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the clofet attention, fearcel miffing a meridian view of the 
moorrduring that time, the weather was favourable, 
and performing the whole "pufinefs of the nt San without 
any affiftant. In 1729 he was admi af member of 
the Academy of § Sciences at: Paris, He lived to. We ne very ad- 
vanced age of 
He poffeffed 
mer, the naturalift, 
ae tie quaifaton neceflary for the A eee 
e fcholar, and the philofopher : he 
was candid in his ert: ; uniform and blamelefs in his The 
s communicative, and ace coment 
manners ; alwa 
His great qualifications were tem 
which neither his abftraéted fpeculations, 
-old age, nor the palfy itfelf were able to 1 at 
author of fome other works befides thofe already Sines: 
as “ A Biohiiidieal Tables, with précepts, for computing 
nets, and Comets. 
f Comets” coe to 
vein of 
the “fries. cof 
3 
Sad 
ee 
Bio; 
: ws ALLTA, i in Botany, fo named by Thunberg, appa- 
of Birge t Martin Hall, whofe Thelis, pub- 
Florum 
Poet find 
illd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. 1168.—Clafs and « 
ecandria. . Nat. Ord. Papilionaces; 
ot Ch. Cal Perianth inferior oF one Tea tubular, its 
in ~ Cor. papi 
Sie _ Sta = : ol ip 
n i f. * po ey or {Te 1, we _ ai 
= itm ample and nine-cleft, inflexed ; an- 
he roun » Ger : ” we ‘ = “s 
i Be. Tar Eeevar-obibng, famovtbs : 
pulas ae Thunb — Lea Native of the Cape of 
Hope. 
és, Fi: foci. Thunb.—#* Leaves 
fmooth. » the length 
mae Inari oon 
feng hs ete § Sorts teaee 
3 2 ESS _ Stn eer, wpe she 
| a a aun on ties 2 wi 3 arto 
ss! spa seep Beak acute, goer 
lar 
of alike?” 
very diflimilar 
. rightly diftingnithed th 
took «it for. 
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axillary, inated p gee fingle-flowered, about as long’ 
as t » having ‘a jeint, with two or three minute 
braéeas, near the top. some fmall, pale violet, variegated’ 
with ——_ and blue. 
é farina. Thunb. (Crotalaria ‘Afarina 5 Berg. 
Cap. tufe, ‘hairy. 
Stalks fingle-flowered, the length of the “Noa Stipules 
Hope. 
ong, flender, branched, trian- 
. rounder in 
Flowers much like — lait, on a Me oy 
ftalks. Petals cle neon veiny. 
Ss. 
of thes precedi in the aintifiag 
{pecies, thugh the other is the marked fj Lin- 
nzus in his copy of Bergius, has clearly diktinguithed them by 
ahnannbdeineasn ote, faying, my Glycine monophylla differs,” 
yroas -—_ a of eae) “in hace an upright tri-- 
em, and narrower leaves ; otherwife they are 
— H. hirta. Wi id. n Lens, elatines folio fingulari, 
minor, pilofa, floribus sisteny Blake Amalth. 131. t. 154+, 
fs & slsewspadersfpa tana, folio ; Petiv. Gazoph.t. 30. 
f. 11.)—Leaves baotenthaped, rounded, nearly feffile, fringed, 
without ftipulas.. attey Konig fearcely longer than 
leaf-ftalks.—Gathered by K at Tranquebar. Plukenet 
had it from Madras. Itis Ssiage that Bergius fhould quote 
his _v for the laft, but Willdenow has 
- Linneus, in his latter days, con- 
founded the prefent with his own Soren _— and Dahl 
Seateteoes 
, ails Gentle {pring 
from one root, spi Speen eee nd, ae rk witha 
multitude crowded alternate noes —_ pltie ick ftalks. 
ops poe a "ttle lapis 
dotted, tong: he A hares mae eh blige, Set erwile 
nearly al, rather . : cvlng the fot axillary, yon = ar 
= none 
about half as bag: as the Vener Phuket 
bably- ir this plant. 
7. H. imbricata. Thunb. (Hi honreies 
330. Thunb. Nov. AG. = Ve cant a fa) 
Ze diffe nd recto <few pe angular, 
: alt nmerocn ate edo 
