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1. Sweet Trefoil. 
Melilotus odoratus flore ceruleo. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, branched, and 
two feet high: it is of a pale green, and hol- 
low. 
The leaves ftand on long footftalks, three on 
each: they are oblong, moderately broad, of a 
beautiful green, and ferrated at the edges. 
The flowers ftand in {mall heads at the tops of 
the branches; and they are of a beautiful fky- 
blue, and very {weet. : 
The feed-veffels are fmall, and the feeds are 
few and brown. 
It is common wild in Spain; and in other. places 
is cultivated for the fragrance and lafting {cent of 
the flowers. 
C.Bauhine calls it Lotus hortenfis odora. Others, 
Trifolium odoratum. 
2. Italian Melilot. 
Melilotus folliculis majoribus, 
The root is long, thick, redifh, and furnithed 
with numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are round, upright, firm, branched 
all the way up, and near a yard high, 
The leaves have long, flender footftalks, and 
ftand three on each: they are fhort, broad, and 
of a faint green toward the bottom ; but longer, 
narrower, and of a more lively colour toward the 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
_ The flowers ftand on the tops of the branches 
in long, loofe fpikes; and they are fmall and yel- 
low. ‘ 
The feed-veffels are fwoln, roundifh, and 
rough: the feeds are few and large, and. of a 
gloffy brown. 
It is frequent in the warmer parts of Italy, and 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Melilotus Italica Solliculis ro- 
tundis. 
3. Sweet Melilot with hooked pods, 
Melilotus odoratus Siliquis falcatis. 
The root is long, thick, redifh, and divided 
into feveral parts. : 
The ftalks are numerous, upright, branched, 
and four feet high : they are of a yellowifh green, 
ftriated, and hollow. 
The leaves have long footftalks, and they ftand 
three on each: thefe are oblong, moderately 
broad, ferrated, fharp-poined, and of a frefth and 
elegant green, 
The flowers ftand in loofe fpikes at the tops of 
the ftalks and branches, and are of a pale yel- 
low. 
The feed-veffels are long, flender, and hooked 
upwards: the feeds are of a glofly brown. 
It is common in the warmer parts of Europe, 
and the Eaft. The flowers in the hotteft coun- 
tries have the moft fragrant fmell. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Melilotus corniculis reflexis 
major, Others, Melilotus Syriaca, and Melilotys 
top of the plant. 5 Syriaca odora, 
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FOQNUGREEK. ; 
FENUM GRECUM | : 
HE flower is papilionaceous. The vexillum is turned back ; the ala are fmall, and turned out. 
wards ; and the carina is very fhort: The three upper petals feem to make a regular three- 
leaved flower, and this fourth is placed in the centre, 
The cup is hort, hollowed, and lightly di- ~ 
vided into five fegments. The feed-veffel is oblong, and fomewhat flatted: the feeds are numerous 
and roundifh: 
Linnzus places this among the diadelphia decandria ; the threads in the flower being ten, in two af 
fortments. He rejects the received name Fenum Grecum, and calls the genus Trigonella. The an- 
tient name is but ill conftructed ; but as it is univerfally underftood, and the plant has virtues worth 
regarding, which are fpoken of by early authors under this old name, we have preferved it. 
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Small wild Foenugreek. 
Fenum Grecum pumilum repens. 
The root is long, thick, divided into feveral 
parts, and hung with numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are irregular and numerous: they 
are four or five inches long, and they fpread upon 
the ground: they are of a pale colour, branched, 
and tough: 
The leaves ftand by threes ‘on long, flender 
footftalks, with a fkin or membraneous fheath at 
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the bottom : they are fmall, of an oval figure, of 
adead green, and lightly ferrated at the edges. 
The flowers are large, and of a pale purple. 
they ftand two or three together, upon flender 
footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, 
The feed-veffels are thick and fhort ; and they 
are full of brown, large feeds. 
It is common in barren grounds, and flowers 
in June. : 
Ray calls it Fenum Grecum bumile repens orni- 
thopodii filiquis brevibus ereétis. 
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