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The pods are long and flender, and the feeds 
are {mall and round. 
“We have this elegant plant in woods and 
thickets in many parts of England, though not 
common like the former. It flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Vicia fylvatica multifora maxima. 
The feeds of thefeare eaten by wild birds, and 
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Thick-podded, broad-leaved Cracca. 
Cracca latifolia filiquis craffis. 
The root is thick, long, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are many, firm, of a dufky colour, 
and branched. 
The leaves are beautifully pinnated : they are 
compofed each of eight or more pairs of pinna 5 
and thefe are broad, fhort, very obtufe, and have 
a kind of thread at their end, which is a conti- 
nuation of the middle rib beyond the verge of the 
leaf. 
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PAA, 
would ferve as ¢arves, and other of the pulfe kind, 
for the feeding fome domeftic animals: they 
are not cultivated for fuch purpofe, not becaufe 
they are not worthy, but becaufe others are in 
ufe. Many of thefe are better bearers, and 
would be more ferviceable than the common tare, 
or other ufual kinds. 
Ro Bol GaN. Sebati, Cale Bas: 
The whole pinnated leaf is terminated by a 
flight tendril; but this is not conftant, nor is it 
fo important to this fhrubby kind as to thofe 
which are weaker. ; 
The flowers are {mall and purple: they ftand 
in long fpikes, in the manner of thofe of the com- 
mon Englifh many-flowered kind ; and they have 
a long, general footftalk, and.each its fhort and 
fmall feparate one, by which it is connected to that. 
The pods are broad, fhort, and fmooth: the 
feeds are round, large, and not numerous, 
It is a native of the Eaft., ° 
Burman calls it Vicia multiflora Siliqua breviore. 
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Bea. 
HE flower is papilionaceous, and regularly formed of four petals. The vexillum is large, oval, 
dented with a point at the top, and turned back at the fides; and it has a long hollow bot- 
tom. The ale are fhorter than the vexillum; and are ftrait, and a little heart-fafhioned. The ca- 
rina is fhorter than the ale, and is flatted, and half round. The cup is compofed of a fingle tubular 
piece, divided into five irregular fegments at the edge, the two upper ones fhorter than the reft, and 
convergent. The pod is very large, thick, and fomewhat flatted: the feeds are few, large, and 
flatted alfo. The ftalks are fquare; and the leaves 
, though pinnated, have no tendrils. 
Linnzus places this among the diadelphia decandria , the threads in the flower being ten, and formed 
into two affortments, nine in one, and the other fingle. 
This author takes away the name and generical diftinction of this kind, and makes the bean to be a 
fpecies of vetch. 
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We have obferved already, that the form of the feed-veffel and feeds is a fufficient diftin@ion for 
the bean from the vetch as a genus; and the fhape 
that diftinction, and renders it perfectly obvious. 
DD oteV.le 3d OF Newel: 
1. The Horfe-Bean. 
Faba vulgaris frudtu minore. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a great number of fibres. 
The ftalk is fquare, upright, thick, hollow, 
not at all branched, and of a pale green, 
The leaves are very large, and pinnated : each 
is compofed of three or four pairs of pinnz, with 
an odd one at the; end. 
_ Inthe pinnated leaves of all the preceding kinds, 
a tendril has the place of this fingle or odd pinna, 
which. is the provifion of nature for holding them 
up by climbing, the plants themfelves being weak ; 
but in the bean this affiftance. being not necef- 
fary, the leaves are completed without it, 
The flowers rife in the bofoms of the leaves, 
and are fupported on fhort footftalks: they are 
white, with a large quantity of black, by way of 
variegation, and many black ftreaks or lines: 
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of the ftalk, and ftructure of theleaves, confirms 
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upon the whole, they are beautiful, and they have 
a very fragrant fméll. 
The pods are very large, and the feeds alfo large: 
We find the horfe-bean very {mall in places re- 
mote from all habitations, which feems to de- 
clare it a native of our country. But, in refpeét 
of plants whofe utility has rendered them for ages 
the fubjects of the gardener’s and hufbandman’s 
labours, it is hard to fay with certainty, whether 
any plant of them we fee with a wild afpect 
have not arifen from feeds cafually dropped. 
Thofe whe do not allow the bean tobe a native 
wild plant with us, know not what! other country 
to gffign as its original place. of growth; for in 
moft others the cafe ftands exactly as with us, 
Probably it.is common to many places, Nature 
having made things, fo ufeful in moft int 
in a manner univerfal. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fada, and Faba minor, Sive 
Equina, Others, Faba minor, fylveftris, and communis. 
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