DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 3^9 



Wood-Pcafc, or Hcath-Peafc. Anglis. 



Corr, Cor-meille. Gaulis. 



In mountainous paftures and woods very frequent, 

 both in the highlands and lowlands. %, VI. 



The root confifts of tough fibres, fwelling here and 

 there into irregular tubercles, each of which pro- 

 duces a flalk about a foot high, having foliaceous 

 or winged angles, and branched only a little at 

 the top : the leaves grow alternate upon the ftalk, 

 about three or four in number, each confifting 

 of two or three pair of imooth pinfj^, the lower- 

 moll; oval, the uppermoft acutely elliptical, hav- 

 ing no odd one at the end, but the rib to which 

 they are annexed is terminated with a point or 

 beard : the flowers are of a purple color, verg- 

 ing to blue, and grow from two to five in a thin 

 ipikc, upon naked peduncles, arifmg from the 

 aU of the leaves near the top of the flalk : the 

 VexiUuniy or upper petal of the flower is large, 

 oval and vein'd ; the margins rcflex'd and ele- 

 vated : the pod is above an inch long, cylindri- 

 cal, a little curved at the end, and contains from 

 four to nine feeds, 



The highlanders have a great eftecm for the tuber- 

 cles of the roots of this plant *, they dry and 

 chew them in general to give a better relifli to 

 their liquor ; they alfo affirm them to be good 

 againfl mod diforders of the thorax, and that by 

 the ufe of them they are enabled to repel hunger 

 and thirfl for a long time. In Breadalbane and 

 Rofsjhire they fometimes bruife and fleej) them in 

 C c 3 water, 



