^8 8 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Many unbranched ilalks arife from the fame root, 

 I o or 12 inches high : the leaves are downy -, the 

 radical ones for the mod part fimple, and either 

 lanceolate or obtufely elliptical, with long foot- 

 ftalks, to which a fpurious pinna is fometimes 

 annexed : the ilalk-leaves are compound, having 

 three or four pairs of oval-lanceolate /);««<^, the 

 fmalleft at the bafe of the rib, with an odd ob- 

 tufe oval and larger one at the end : the upper 

 leaves have five or fix pair of /)/««^, which are 

 all equal ; the two Bra^e^, or floral leaves, are 

 either digitate or trifid, their fegments lanceo- 

 late : the flowers are commonly yellow, but are 

 fometimes feen red, or whitifli ; they grow in a 

 double head or clufter at the top of the fl:alks : 

 the calyx is hairy and inflated : the carina or keel 

 "of the flower is reddifli at the apex : the anthers 

 ftand on fine pedicles : the pod is likewife fup- 

 ported by a fhort pedicle, and contains on^ ktd. 



The plant is fuppofed to have an aftringent quality, 

 and is fcarcely ever eaten by cattle. 



OROBUS. Gen.pL 871. 

 Stylus linearis. Cal, bafi obtufus, laciniis fuperiori- 

 bus profundioribus, brevloribus. 

 luherofusi. OROBUS foliis pinnatis lanceolatis, fl:ipulis feml- 

 fagittatis integer! imis, caule fimplici. 6^. pL 

 1028. {Ger, em. i^o^j,/. 2. Moris, hijt. f. 2. /. 

 21./. ^. ordinis medii ad dextram. Thai, harc^ 7. 

 t. I. Rivin. t. 59. Sibbald. Scot, illufl. p,ii, f. J. 

 Loes. Truff. 138. /. :?7. bona.) 



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