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The, Bowers ftand in 4 kind of fpikes, on Jong, 
lender footltalks rifing from the bofoms of the 
leaves ; and they are large and red. 
The pods are fhort and crefted; fo that they 
refemble in fome degree a cocks comb; whence the 
plant has its name. 
The feeds are large and. brown. 
Tt is found wild in dry, hilly paftures, and 
flowers in Auguft. ‘ 
C, Bauhine calls it Onobrychis foltis vicie Srugiu 
echinato maori. 
It is fown in fields for the food of cattle, in the 
DTV Sel ON IE 
Prickly-headed Cock {comb. 
Qnobrychis filiquis echinatis magnis. 
The root is flender and white, long, and fur- 
nifhed with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are pinnated in a reoular man- 
ner: cach confifts of eight or ten pairs.of nar- 
‘row, pointed pinnz upon amiddle rib: and there 
is an odd one at the end: their colour is a pale 
green. 
The flalks are numerous, weak, and of a 
FOREIGN 
manner of clover: and it anfwers the farmer’s 
purpofe much better. Nothing is a greater im- 
provement in the modern hufbandry than the in- 
troducing of this plant. We-received the feeds 
from France, where it has been long ufed; and 
now it is once upon a footing in our country, it 
will not lofe its place again. It is wonderful the 
ufe of it fhould have been fo long either unknowa 
or neglected among us.. It has been famous for 
the fame purpofe thefe two thoufand years: the 
Greeks cultivated it; and, from its caufing plenty 
of milk in their cows, called it polygalon, 
SPECIES. 
whitifh colour: they often trail upon the ground, 
and feldom rife to more than ten inches high, 
The flowers ftand at the tops in great clufters, 
and are of a pale red. $0 
The feed-veffel is large and prickly, and con- 
tains a fingle large kidney-fhaped feed. 
It is a native of the fouth of France, and 
flowers in Auguft. It is found near the fea- 
coafts. 
C. Bavhine calls it Onobrychis frufiu echinato 
minor. 
Ry. 
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Foreran GENERA. 
Tho of which there is no f{pecies naturally wild in this country. 
GO SEN 
Ue a asthe 
HATCHET VETCH. 
HEDYSARUM. 
IIE flower is of the papilionaceous form, 
in the outer part ; and it is, as it were, 
a fingle piece, and is divided into five fegments : 
and they remain when the flower is fallen. 
chaia. 
Ws bic threads in the ower being divided into 
The vexillum is long and compreffed, and it is 
nipped at the end. The alz are long and ftrait,, 
The carina is ftrait, compreffed, and broadeft 
cut off, and {plit a part of its length. The cup is formed of 
thefe are long, 
‘The feed-veffel is of an oblong form, and is compofed 
of feveral joints, hung together in the manner of a 
Linneus places this among the diadelphia decan 
narrow, ftrait, and fharp-pointed ; 
two affortments, nine in one, and a fingle one for the other, 
He joins this and the onobrychis, as we have obferved, under one head: but the diftin@ion is ob_ 
vious and great 5 the feed-veffel of the onobrychis bein 
feed, and that of the bedy/arum being compofed of 
feveral feeds. 
Where the diftinGtions are thus certain 
rendered eafy by the number of thofe diftinGions. 
As we have no proper Englith name for this genus, 
Latin one hedyfarum. 
two words, it is wrong for a generical diftinétion. 
French Honeyfuckle. 
Hedyfarum filiquis articulatis rugofis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
yumerous fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, long, and pinnated : 
they are compofed each of five or fix pairs of pin- 
g but a fingle piece, and containing only a fingle 
many fuch pieces linked together, and containing 
» it is very wrong to confound the genera, for the {cience is 
the beft method will be always to ufe the 
We have added the common received Englifh term; but, being compofed of 
nz ; which are large, broad, and of a dufky green, 
and have an odd one of like figure at the end. 
The ftalks are numerous, upright, and of a 
pale green: they are not much branched, “and 
are of a tough fubftance. : : 
‘The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are of a pale and yellowith green, 
: The 
