400 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



1233. /. 2. Rivin. /. 103. Moris, hift. f. 2. /. g. 



/. 8.; 



Wild Liquorice, or Liquorice Vetch. Anglis. 



In woods, but not common, as in Coryton woods, 

 five miles from Edinburgh, Dr. Parfons, %* VIL 



The flalks are two feet long, branched and proflrate: 

 the leaves have four or five pair of oval pinn^^ 

 with an odd one at the end : the peduncles are 

 Ihorter than the leaves, and arife from their al^^ 

 bearing a fhort fpikc of about 12 pale yellow 

 flowers, fucceeded by eredl, turgid and curved 

 pods, having each two cells, containing eight 

 or ten kidney- fhap'd feeds. 



The leaves have a fweetilh tafle, mix'd'with bitter- 

 nefs. An infufion of them has bpfome been 

 recommended in fuppreflions of urine, and for 

 the gravel. 



arenarius 2 ASTRAGALUS fubcaulefcens procumbens, flo- 

 ribus fubracemofis eredlis, follis tomentofis. 6p. 

 fL 1069. {Raii, Synop. p. 326. /. 12./. 3. cum k- 

 guminibus, bona,) 



Purple Mountain Milkwort. Anglis. 



On dry mountainous paftures, but not very com- 

 mon, as upon the hills in the king's park at 

 Edinburgh^ upon the fands of Muffelburgh, up- 

 on the hill of Moncreif^ near Perth^ and in dry 

 ground near Tcrk-Cafcade^ at the feac of the 

 Duke of yf/M's, ^i Blair, &c. it. VII. 



The ftalk, together with the peduncle, is from 



three 



