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BRol DISH Ane R-B Ase 
GIVE Nw KB X. 
CATERPILLARS, 
SCORPIOIDES. 
THe flower is papilionaceous. The vexillum is of a roundifh form, turned back at the top, and 
nipped at the extremity. 
The alz are of an oval form, and have a fmall appendage. 
The ca- 
rina is of the form of a crefcent, and is fplit on the lower part. The cup is flatted, formed of a fingle 
piece, and lightly divided into five fegments. The-feed-veffel is long, rough, and twifted; and the 
feeds are roundifh. ' 
Linnzus places it among the diadelpbia decandrias the threads of the flower being ten, and ar- 
ranged in the fame manner as in the preceding genera. He diflikes the old name /corpioides, and calls 
it fcorpiurus. Our people call it caterpillars, from the fhape of the pods. 
Long-leaved Caterpillars. 
Scorpioides foliis longioribus indivifis. 
The root is long, fender, yellow, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous fibres. ; 
The ftalks are round, weak, of a pale green, 
and two feet in length, but not perfectly upright, 
The leaves are oblong and undivided, obtufe 
at the ends, and not fo much as notched along 
the edges: they are of a bluith green. 
The flowers are placed two together on the tops 
of very long and flender footftalks rifing from the 
bofoms of the leaves: they are fmall, but of a fine 
gold yellow. 
The feed-veffel is hairy, long, flender, and 
turned or twifted round, and is brown: the feeds 
are {mall, and alfo brown. 
It is wild in Spain and Italy, and flowers in. 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scorpioides Beupleuri folio! 
J. Bauhine, Scorpioides filiqua campoide bifpida. 
Our gardeners, The caterpillar plant. 
Neither this, nor the generality of the former 
{pecies, are diftinguifhed by any particular vir- 
tues. They are of the pulfe kind; and therefore 
their feeds would be eatable, if larger, and better 
flavoured. Their fingularity gives them a place 
in gardens, 
Th END of tle SEVENTEENTH CLASS, 
