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ei in the upper lip. The root of the {pecimen figured 
Engl. Bot. is difeafed and {wollen, in confequence of the 
ace oF fone infect, probably a Cyni, ips. 
*** Bradeas none. 
17. O. uniflora. Single-flowered Broom-rape. n. 
Sp. Pl. 882. Willd. n. 12. (Gentianella minor aurea, flore 
fingulari amplo ieee pallidé flavefcente ; Pluk. Mant. 89. 
Phyt. t. 348. f. 3.)—Stems fingle-flowere alyx without 
any bra¢tea.—Native of Maryland and Virginia. The root 
is {mooth, fomewhat creeping, branched, thick, but fhort, 
rounded alternate fel and ie ought 
artl 
to be reckoned a fubterrane en rom within 
genus is very exceptionable. 
Willdenow unites with this genus the sr of Tourne- 
fort and Desfont. sage which we cannot but confider as 
Roxb. Coromand. v. 1. i" gi, and by 
: - 347. Its calyx is of one leaf, 
are and the capfwle of numerous cells. 
BOI , aname given by Hi apiece and other 
authors, to a furfuraceous fediment in the ur of perfons 
who have the jaundice: it is ufually of a reddith: brown 
colour ; oi is not peculiar to thit difeafe, but is found in 
fome other 
= 
i=} 
e 
3 
(ep) 
Us, in Botany, a name borrowed from the Greeks, 
» however, is generally fuppofed to be the 
Ervum, or Pare, of the Latins, a very different genus from 
ow call Orobus. Ambrofinus derives the word 
n ox, becaufe horned cattle, 
prone to t. Linn. Gen. 374. hreb. 496. illd 
p. P 1072 art. Mill. Di&. v. 3. . Fi. 
Brit. 761. Prodr. Fl. Grec. Sibth. v. 2. 63. Juff. 360 
ourn, - Lamarck Illuftr. t. 6 Gertn. t. 151. 
—Clafs aid order, en A Decandria. Nat. Ord. Papi- 
Leguminofe, Jufl. 
lionacea, Linn. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth oe of one leaf, tubular, 
obtufe at the bafe; its orifice oblique, with five very fhort 
teeth; the three lowermoft thar arpeft; the two uppermof& 
fhorteft, moft deeply and obtufely divided ; withering. Cor. 
papilionaceous. Standard inverfely heart t-fhaped, reflexed 
th it and fides, longer than the other petals. 
nearly sie to the ftandard, afcending, 
her. Keelm 
~? 
in nine divifions, : cu ape $3; anthers roundifh. 
Germen cylindrical, come ied ftyle thread-fhaped, bent 
upwards, erect ; tigm a linear, downy at the inner fide 
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from the middle to the top of the ftyle Perice. Leguns 
round, long, with a wad afcending point, of one c cell aud 
two valves. Seeds numerous, roundifh 
. Ch. Style linear, roundifh, downy above 
obtufe at the bale ; 3 its two upper fegments deepelt 
~ ft. 
. O. lathyroides. Upright Blue Bitter-vetch. Linn. Sp. 
Pl. 1024. ( Lathyro 
Cal iVS 
aod 
have oa it form erly. We 
at Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy’s in 1809, but it is of rare 
occurrence in gardens, though worthy of notice on account 
of its beautiful tufts, or fhort clufters, lue 
which partake of the elegance of hie 
colour, proper to this genus. root is perennial. 
eee a leafy, a foot ana half high. Leaves ie - 
nate, of two light-green, elliptical, more or let blunt, entire, 
{mooth leaflets, above an inch long, reticulated with copious 
veins, nearly feffile, with a oe briftle between them. 
7 aed br aii half-ar aped, varioufly toothed. 
qwer-ftalks axillary ; folitary, fhorter than the leaves, bear- 
he a clufter of eig ht or ten inodorou € 
r or five, ina long 
.Sp. Pla 
(O. ivaticn, 
t. 
w legume, with {piral valves. 
7 Pe Bitter-vetch. Linn 
t. 690, unpublifhed. 
ees circa enlen since: .C 
Strpulas entire, nearly 
as as big as the leaflet..—Native of fhady woods in Thrac 
ay; pang Sibthorp gathered it on 
Parnaflus, Hemu e Sphaciotic mountains of Crete. 
The flems are much aries than in the laft, and branched, 
but weak and trailing. Leaflets not half fo large, acute, 
with parallel veins, see ae at the edges, and {upported by 
an inch long, at whofe bafe ftands a 
rdens. 
. O. luteus. Yellow Bitter-vetch. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1028. 
(0. montanus ; Scop. Carn. v. 2. ee t. 41. O. ne1 
Gmel. Sib. v. 4. 13. t. 4. O. n. 4193 Hall. Helvet. 
O. aa quartus ; "Cut Pann. 741. 
v. 1. 182. Bit. 
v. ontanus, aoe er.em. 1248. Ga- 
lega montana ; ace 1 —Leaves pinnate, with 
T 
of mountains in Hungary, an 
beria, ee ing in M Dr. Sibt horp patie it on the 
; We have feen it cultivated by the pre- 
fent ong of Carlifle at Ealing, ly elfewhere, 
pecies, or ving varieties. e root is certainly perennial, 
Stems annual, numerous, two or three feet high, 
fometimes fimple, but moftly branched, leafy, a esa 
Leaves 
