The BRITESH GER BAL 
293. 
DIVEST OfN oT 
1. Liquorice Vetch. 
Glaux procumbens filiquis majoribus. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, and of a pale green: 
they fpread themfelves in a circular manner, and 
do not rife much above the ground. 
The leaves are very large, pinnated, and of a 
pale green: each is compofed of five or fix pairs 
of larger oval pinnz, with an odd one at the end ; 
and they are fharp pointed. 4 
The flowers grow on footftalks rifing in the 
bofoms of the leaves, and are of a pale yellow. 
The feed-veffels are long, flender, and grow 
feveral in a clufter: they are of a brown colour, 
and contain numerous feeds. 
It is common in thickets at the foot of hills, 
nd flowers in Auguft. 
C.Bauhine calls it Glycyrrhiza fylveftris flori- 
bus luteo pailefcentibus. Others, Glaux legumi- 
nofa, and Aftragalus luteus. 
DIVISION IL 
Spanifh Milkwort. 
Glaux capitulis imbricatis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous, and beautifully 
pinnated: they are compofed each of ten op 
twelve pairs of fmall oval pinnz, with an odd 
one at the end. 
The ftalks rife among thefe; and are nume- 
rous, fmall, and not much branched: they are 
fix or eight inches in length, but ufually lie in 
part upon the ground. 
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2. Little Purple Glaux, 
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Glaux ex1IZuad incana purpurea. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fmall fibres, 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and four 
inches long. 
‘The leaves are placed irregularly on them, and 
are long and pinnated : each is compofed of fix 
or eight pairs of pinnz; which are fmall, fhort, 
and hairy, and of a pale green colour ; and there 
ftands an odd one at the end. 
_ The flowers are placed in clufters on flender 
footftalks ; and they are of a bright purple. 
The feed-veffels are fhort and {welled, 
It is found in dry, hilly paftures, and flowers 
in July. : 
Ray calls it Glaux exigua purpurea montana nof- 
tras. 
There is an opinion that thefe plants encreafe 
milk in the breafts of nurfes ; but it is not fup- 
ported on any good authority. 
S°P.EsC gbys: 
The leaves on thefe are numerous, and placed 
irregularly : they are pinnated in the fame man- 
ner as thofe from the root, and are of a pale 
green. 
The flowers are placed in thick, oval heads 
upon the ftalks : they are fmall and yellow. 
The feed-veffel is fhort, and the feeds are 
fmall, ‘ 
It is frequent in Spain and Italy, and flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ciceri fplveftri minori affinis. 
Others, Glaux Hifpanica, and Glaux Diofcoridis. 
XV. 
“COCKSHEAD. 
OsaNs O WB GR LOCH” FS, 
"THE flower is compofed of four petals, and is of the papilionaceous kind. The vexillum is ob- 
long, comprefled, reflex, and dented at the end. The alz are extremely fhort, ftrait, and 
narrow. The carina is fhort, compreffed, and fplit along the bottom. The cup is formed of a 
fingle leaf, divided into five pointed fegments, and remains when the flower is fallen. The pod is 
fhort, and confifts only of a fingle cell. 
Linnzus places this among the diadelpbia decandria ; the threads in the flower being ten, and formed 
into two affortments, nine in one body, and a fingle one feparate from them. 
He joins this with the Aedyfarum, not allowing it to be a diftin& genus, But the pods fhew a ma- 
nifeft generical difference ; thofe of the bedyfarum being compofed of feveral joints, and this of the 
onobrychis being fingle. 
DIVISION IL 
Common Cock fhead. 
Onobrychis vulgaris, 
The root is long: it penetrates very deep 
into the earth, and is furnifhed with numerous 
fibres. 
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B URES: iS PPE Cueh ss; 
The ftalks are round, ftriated, of a pale green, 
weak, and a foot and a half high. 
The leaves are regularly pinnated: each is 
compofed of fix or eight pairs of pinne, with an 
odd one at the end; and thefe are oblong, nar- 
row, fharp-pointed, and of a frefh green. 
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