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The ftalks are v/cak, and unable to fupport them- 

 felves without climbing : the leaves are pinnated, 

 the pinn^ grow alternate upon footftalks, and 

 are compounded of two, three, four or five el- 

 liptical incure fo/iola : the compound leaf is ter- 

 minated with a dichotomous tendril : the flowers 

 are ftraw-color'd, and grow in fliort fpikes : the 

 Jiliqu^ are fhort and linear, and contain about 

 three feeds. 



O C T A N D R I A. 



POLYGALA. Gen. pi. 851. 

 CaL 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus alasformibus, colo- 

 ratis. Legtmen obcordatum, biloculare, 

 vulgaris u POLYGALA floribus criftatis racemofis, caulibus 

 herbaceis fimplicibus procumbentibus, foliis li- 

 neari-lanceolatis. Sp. pi. q86. (Ger. em. ^6^. f. 

 2, 3, 4, ^ 564. /. 5. Faill. pans, t, ^l. f. i. 

 hon, Oed. Dm. t. 516. opt.) 

 Milkwort. Anglis, 



In heaths and dry paftures very common. %. VI. 

 The ftalks are about five or fix inches long, feveral 

 arifing from the fame root : the leaves are firm, 

 fmooth, entire, and grow alternate upon the 

 (lalks, which are terminated with fpikes of 

 flowers moil: comrnonly blue, but often red, or 

 white : the calyx confifts of five leaves, three of 

 which are fmall and green, two below and one 

 above the Corolla , the other :wo intermediate 



ones 



