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: * Stamens in two bundles, nine united, and one free. 



BITTER-VETCH, (Orolus.) Style linear, downy ; leaves with- 

 out tendrils. 



VETCHLING, (Lathyrus.) Style flat, downy ; leaves with 

 tendrils. 



VETCH, (Vicia.) Style furnished with a tuft of hair. 



TARE, (Ervum.) Stigma downy all over. 



BIRD'S-FOOT, (Ornithopus.) Pods many together, jointed. 



MELILOT, (Melilotus.) Pods longer than the calyx ; flowers 

 in spikes. 



CLOVER, (Trefoil.') Pods shorter than the calyx ; flowers in 

 heads. 



BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL, (Lottis.} Pod long, swelled, and straight. 



MEDICK, (Medicayo.) Pods sword-shaped or twisted. 



FUMITORY. FUMARIA. 



COMMON FUMITORY. Fumaria officinalis. 



Plate 11, fig. 1. 



Found chiefly in cultivated ground, or where the earth has 

 been turned over for building. It is a beautiful, little, juicy, 

 brittle plant, bearing from June to September numerous long 

 bunches of dark pink flowers, which are succeeded by nearly- 

 round one-seeded pods. The calyx falls off witli the petals, 

 and the lowermost of these is spurred at the base. The leaves 

 are twice or thrice compound, and on long stalks. 



O. S. Ramping Fumitory and Small-Flowered Fumitory. 



MILKWORT. POLYGALA. 



COMMON MILKWORT. Polygala vulgaris. 

 Plate l\,fig. 2. 



A little tufted plant, abundant on all heaths, flowering in 

 June. It has several simple stems, bearing many flowers near 

 4he top of them, either blue, pink, or white. The calyx is of 

 five pieces, three of them small ; the other two clasping the 

 fiower like two wings, and becoming colored like the corolla. 

 Leaves small, narrow, or ovate, and with stalks. 



