Lotus corniculatus. Birds-foot Trefoil. 



LOTUS Linnai Gen. PL Diadelphia Decandria. 



Legumen cylindricum, itrictum. Ala furfum longitudinaliter conniventes* 

 Cal. tubulofus. 

 Rail Syn. Gen. 23. Herbje flore papilionaceo seu leguminosje. 



LOTUS corniculatus capitulis depreffis, caulibus decumbentibus, leguminibus cylindricis patentibus, 



Lin. Syjl. Vegetab. p. $j6. 

 LOTUS floribus umbellatis ; filiquis cylindricis; re&iffimis. Hatter, hijl. hefo. p. 572. n. 3. 

 LOTUS corniculatus. Scopoli Fl. Carniol. p. 86. 



LOTUS five melilotus pentaphyllos minor glabra. Bauhin Pin. 332. 

 TRIFOLIUM fiUquofum minus. Gerard, emac, 1191. Rati Syn. 334, Birds-foot Trefoil. 



Hud/on Flor. Angl. p. 288. 



Lightfoot Flor. Scot, p. 411. 



RADIX perennis, fubfufiformis, in terram alte defcen- t ROOT perennial, tapering, {hiking deeply into the - 



dens. I earth. 



CAULES plurimi, tenues, procumbentes, fubquadrati, % STALKS feveral, {lender, procumbent, fomewhat 



pedales, ramofi, | fquare, afoot in length, and branched. 



FOLIA terna, ovata, mucronata, foliolo medio bafi ^ LEAVES growing three together, ovate, terminating 



anguftata, glabra aut hirfutula. % in a fhort point, the middle leaf narrowed at 



I its bafe, lmooth or (lightly hirfute. 



STIPULiE duae, foliis quodammodo fimiles at magis % STIPULiE two, in fome degree like the leaves, but 



latae et acuminatae. | broader, and more pointed. 



FLORES fubumbellati, ad 12, petiolis nudis longis | FLOWERS growing fomewhat in the form of an urn- 



inlidentes. I bell, to twelve, fitting on long foot-ftalks. 



CALYX: Perianthium tubulofum: infra medium 1 CALYX: a Perianthium tubular, below the mid- 



annulo prominulo cinclum, quinquedentatum, % die furrounded by a prominent ring, having 



dentibus fetaceis, hirfutulis, duobus iuperio- | five teeth, which are fetaceous and a little 



ribus furfum tendentibusl, tribus inferioribus | hairy, the two uppermoft rifing upward, the 



reflexis, fig. 1. % three lowermoft. bending back, fig. 1. 



COROLLA papilionacea, flava : Vexillum reflexum, 1 COROLLA papilionaceous and yellow : the Vexil- 



fuperne aurantiacum, interne ad barm lineis % lum turned back ; on its upper part of an o- 



ocra circ'iter notatum : Alm duse, flavae, api- t range colour, underneath, at its bafe, marked 



cibus obtuiis : Carina in feme gibba, adfcen- | with about eight lines : Wings two, yellow 



dens, acuminata, fig. 2. ¥ and blunt at the tips : Keel gibbous below, 



I rifing upwards, and pointed, fig. 2. 



STAMINA: Filamenta decern, novem in tubum $ STAMINA: ten Filaments, nine uniting in a tube; 



coalita, fimplici libera, apicibus omnium di- | the fingle one loofe ; the tips of all of them 



latatis, albis : Ant'hekje parvae, flavae,^. 3, | dilated, and white: Anthers fmall and 



4, 5> 6 - I yellow, fig. 3, 4, 5, 6. 



PISTILLUM : Germen tenue, teretiufculum, incur- | PISTILLUM : Germen flender, roundiih, and bent 



vum : Stylus adfcendens, rectus: Stigma $ downward: Style rifing upwards, and 



minimum,^. 7, 8, 9. ftraight : Stigma very minute, fig. 7, 8, 9. 



PERICARPIUM : Legumen cylindricum, bivalve, | SEED-VESSEL: a cylindrical Legumen of two valves, 



ilthmis quafi interceptum, more raphani, J divided into a kind of cells, fomewhat in the 



fig. 10. I manner of the Radifh, fig. 10. 



SEMINA plurima, ultra xx, parva, mbreniformia, ^ SEEDS numerous, more than twenty, fmall, fome- 



maculata, fig. 11, 12. ? ' what kidney-fliaped, and fpotted, fig. 11, 12. 



THE following extract relative to this plant, is felected from the firft volume of Mr. Anderson's Ejfays 

 relating to Agriculture and rural affairs, page 419. 



While the practical remarks, and judicious hints, fcattered through this performance, mew the author to be a 

 man of real genius, and far fuperipr to the common run of writers on thefe fubjects, we cannot but regret, that a 

 want of botanic knowledge pervades the whole, and in fome degree, defeats the laudable defign of the ingenious 

 effayift. In no one plant, is this inaccuracy more obfervable than in the prefent, which we mall point out ; 

 hoping, that as the author has in fome parts of his work, fhewn himfelfwell acquainted with chemical know- 

 ledge, fome future edition may demonftrate, that he thought Botany equally worthy of his attention. 



" 'Milk-vetch, liquorice-vetch, or milk-wort, as it is differently called, — the *Afiragalus glycyphyllos of Hudfon, 

 " is a plant common in every part of the iOand; although it has never yet, that I have heard of, been attempted 

 " to be cultivated." 



" The general appearance of this humble plant, is, in fome refpedts, very like that of the common white- 

 " clover ; although its leaves upon a nearer examination are not exactly fimiiar to them. From the top of the 



" root 



*It is very evident, from the whole tenor of the authors defcription, that he has given a wrong name to the plant he wifhed to recommend. 

 The plant he defcribes, is the Lotus corniculatus of Hudson, or Birds- foot Trefoil, and not the AJtragahs Glycyphyllos, or Liquorice-Fctcb^ 

 which is by no means a common plant. 



