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os GRAB RE TS Sn Ras ae 
The flowers grow in clufters on long foot- 
ftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, and 
are of a bright purple. 
The feed-veffel is long and flender, and the 
feeds are numerous and roundifh. 
It is frequent among bufhes in Germany, and 
many other parts of Europe, where the roots are 
_dug for the table. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lathyrus arvenfis repens tu- 
berofus. 
5» Strip’d yellow-flowered Vetchling, 
Lathyrus flore flavo frriato. 
The root is long and thick; divided into 
many parts, and furnifhed with numerous irre- 
gular fibres. 
The ftalks are lender, weak, and flat; edged 
by a membrane, and of a pale green colour. 
The leaves grow, as in the others, two toge- 
ther, with a tendril rifing from between them: 
they are broad, fhort, and fharp-pointed, and 
of a freth green,’ 
The flowers grow three or four together on 
flender footftalks, and are of a beautiful yellow, 
ftriped with purple. 
The pods are long and flender, and the feeds 
are roundifh and {mall. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Augutt. 
Morifon calls it Lathyrus Beticus flore luteo, 
It is one of the moft beautiful of the lathyrus 
kind, 
4. Vetchling called Sweet Pea: 
Lathyrus birfutus magno flore. 
The root is compofed of feveral thick fibres, 
with fmaller growing from them, 
The ftalks are flatted and weak, but confi« 
derably thick, and of a pale green, 
The leaves are very large, and of a pale green, 
foft to the touch, and a little hairy: they grow 
two together, and have a tendril rifing between 
them. 
The flowers are large, and of a mixed red, and 
are very {weet-fcented. 
The feed-veftel is large and h 
feeds are roundifh and brown. 
It is a native of Africa, and flowers in July. Ie 
is kept in our gardens for its beauty and fragrance, 
but very improperly called a pea. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lathyrus ficulus. 
airy, and the 
5. Vetchling, called Tangier Pea. 
Lathyrus biflorus floribus ruberrimis. 
The root is long, divided, and furnifhed with 
{ numerous, thick, and crooked fibres. 
The ftalks are thick, but weak, and mode- 
rately branched: they are angulated, and of a 
pale greyifh green. 
The leaves grow, as in the others, two toge- 
ther, with a tendril between them: they are 
long, narrow, and fharp-pointed, and are of a 
pale green. 
The flowers grow upon very long footftalks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, two on each; 
and they are large, and of a beautiful red. 
The pods are flender, and the feeds are roun= 
difh. 
It is a native of Africa, but flowers very well 
in our gardens. i 
Morifon calls it Lathyrus tingitanus filiquis orobi 
Jlore amplo ruberrimo. Our gardeners, Tangier 
pea. 
Gao. Nee ans Ill. 
CHICHLING. 
CLYMENU Mm, 
ap sae flower is papilionaceous, and is compofed of four petals. The vexillum is large, dented 
4 at the extremity, and turned back at the top and at the edges. The alz are fhort, hooked, 
and obtufe, and the carina is broad, and fplit in the middle. The cup is formed of a fingle leaf, 
narrow at the bottom, wide at the mouth, and divided into five fegments ; the two upper ones fhort, 
and the lower one very long. The pod is long, 
manner, feveral pairs together. 
and flatted at top. The leaves grow in a pinnated 
Linnzeus places this among the diadelphia decandria; the threads being formed into two bodies, 
nine into one, and a fingle one in the other. 
That author joins this genus and the lathyrus, 
by the compofition of the leaves. 
though Nature have thus plainly diftinguifhed them 
It is an invariable character, and can never be miftaken. It is the more needful, as the plants of 
each genus are numerous; and of the more authority, as thofe of the prefent arrangement have 
been generally diftinguithed by this feparate name, 
DIVISION If, 
1. Variegated wild Chichling. 
Chmenum fylveftre flore variegato. 
_ The root is long and flender, divided into 
feveral parts, and furnithed with numerous, thick, 
and {preading fibres. ; 
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BRETISH SPECIES, 
The ftalk is flatted, and edged, of a pale 
greyifh green, weak, and branched: it hangs 
irregularly, or is fupported by the ftouter plants 
or bufhes; and in this manner grows to a foot 
and half or more in length. 
The leaves are placed irregularly, and each is - 
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