390 DIADELFHIA DECANDRIA. 



water, and make an agreeable fermented liquor 

 . with them. They have a fweet talle, fomething 

 like the roots of liquorice, and when boiled, we 

 are told, are well flavour'd and nutritive, and in 

 times of Icarcity have ferv'd as a fubflitute for 

 bread. 



fylvaticus 2 OROBUS caulibus decumbentibus hlrfuris ramofis. 

 Lin. Jyft. 7iat. 485. Sp.'pl. 102^. (A^. Paris, 1706. 

 p, S7. t. 90. ^Jig. noji.) 



Wood-Vetch, or Bitter- Vetch. Jnglis. 



Upon dry rocky places, and the banks of rivers, 

 but rare. We obferved it upon the bank of the 

 Clyde^ near Lanerk, between the two famous falls 

 of Corry^ s-hyn and Bonnatyn^ and in the ifland 

 of Runiy on the bank of a rivulet running down 

 a mountain called Baikevall % . VII. 



Many hairy recLning angular ftalks, about a foot 

 high, arife from the fame root, and, as far as we 

 obferved, unbranched : the leaves grow alter- 

 nate, ten or twelve upon a flalk •, they are pin- 

 nated, and generally hairy j the number of pima 

 are from feven to eleven pairs, of an oval acute 

 form, ftanding on fliort pedicles on a hairy rib, 

 which is not terminated with an odd pinna^ but a 

 fmall point or beard: xhtJlipuU grow in pairs, 

 fhaped each like half the perpendicular fedion 

 of the barb of an ah'ow : the flowers grow ten 

 or twelve together, in a clofe fpike or duller, 

 all leaning the fame way, upon a hairy pedun- 

 cle as \oi\g as the leaf, and ariling from the ala 



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