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Yellow Cretic Kidneyvetch. 
Anthyllis Cretica flore flavo. 
The rocuns long, flender, and divided into. 
humerous parts. — “ 
The firft leaves are oblong, and undivided : 
they are of an inverted ‘oval figure, broad, and 
rounded at the end, and ‘narrow at the bafe. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and branched : 
they are of a pale green, and a foot and half high, 
The leaves ftand in an irregular manner on the 
flalks, and are fmall; about five grow together 
in an odd pinnated manner, 
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FOREIGN SPECIES. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, and are fmal] and yellow ; eight or ten - 
of them ‘ftand together in a clufter. 
The feed-veffels are fmall, and they are con- 
tained in broad membraneous cafes, Thefe are 
formed of the cups of the flower, which {well 
into this fthape and bignefs after it is fallen. 
The feeds are few and fmall. : 
It is frequent in the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in Augutft, : 
Profper Alpinus calls it Trifolium falcatum: a 
ftrange name, but others have copied it. 
Ni Os 3 XIl. 
HORSE-SHOE VETCH 
HIPPO. G R&AEPET S. 
Apa flower is compofed of four petals, and is papilionaceous. The vexillum is heart-fathioned, 
and has a very long bottom. The ale are of an oval form, and are obrtufe $ and the carina is 
flatted and hooked. The pod is crooked, long, 
the inner edge; fo that it appears compofed of a 
flatted, and cut deeply in at {mall diftances all along 
number of little points, faftened by narrow ends 
to the edge of the back. The feeds are fmall, oblong, and hooked; and one of them is lodged in 
every joint of the pod. 
The fingular form of the pod and feeds, which in fome degree refembles a horfe-fhoe, has ob- 
tained it the Latin name ferrum equinum, as well as the Englith one borfe-/boe vetch ; but it is better 
to ufe the more modern term hippocrepis, as it is a fingle word; for generical names fhould never 
confift of more. 
Linneus places this among the diadelpbia decandria ; the threads being ten, and in two affortments, 
nine in one body, and another fingle. 
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Tufted Horfe-fhoe Vetch. 
Hippocrepis filiquis confertis. 
’ The root is fimall, and divided into feveral 
arts. : 
The firft leaves are long, narrow, and pin- 
nated: each is compofed of fix or more pairs of 
fhort, oval pinnas; and they are of a pale green: | 
an odd leaf terminates each; and this is no larger 
than the others. 
The ftalks aré numerous, flendet, weak, 
branched, and eight or ten inches high. 
The leaves on thefe are pinnated, and per- 
fe€tly refemble thofe from the root. 
DIVISION - IL. 
Single podded Horfe-fhoe Vetch. 
Hippocrepis filiquis fingularibus. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. : 
The firft leaves are long, narrow, and pin- 
nated : each confifts of four or five pairs of pinnae, 
with an odd one at the end; and thefe are broad, 
fhort, and heart-fathioned, fmalleft at the bafe, 
broadeft at the top, and indented at the end. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and low. 
The leaves on thefe are pinnated in the fame 
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The flowers ate fall, and of a gold yellow: 
they grow in a kind of round clutter at the top of 
the ftalk, and on long pedicles rifing from the bo= 
foms of the leaves ; and they are of long conti- 
nuance, 
The pods are long, crooked, and indented : 
they hang from the footftalk in the manner of a 
rude and ragged head of hair; whence fome have 
named the plant. 
It is found on high chalky grounds in many 
parts of the kingdom, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ferrum equinum Germanicum 
Siliquis in fummitate. Others, Ferrum equinum © 
comofum. Some, Hedyfarum glycyrrhizatum. 
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manner as thofe from the root, and are of a pale : 
green colour. : 
The flowers ftand fingly on flender foctftalks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves; and they 
are {mall and yellow. 
The pod is long, fomewhat crooked, and 
deeply indented : the feeds are fmall, and crooked, 
in the fhape of an horfe-/hoe. 
It is frequent in Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ferrum equinum filiqua fin- 
gulari. 
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