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Plants whofe flower is papilionaceous ; whofe feed-veffel is a regutar, but Jmall 
leguminous pod ; and whofe leaves are placed three on each footftalk, 
difpofition of its threads the fame. 7 
For this teafon Linnzeus arranges thefe with the preceding genera under one and the fame 
clas, the diadelphia decandria. dividing them from the reft only by the mark of a particular fection, 
This was neceflary according to his method, which does not admit any part of a plant but the flower 
and fruit into the confideration of a claffical diftinétion.: but in nature the genera are perfectly fepa- 
rated fromvall others, and kept united together by this fingular charaéter of the leaves growing three 
together. This is conftant and certain: it does not in all the clafs admit a fingle variation or ex- 
ception; and it is therefore a proper mark for the diftinétion of a clafs; the fmalinefs of the pod joins 
ing to cftablith it. et 
In all the courfe of Nature, when carefully obferved and truly followed, there are found marks of 
the connection, not.only of the lefler but greater diftinétions : in this cafe the fame method is ob- 
ferved in that refpect as in others. ) The kidneybean is the genus uniting the leguminous and trifo- 
liate plants, the leaves in all,the fpecies of that genus grow by threes; and the fecd-veffel is long 
large, and of the proper leguminous kind, a 
Ts form and flructure of the flower is the fame in this and in the preceding genus, and the 
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FIE flower is papilionaceous ; the vexillum is turned backwards; the ale are fhort, and the 
carina is very fhort, and fomewhat broad. ‘The cup is formed of a fingle piece; and is fmall, 
tubular, and divided lightly into five fezments at the edges and it remains with the fruit ; as does alfo 
“in many {pecies the flower. The feed-veliel is a fhort pod, compofed of a fingle valves and the 
feeds are roundifh and few. TOE 
Linnzus places this among the djadelpbia decandria, making it of the fame clafs with the pulfe: 
and he comprehends under the name of this genus almoft’a whole clafs, deftroying the received dif- 
tin@tions of melilot, hares-foot, bop-trefoil, and many other genera, and making all fpecies. of this 
one. 
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