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ftalks and branches ; and they are ufually white, 
fometimes redifh. 
The feed-veffels are flender and long. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Trifolium album anguftifolium 
floribus veluti in capitulum conjeftis. Others, Spa- 
nifh dorycnium, Dorycnium Hifpanicum, and Do- 
rycnium flore minore, 
8. Long-podded Lotus. 
Lotus filiquis longiffimis. 
The root is long and divided. 
The ftalks are numerous, firm, and not much 
branched. 
The leaves are difpofed in a regular manner, 
and placed at agreeable diftances on the plant: 
three ftand together, and two at their bafe: they 
are oblong, obtufe, and white. 
The flowers are long and flender, and their co- 
lour is a beautiful gold yellow: three ufually 
ftand together. 
The feed-veffel is very large, and the feeds 
are numerous and brown. 
It isa native of the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in Auguft. 
Plukenet calls it Dotus argentea Cretica ; and 
others follow him. 
g. Great fcarlet-flowered Lotus, - 
Lotus flore magno coccineo. 
The root is long, fpreading, and furnithed 
with numerous fibres, 
The ftalks are robuft, upright, and brown ; 
and the plant has a fhrubby appearance. 
The leaves are large: three ftand on a fhort 
footftalk, and two at the bafe: they are oblong 
and obtule, and of a greyifh green. 
The flowers ftand on flender footftalks rifing 
| from the bofoms of the leaves, two on each: they 
are very large, and of a beautiful fcarlet. 
The feed-veffels are long and brown. 
It is a native of Africa, and flowers in July. 
Plukenet calls it Lotus fruticofior Africana foliis 
incanis floribus binis amplis coccineis. 
The common kinds of /ofus are gently aftrin- 
gent. Two or three kinds have been called b= 
morrboidales, from their effect in ftopping the 
bleeding of the piles: but their virtues in that 
refpect are not very confiderable. The Spanifh 
and French kinds, called dorycniym, are accounted 
poifonous. 
Mr. Ray, by an overfight, adds to this clafs 
the plant called climbing fumitory, the fumaria cla- 
viculis donata: but that is properly a fpecies of 
the genus whofe name it bears, fumaria; and will 
be defcribed in its place among the plants of that 
title, which belong to a different clafs, 
Th END of the EIGHTEENTH CLASS, 
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