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Pl.58. 
Fig. 1. 
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CoMPLEAT Bopy of GARDENING. 
SEES IEE oS aI SSSI SESE UI SEO S RIO IESE SIS ISS SISSIES ISTO FEI Ri 
NUMBER LVIII. 
For the Jatter End: of O GTO B BR: 
wo Lausanne 
SEO TON L 
FLORA, or the PLEASURE GARDEN. 
CM Ae 4. 
Cd 
: DWARF EVERGREEN PHASEOLUS. 
PrAHIs very fingular and delicate. little 
Plant, is extreamly worthy the Atten- 
their Colour is a tawny redifh on the Outfide, O&ob. 
and a delicate yellow within: they rife from the ———= 
tion of the Gardener : the wild Freedom Bofoms of the Leaves ufually two together fomeé- 
of its Growth, and Singularity of its Afpect, 
make very good Amends for the Pains of raifing 
and preferving it. Thofe who have written of 
the American Plants have named it ; but the early 
Writers could have no Knowledge of it, for ’tis 
not found native in any other Part of the World. 
Breynivus calls it Phafeolus minimus perennis 
‘Americanus, flore luteo foliis afari lanuginofis folt- 
tariis: fmall American perennial Phafeolus, with | 
yellow Flowers, and fingle hoary Leaves refem- 
bling thofe of dfarabana. Commeine, who 
raifed it in the Am/ferdam Garden, preferved the 
fame Name ; and others after him. 
The Root is whité, thick, and hung with many 
Fibres.” - | 
THe Stalks are numerous, weak, and of a pale 
green, often ting’d toward the Bottorn with pur- 
ple. They lie upon the Ground, or twift them- 
- Felves about Sticks, or entangle in various Ways. 
with any otlier: this is a Token of Neglect; and 
the beft Method is to allow them flight Sup- 
ports. 
The Leaves ftand 
the Stalks; they are roundifh, but indénted for 
the Footftalks. Theit Colour is a deep blackith 
green, and they are cover’d with a light greyifh 
Their Foorftalks are long, and often 
Hoarynefs.. 
a RE ae 
The Flowers are minute, but very pretty - 
“Numb, LVOL 
finely, and irregulatly on | 
times fingly, fornetimies more than two, ard they 
are fucceeded by oblong Pods’; containing fome- 
times only one, rarely moré than two Seeds. 
Fach Flower has its Cup divided into fivé Seg- 
ee is : -f oe i ; fe : 
‘ments, in fuch manner as to reprefent two Lips : 
the upper one form’d of two, the lower of three 
of the Segments. | 
THe Flower itfelf is papilionacedus: 
The Vexillum is obtufe, heart-fhaped, and: 
turn’d back at the Edges. | 
The Ala are oval, and have long Bottoms, 
and they are nearly as long as the Vexillum. 
The Carina is narrow, and turn’d about in a 
| {piral Manner. 
In the Centre are ten Filaments : nine of themi 
 coalefce into a Body, and one ftands loofe: they 
are placed within the Carina, and twifted with 
it. The Style is fingle, and is twifted with them. 
It rifes from an oblong, compreffed, hairy Ru- 
diment of the Pod, and is terminated by a thick, 
hairy Stigma or Head. ; 
The Coalefcence of the Bodies of the Fila- 
ments is the Mark of the Clafs in this Inftance ; 
it refets the Plant to the Diadelpbia, and their 
Number being ten, to the Decandria; this being 
only a fubordinate Diftinction in Clafies, whofe 
Charaéter is taken from other Circumftances. 
8M Culture 
