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The pBeRalePel S}He HEIR; ASth 
The feed-veffel is fhort and thick, and the feeds 
are roundifh. 
It is a wild plant in France among corn, and ‘ 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lens vulgaris, Others, Lens 
major, and Lens minor; for there is no diffe- 
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rence between thofe but from accident of cul- 
ture. 
Many things have been faid with little reafon 
on the virtues of Jentils: experience fhews them 
falfe. We cultivate it for the food of cattle. 
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HE flower is papilionaceous. The vexillum is large and roundifh. The ale are fimall and obs 
T tufe, and the carina is {mall and fharp-pointed. The cup is divided into five narrow fegments, 
The feed-veffel is fhort and fwelled ; and the feeds are roundifh, but cornered; fo that they are fup- 
pofed to reprefent the head of a ram. 
Linnzus places this, as the preceding, among the diadelphia decandria, making it improperly a 
fpecies of Jentill. 
Common Chich, 
Cicer vulgare. 
The root is long, flender, white, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are weak, flender, branched, and 
of a pale green. ; 
The leaves are pinnated in a very regular and 
beautiful manner: each is compofed of four or 
five pairs of pinnz, with an odd one at the end ; 
and thefe are fhort, broad, and ferrated at the 
edges. 
The flowers ftand fingly on fhort footftalks ri- 
fing from the bofoms of the leaves ; and they are 
fall, and of a whitifh or purplifh colour, vary- 
ing in the degree as chance directs. 
The feed-veffel is fhort and thick, and the feeds 
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are two: thefe are large at one end, fimall at the 
other, and cornered ; fo that they are fuppofed 
to refemble a ram’s head: but there muft be fome 
ftrength of imagination to make out the like- 
nefs, 
Itis wild in the corn-fields of Spain, and flowers 
in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cicer fativum. 
It is celebrated as a promoter of venery, but 
with no great reafon. The feeds are of the pea 
kind in nature and qualities, and may be eaten in 
the fame manner. 
We raife the plant, among our other improve: , 
ments of hufbandry, in fields for the food of cattle, 
It is an excellent herb for that purpofe, and far 
from exhaufting the land, it mellows it, and pre- 
pares it for bearing larger crops of corn. 
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GALEGA. 
HE flower is papilionaceous. ‘The vexillum is large and oval, 
and at the edges. 
and it is turned back at the top _ 
The ale are oblong, and have a kind of appendage at the tips. The carina 
is ftrait and comprefled, and is oblong, and irregular in fhape. 
The cup is fhort, tubular, and di- 
vided into five fegments at the edge. ‘The feed-veffél is long, flender, fharp pointed, and knotted at 
~ the places where the feeds lie. The feeds are oblong, and kidney-fhaped. f 
genera. 
Common. Goats Rue. 
Galega vulgaris. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are round, upright, branched, of a 
pale green colour, anda yard high. 
The leaves are beautifully pinnated, and of a 
faint green : they are compofed of five or more 
pairs.of pinne, with an odd one at th&end ; and 
thefe are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed. 
The flowers grow in fpikes upon long, flender 
footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves : 
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Linnzus places it among the diadelphia decandria; the threads being difpofed as in the preceding 
they are fmall, and of a pale blue, ftreaked often 
with white. ' ' 
The feed-veffels are very long, flender,and green. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls it Galega vulgaris and others 
ufe the fame name. 
* Tt was at one time in great efteem as a cordial, 
-alexipharmic, and fudorific; but ic never de- 
ferved the praife beftowed upon it, and is now 
with reafon fallen into neglect. It is an ingre- 
dient in feveral of the old compofitions of the 
fhops. 
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