290 The! BR ET Piso WeEtR BAIL. 
The Grafs- Vetch. 
Niffolia. 
The root is compofed of-numerous, thick, and 
tough fibres. 
The ftalk is of a pale green, flender, but tole- 
rably erect, rarely much branched, and two feet 
high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on the ftalks 
from the top to the bottom of the plant; and 
there generally rifes a young fhoot of a branch in 
the bofom of every one of them: they are very 
long, narrow, and of a fine frefh green; fo that 
they in all refpeéts refemble thofe of grafs; and 
the plant is hardly diftinguifhed, except when in 
flower. 
The flowers are placed on long, flender foot- 
ftalks; and-are of a bright red colour: they are 
fmall, but very confpicuous. 
The pods are long and flender, and the feeds 
are numerous and round. 
It is found by wood-fides, and in hedges in 
many places. Authors have called it by a va- 
riety of names, but all of them liable to fo many 
objections, that this new one wifolia.is very proper 
to be introduced in their place. 
Some call:it Eroum fylveftre 5 and others, Cata- 
nance leguminofa: butervum and catanance are names 
of different plants ; fo this breeds confufion. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lathyrus fylueftris «minor ; 
but the characters fhew how improperly itis called 
by that name. 
Its virtues are unknown. 
Gri Be 2c TU 28 XI. 
KIDNEY VETCH, 
AN LH ToLLelos, 
HE flower is compofed of four petals, and is papilionaceous. The vexillum is oblong: it 
turns back at the fides, and has a hollow bottom of the length of the cup. The alz are of an 
oblong form, and are fhorter than the vexillum. The carina refembles the ala in fhape and fize; 
but it is compreffed. The cup is formed of one piece, and is of an oval figure, fomewhat fwoln 
and hairy: it is divided regularly into five fegments at the edge, and it remains when the flower is 
fallen. The pod is very fmall, and of a roundifh figure; and it remains covered within the cup. 
Linnzus places this among the diadelphia decandria ; the flower having ten threads in two affort. 
ments, nine collected into a body, and one fingle. 
D<12V. IvS_TwO2N * 1. 
1. Yellow Kidneyvetch, 
Anthyllis pinnata flava. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are long, and pinnated in a very 
regular and perfect manner : each is compofed of 
fix or more pairs of pinnae, which are oblong and 
narrow, and a much larger leaf of the fame form 
at the end: the whole is hairy, and of a whitith 
green, 
The ftalk is round, thick, and a foot or more 
in height when it rifes up, but it more ufually 
fpreads about the ground ; and is of a yellowifh 
colour. 
The leaves on this are perfectly like thofe from 
the root : they are placed irregularly, and are of 
the fame pale colour. 
The flowers ftand in tufts at the tops of the 
ftalks, and on long, flender pedicles rifing from 
the bofoms of the leaves: they are fmall and yel- 
low. 
The pods are fmall, and remain concealed in 
the cups. 
We have it in dry paftures not unfrequently. 
Tt. flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Loto affinis vulveraria pra- 
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tenfis. Others, athyllis leguminofa, and Vulne- 
varia ruftica. 
It has the credit of being a famous wound- 
herb; but thefe are virtues lefs regarded now 
than heretofore. : 
2. Purple Kidneyvetch, 
Anthyllis procumbens floribus rubris. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves are regularly pinnated : each _ 
is compofed of feveral pairs of {mall pinne, with 
a larger odd leaf at the end. : 
The ftalks are numerous, a foot long, and 
fpread themfelves on the ground. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on them, and 
are pinnated as thofe from the root. 
The flowers grow in large tufts at the tops of 
the ftalks, and extremities of all the branches, 
and are of a bright red. 
The feed-veffels are very {mall, and perfeétly 
hid within the cup. 
It is found in our weftern counties, and flowers 
in Auguft. \ 
Ray calls it Vulneravia fupina flore coccineo. 
The older authors were not acquainted with it. 
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