Order IV. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
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10213 Herbaceous, Leaves pinnated equal, Head terminal 1-sided, Flowers oblique 
10214 Herbaceous, Leaves pinnated equal silky, Spike peduncled ovate 
10215 Herbaceous, Leaves pinnated unequal. Head solitary stalked. Pods hooked blunt shorter than calyx 
10216 Herbaceous, Cauline leaves ternate : radical pinnate unequal tritid or simple 
10217 Herbaceous, Leaves pinnated unequal, Pedunc. lateral longer than leaf. Heads leafless 
10218 Shrubby, Leaves pinnated equal silky, Bractes as long as globose many-flowered head 
10219 Shrubby, Leaves pinnated equal and ternate villous, Jlowers spiked 
10220 Shrubby, Leaves pinnated : floral ternate 
10221 Shrubby, Leaves ternate unequal. Calyxes woolly lateral 
10222 Shrubby, Leaves ternate linear-cuneate somewhat stalked, Calyxes campanulate, Branches spiny 
10223 Shrubby, Petioles spiny, Leaves pinnated, Flowers axillary subsessile, Cal. inflated 
10224 Shrubby spiny. Leaves simple 
10225 Leaves in fours cuneate rounded. Stipules undivided. Stem nearly smooth 
10226 Cal. altern. without appendage : upper hp emarginate ; lower entire 
10227 Cal, whorled without appendage : lower lip entire. Stem and leaves hairy 
10228 Cal. altern. without appendage : upper lip entire; lower 3-toothed 
10229 Cal. altern. with an appendage : upper lip entire ; lower 3-toothed 
10230 Cal. half-whorled with an appendage : upper lip bifid ; lower about 3-toothed 
10231 Cal. altern. with an appendage : upper lip 2-parted; lower 3-toothed 
10232 Leaves digitate, Cal. whorled without append. Upper lip emarg. ; lower bifid, Pods 2-seeded 
10233 Cal. altern. with an appendage : upper lip half-bifid ; lower obscurely 3-toothed 
10234 Cal. whorled with an appendage : upper iip 2-parted ; lower entire 
10235 Cal. altern. with an appendage : upper lip 2-fid ; lower entire. Leaflets linear-lanceolate flat 
10236 Cal. altern. with an appendage : upper lip 2-fid ; lower subtrifid. Leaflets linear channelled 
10237 Cal. whorled with an appendage : upper lip 2-parted ; lower 3-toothed 
10238 Cal. half-whorled with an appendage : upper lip 2-fid ; lower undivided, Leaves simple obi, villous 
10239 Shrubby, Cal. whorled without appendage stalked : lips acute entire 
10240 Teeth of calyx 4 blunt, one acuminate 
13 Leaflets emarginate. Calyxes hoary 
10241 Smoothish, Leaves on short stalks blunt at each end. Spikes solitary short. Pods 1-seeded 
10242 Leaves on short stalks without a point obtuse smooth. Spikes long panicled downy 
10243 Hoary, Leaflets subsessile ovate-elliptical acute mucronate, Spikes panicled hoary 
10244 Said to be the same as A. raicrophyila 
10245 Ferruginous, Spikes simple clustered. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate downy mucronate 
10246 The only species 
10247 Raceme solitary shorter than leaves, Pedunc. 2, Bractes less than cal. spreading. Pods pendulous 
10248 Raceme solitary length of leaves, Pedunc. 2, Bractes less than cal. appressed. Pods pendulous 
10249 Pods scymetar-shaped somewhat lunate smooth 
10250 Vexillum of flowers revolute. Calyxes whole colored 
10251 Peduncles subcapitate, Seeds 4.cornered cylindrical powdery 
10252 Peduncles thicker than petiole capitate. Wings subfalcate deformed. Pods linear straight 
10253 Flowers capitate, Cal. bracteate, Vexill. short. Wings expanded very large, Leaflets deltoid oblong 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
of the soil : but this is a very doubtful explanation. The species are border flowers, in much esteem for their 
velvet-like leaves and fine large flowers. They are vigorous growing plants, and most of them would afford 
the agriculturist a considerable bulk of herbage. 
L. albus is supposed to be the species that was cultivated for this purpose by the Romans ; though L. luteus 
is what is at present grown in the fields in the south of Italy as human food. In the south of France, it is 
grown in poor dry extensive plains, as a meliorating crop to be ploughed in where no manure is to be had, 
and the ground is too sterile for clover or other better plants. {Villars.) The perennial and ligneous species 
may be increased by pieces of the root, but they all seed freely. 
1545. Amorpha. From a,, privative, and f^o^ipr}, form, in allusion to the deformity of the corolla, which has 
neither alas or carina. A. fruticosa was once used in Carolina as an indigo plant, but is now neglected. All 
the species are of easy cultivation, and increase by seeds or cuttings in sand. 
1546. Abriis. From oiS^o?, elegant. The roots are used in the West Indies similarly to those of our liquorice, 
and the seeds are strung and worn as beads for ornaments, and also as rosaries, whence the specific name 
precatorius. They are frequently thrown, with other West Indian seeds, on the north-west coast of Scotland. 
Linnzeus affirms, that they are very deleterious ; but they are eaten in Egypt, though the hardest and most 
indigestible of the pulse tribe. In our stoves the plant requires a good deal of rooin and heat in order to 
flower freely. It is generally raised from seed, but cuttings will root in sand plunged in heat. 
1547. Phaseolus. From pliaselus, a little boat, which the pods may easily be supposed to resemble. P. 
vulgaris and multiflorus, Haricot, Fr., Sckminkbohne, Ger., Faginolo, Ital., are well known culinary legumes. 
The dwarf kidney bean is earlier than the other, and better adapted for forcing ; but much the largest crop^ 
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