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of it : the flowers are white, llriated with purple 

 veins ; the apex of the ca7'ina is a bright purple : 

 the calyx is hairy and reddifh : the pods are hardly 

 an inch long, comprelTed and fmooth, and con- 

 tain about three feeds. 

 The whole plant has a difagreeable bitter tafte, 



LATHYRUS. Gen. pL 872. 



Stylus planus, fupra villofus, fuperne latior. CaL 

 lacinise fuperiores 2 brevioies. 



pratenfisi. LATHYRUS ptdunculis multifloris, cirrhis di- 

 phyllus fiaiplicilTimis, foliolis lahceolatis. Sf, pi. 

 1033. (^Ger. em. 1231./. 6. Rivin. t, 43 Bauh. 

 hijf. 2. p. 304. /. 304. Moris, hiji. f. 2. /. 2./. 

 2. Oed. Dan. t. 527. opt.) 



Yellow Vetchling, Tare-everlafting. Anglis. 



In meadows and paflures, where the foil is moiil, 

 both in the highlands and lowlands. %• VII, 

 VIII. 



The ftalks are branched, quadrangular, a cubit 

 long or more, weak, and unable to fupport them- 

 selves : the tendrils are generally fingle, but often 

 trifid, fubtended by one pair of oval-lanceolate 

 pinnc£^ which have three nerves, and are moft 

 commonly a little downy : xhtjiipula are haftate, 

 and as large as the pinna. : the floral ftalk is axil- 

 lary, and bears a fpike of eight or ten yellow 

 flowers : the pods are fliort, broadifh, and a lit- 

 tle curv'd : the feeds round and yellowilh. 



It 



