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fnpported on pedicles than thofe of the preced- 

 ing fpccies : the flowers are pendulous. 

 It has been proved, by fowing the feeds, to be a 

 diftindt fpecies from the foregoing, but in the 

 cultivated flate was obferved to produce from 12 

 to lAj flowers in a clufl:er on each common pe- 

 duncle. 



LOTUS. Gen, pL 879. 



Legumen cylindricum, ftridlum. AU furfum longi- 



tudinaliter connlvens. Calyx tubulofus. 



corniculatus LOTUS capitulis depreflls, cauliDus, decumben* 

 j^ tibus, leguminibus cylindricis patentibus. Sp,pL 



1092. (Ger. em, 1190./. 5. Rivin. /. 76. Moris. 

 hifi,J, 2. t, 18./. 10 ^ II.; 

 Bird's -foot Trefoil, Anglts, 

 Bar-a'-mhilfein. Gaulis, 

 In meadows and pafl:ures common. %. VI-VIII> 



The fl:alks vary in length from fix inches to a 

 cubit, and are generally proilrate, but fometimes 

 nearly ere6t : the leaves are ternate, and com- 

 monly of an oval-lanceolate form, but fometimes 

 roundifli, and in other varieties narrow and al- 

 moll linear : the JiipuU grow in pairs, oval and 

 acuminated, much like the leaves : the pedun- 

 cles are axillary, and bear a coronet of four or 

 five yellow flowers : the vexillum is nearly oval, 

 plaited, eredt, fl:reaked with red lines, or even 

 quite red before it opens, and flands on a pedi- 

 cle 



