618 377. Vicia. 63. LEGUMINOS^. Pl.ex.cal. 



/3, equina. Leaves ovate, oblong; seeds rounded, small. 



Faba minor sive equina, Raii Syn. 323,2. 



Faba minor sylvestris, Park. 1054. 



Common bean. Ger. era. 1210, 3. Horse bean. 



Seeds used in this country for horse-corn, but eaten by 

 the poor in foreign countries ; also ground with wheat. 



D. ORNiTHOPODEiE. Stamens diadelphous; legumen one- 

 celled, or many-celled, not opening spontaneously ; cells 

 transverse, 1 -seeded. 



XVII. 378. ORNITHOPUS. Gesner. Birds-foot. 

 Calyx 5 -toothed, tubular; keel very small; legumen bent, 



slender, round, pointed, jointed ; joints cylindrical. 



Ornithopus perpusilkis. Very-small birds-foot. 



Herb downy ; leaves pinnate, 6 to 9-paired ; flovjers in 

 heads, bracteated ; legumen roundish, bent inward. 



OrnithopodiuiT) majus, and minus, Ger. em. 1241, 3 and 4. 

 Ornithopus perpusillus, Lin. S. P. 1049. 



Sandy fields; annual; May. 



Root fibrous ; stem prostrate, much branched ; leaves pin- 

 nate with an odd leaflet; heads few-flowered; standard and 

 wings red variegated ; keel greenish ; legumen 6 or 8-celled, 

 necklaceshape, slightly compressed. 



^. nodosa. Root with tubercles. 



Ornithopodium radice nodosa, Raii Syn. 326, 1 ; Park. 1093. 



XVIII. 379. HIPPOCREPIS. Linneeus. Horseshoe-vetch. 

 Calyx unequally 5-toothed; slandard-clarv longer than 



the calyx; legumen oblong, compressed, membranaceous, 

 jointed, bent; one suture deeply toothed. 



Hippocrepis comosa. Tifted horseshoe-vetch. 



Legumens 5 or 8 in a tuft, crowded, peduncled, bent, 

 rough, crenated on both edges. 



Ferrum equinura Germanicum.siliquis in summitate, Raii Syn. 323, I. 

 Hedysarum glycyrriiizatum, Ger. 1056, 2; not Ger. em. 

 Ferrum equinum comosum. Park. 1091. 

 Hippocrepis comosa, Lin. S. P. 1030. 



Dry chalky fields ; perennial ; May to August. 



Herb bald ; stem prostrate, branched ; leaves pinnate with 

 an odd leaflet; leaflets reverse ovate, nicked; stipules lan- 

 ceolate; peduncles axillary, umbelled; calyx bald; legumen- 

 cells and seeds kidneyshape. 



