ORNITHOPUS PERPUsILLUS. CoMMoN Birp’s-Foor.., 
ORNITHOPUS = Liwn. Cen. P Drassysdra DEGANDRIA, 
Legumen articulatum, teres, arcuatum. 
Rau Syn, Gen. 23. HERB& Fiore PariLIONACEO seu LeGuminosa. 
ORNITHOPUS perpujillus folus pmnatis, leguminibus incurvatis. Linn. Syff. Vegetab. ed. 14... Murr. 
$. 670. Spec. PL. p. 1049. 
ORNITHOPODIUM caule proftrato, foliis pinnatis, filiquis umbellatis, articulatis. Ha//. Hf. a. 393- 
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ORNITHOPODIUM minus. Ger. emac. 1241. 
ORNITHOPODIUM majus —, minus —, radice tuberculis nodofa, Baub. Pin. 350. 
ORNITHOPODIUM radice nodofa. Park. 1093. Razi Syn. p. 326. Birds-foot. Hudfon Fl. Angl. 
ed. 9. p. 321. Lightfoot FI. Scot. p. 399. 

RADIX annua, tenuis, fibrofa; fibris longis, albidis, 6 ROOT annual, flender, fibrous; fibres long, whitifh, 
tuberculiferis. befet with tubercles. 
CAULES plures, fubpalmares, proftrati, fimplices, $ 
STALKS feveral, about a hand's-breadth in length, 
teretes, pubefcentes. 
proftrate, fimple, round, downy. 
) LEAVES pinnated, the radical ones fpread on the 
ground, and ftanding on fhort footítalks, thofe 
of the ftalks alternate, feffile, compofed of 
from 6 to 9 pair of pmne, and often termi- 
nated by an odd one, oval, fomewhat keeled, 
and hairy if magnified. 
FOLIA pinnata, radicalia proftrata, fubpetiolata, cau- 
lina alterna, feffilia; foliola 6 ad 9 juga, faepe 
cum impari, ovalia, fubcarinata, per lentem 
pilofa. 

FLORES parvi, ex albo, rubro, et luteg pulchre va- 0 FLOWERS TR prettily variegated with white, red, 
regati; pedunculi ex axillis foliorum 9-5 § and yellow, peduncles proceeding from the 
flori, longitudine folii alae of the leaves and of the fame length, fup- 
porting from three to five flowers. 
CALYX: UwszrLA fimplex. PrRiANTHIUM mo-( 
nophyllum, tubulatum, pilofum, perfiftens, ¢ 
ore quinquedentato, fubzquali, fg. 1. : 
CALYX: the UwzEL fimple. The PzaiíANTHIUM 
monophyllous, tubular, hairy, ‘permanent, 
the mouth having five teeth, nearly equal, 
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vix emarginatum, album, venis rubris pictum, date, {carcely emarginated, white, marked 
jig. 2. Ar ovate, reCtm, alba, magnitu- with red veins, fig. 2. Wiucs ovate, ftraight, 
dine vix vexilli, fg. 3. Carina compreffa, white, {carcely fo long as the ftandard, f. 3. 
flavefcens, minima, jig. 4. Keex flattened, yellowifh, very minute, fg. 4. 
STAMINA ; Fitamenta diadelpha, fimplex et no- 
vemfidum, fig. 5. ANTHER4# fimplices, fla- 6. one fingle, fg. 5. ANTHER# fimple and 
velcentes, jig. 6. yellowith, fig.6. A 
STAMINA: FiLAMENTS diadelphous, nine united, 
PISTIL.LUM: Geren lineare, viride; Srvrvs feta- 9 PISTILLUM ; Germen linear, green; Sr vs taper- 
ceus, afcendens; Stigma punttum terminale, ing, afcending; SriGMA a terminal pomt, 
ad lentem fubcapitatum, jg. 7. forming when magnified a little head, jg. 7. 
PERICARPIUM: Lzcuwzw fubulatum, teres, arcu- : SEED-VESSEL: an awl-fhaped, round, bowed, jointed 
atum, articulatum, iftthmifque interceptum, Q Pop with crofs divifions, feparating at the 
articulatim difcedens, fig. 8, 9. ( joints, fz. 8, 9. 
SEMINA folitaria, fubrotunda, fg. 10. 9 SEEDS one in each joint, roundifh, fig. 10. 
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The Ornithopus perpufillus abounds on moft of the heaths and commons near London, efpecially where the 
foil is gravelly or fandy. 3 
It flowers from June to September. 
The beauty of its flowers when clofely examined, and the ftriking fimilitude which the feed-veffels bear to 
the claws of a bird, render it an object highly deferving of attention. dics 
It varies greatly in point of fize; the little knobs adhering to the roots are common to plants of the leguminous 
kind, 
