, solitary; to the middle 

 one, two oblong, smooth, sessile, upright, concave ; flowers 

 upright; corolla pale yellow; banner obovate, streaked, up- 

 right; wings very blunt, as long as the banner, spread out; 

 keel as long as the wings, blunt. As soon as this plant is 

 out of flower, the peduncle perforates the earth, like the 

 Trifolium Sublerraneum, and Arachis Hypogaa, and the 

 seeds ripen under ground. It is a native of Brazil and 

 Surinam, and is common on the coast of Africa. In Suri- 

 nam, it is called yobbe-gobbe, and being planted in a sandy 

 soil, with the addition of a little clay, bears abundance of 

 fruit, which is a welcome repast to the inhabitants, who boil 

 it before it becomes ripe, like green peas. 



2. Glycine Monoica ; Pale-flowered Glycine. Leaves ter- 

 nate, almost naked ; stalks hairy ; racemes pendulous ; fruit- 

 bearing flowers apetalous ; racemes many-flowered; flowers 

 like those of Vicia Cracca, with the banner pale violet, the 

 wings and keel white ; they have the stamina and pistils, but 

 the former being effete, they bear no fruit. It flowers here 

 in September, and is a native of North America. 



3. Glycine Debilis ; Hairy Clycine. Leaves ternate ; 

 leaflets oval, hairy underneath; legumes subsolitary, linear, 

 many-seeded; style permanent, upright ; root biennial. It 

 flowers in June and July, and is a native of the East Indies. 



4. Glycine Caribbaea ; Trailing Glycine. Leaves ternate, 

 subvillose ; leaflets rhomb-shaped ; racemes patulous ; stalk 

 shrubby, twining; stems ash-coloured, the thickness of a 

 quill, smooth ; racemes axillary, lateral, slender, elongated, 

 many-flowered ; corolla yellow, the border variegated under- 

 neath with purple lines; legume hirsute, an inch long. It 

 flowers in September and October. Native of the West Indies. 



5. Glycine Triloba ; Three-lobed Glycine. Leaves ternate ; 

 leaflets lobed ; stalk prostrate ; peduncles two-flowered. The 

 whole plant is prostrate, and does not climb. The root is 

 annual. The flowers are yellow, smaller, and generally two 

 together. Native of the East Indies. 



6. Glycine Villosa ; Villose Glycine. Leaves ternate, 

 three-lobed, villose ; racemes axillary ; stem filiform, angular, 

 twining, flexuose, tomentose, as is also the whole plant; 

 raceme peduncled, with two, four, or five flowers. Native 

 of Japan. 



. Glycine Javanica ; Java Glycine. Leaves ternate; 

 italk villose ; petioles rough-haired ; bractes lanceolate, 

 minute; stem twining, with yellow reflex hairs scattered 

 over it ; pedicels yellow, with close hairs ; stipules to the 

 petioles oval, long, to the peduncles lanceolate; peduncles 

 the length of the leaves, terminated by an ovate-oblong close 

 spike of nodding violet-coloured flowers, with very minute 

 bractes between them. Native of the East Indies, and near 

 Nagasaki in Japan, where it is called /q/o mame, and flowers 

 in September and October. 

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8. Glycine Comosa; Bearded Glycine. Leaves ternate, 

 hirsute ; racemes lateral. This rises from two to three feet 

 high, with slender herbaceous stalks ; flowers axillary, lateral; 

 the naked part of the peduncle is about two inches long; the 

 spike is about the same length, and recurved; corolla small, 

 of a fine blue colour. Native of moist shady places in Virgi- 

 nia. This, and the tenth species, are hardy enough to endure 

 the open air in England. They maybe propagated by seeds, 

 or by parting of the roots ; the former is the best method, 

 where good seeds can be obtained. They may be sown on a 

 bed of light earth in the spring; and, if the season should 

 prove dry, they must be frequently refreshed with water, 

 otherwise they will remain long in the ground, without vege- 

 tating. When the plants come up, they must be kept clean 

 from weeds in the summer; and in the autumn, when the 

 stalks are decayed, if some rotten tanner's bark be spread 

 over the surface of the ground, it will protect the roots from 

 being injured by the frost. In the spring, the roots should 

 be transplanted to the places where they are designed to re- 

 main, which must be in a warm sheltered situation, but not 

 too much exposed to the sun, and in a light soil, where they 

 will thrive, and produce flowers annually. If they be pro- 

 pagated by parting of the roots, it should be done in the 

 spring, before the roots begin to shoot : but they should not 

 be parted oftener than every third year; for when they are 

 often removed, they will not flower so strong. 



9. Glycine Phaseoloides ; Phaseolus Glycine. Leaves ter- 

 nate, villose underneath; racemes terminating; stem twining 

 to a considerable height, and bearing many flowers towards 

 the top. The legumes have two seeds, and are contracted 

 in the middle. Native of Jamaica and St. Domingo. 



10. Glycine Tomentosa ; Downy Glycine. Leaves ternate, 

 tomentose ; racemes very short, axillary ; legumes two- 

 seeded ; root perennial ; stalks twining, from a foot and a 

 half to four feet in height, three-cornered, hairy. From the 

 bosom of the leaves, three or four small flowers come out, on 

 very short peduncles, of a pale yellow colour; the banner 

 broadish, the wings narrow, and the keel compressed. The 

 plant called Dolichos Pubcscens by Linneus, is probably 

 only a variety of this species. Native of Virginia, where it is 

 called mountain pea. It flowers from June to September, 

 and ripens the early flowers in autumn. In addition to what 

 is said under the eighth species, we have here to add, that as 

 this is the tenderest of the two, the seeds may, for greater 

 security, be sown in a hot-bed, and some of the plants kept 

 in the green-house, or against a south wall, to be protected 

 occasionally in severe weather, by putting dung to the roots. 



11. Glycine Heticulata ; Netted-leaved Glycine. Leaves 

 ternate, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, the veins like net- 

 work underneath ; racemes axillary, subsessile ; legumes ob- 

 long, compressed; stem twining, angular, softly villose, sub- 

 canescent ; pedicels solitary, distant ; bractes ovate, attenu- 

 ated, deciduous; seeds two. Native of Jamaica. 



12. Glycine Bituminosa; Clammy Glycine. Leaves ter- 

 nate; flowers jacemed; legumes tumid, villose; stem twin- 

 ing, obtuse, angled, pubescent; stipules ovate, acuminate, 

 nerved ; corollas yellow, streaked on the outside, and at the 

 tip of the keel violet-coloured ; seeds four, small, globular, a 

 little flatted, black. It flowers from April to September, and 

 is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. This, together with 

 the twenty-first, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and twenty- 

 fifth species, may all be raised from seed in the green-house 

 or Cape stove. 



13. Glycine Nummularia. Leaves ternate, very obtuse; 

 racemes with flowers in pairs ; legumes sessile, suborbiculate, 

 compressed; stem herbaceous, twining, angular, pubescent; 



