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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
compofed of three or four pairs of pinna regu- 
larly placed, with a tendril growing from the end. 
The pinns are oblong, narrow, and fharp- 
pointed, of a deep green, and not at all indented 
at the edges. 
The flowers are placed on long, flender pe- 
dicles rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, fevc- 
ral of them fl:anding in a row one over another 
on each pedicle ■, and they are large, and of a 
mixed colour, partly red and partly blue. 
The pods are large and (lender, and the feeds 
are roundilh. 
We have it in the neighbourhood of London, 
and many other places among bufhes. It flowers 
in July. 
Kay calls it Fia(i Litkyriformi^, five vidn la- 
thynides mftras. Merret, Latbyrus ex cmdeo &' 
rubra mixtiil. It is the only fpecies of clymemtin 
we have wild. 
DIVISION II. 
Long-leaved Clymenum. 
Clymemm folih longioribus. 
The root is compofed of numerous flender 
fibres, connefted to a fmall head. 
The ftalk is weak, flatted, and of a pale green, 
very flightly edged ; and, when tolerably fup- 
ported, it will grow to four feet high. 
The leaves Hand thick upon it, and are pin- 
nated : each is compofed of three or four pairs of 
very fine, long, and narrow pinnEB ; which are 
fliarp pointed, not at all dentated at the edges, 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
and of a beautiful pale green ; the rib on which 
thefe ftand is terminated by a long fine tendril. 
The flowers grow from the bofoms of the 
leaves on long flender footftalks ; and they are 
large and purple. 
The feed-veflel is long and flender, and the 
feeds are roundifh and brown. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
Morifon calls it halhyrus angujlifolius leptoma- 
crolohm Jemine rotundo. Others, Clymenum ha~ 
krum. 
G E N U S IV. 
YELLOW VETCHLING. 
A P H A C A. 
THE flower is of the papilionaceous form, and is compofed of four petals. The vexillum is large, 
nipp'd at the extremicj', and turned back at the top and fides. The ate are fliort, crooked, and 
obtufe. The carina is broad, of al;alf-round fliape, and fplit in the middle. The cup is of a bell- 
like fliape, and is divided into five irregular fegments at the edge : the two upper ones are fhort, and 
the nn"le under one is very long. The pod is oblong and rounded. The leaves aic placed in pairs 
upon the fl:alk, and are of a three-cornered ftiape. 
This is a very Angular genus: there is but one known fpecies of it, and that is a native of Britain. 
We are unhappy in wanting an Englifli generical name for it, for that ui yellow i-etcblmg feems to re- 
fer to another genus. As I have a diflike to inventing new names, I fliall advife the ftudent to ufe 
the Latin one aphaca. 
Linnajiis places this among the diadelphia decandria ; the ftamma being ten, and formed into par- 
cels, nine in one, and a Angle one in the other ; but he confounds it, among feveral other genera, 
with the lathyrus. He does not allow the leaves of this plant to be properly fuch, but only a kind of 
ftipute, fuch as others of the pea and lathyrus kin£ have upon the ftalk, at the places where the 
proper 
leaves rife. But this is a forced thought. The leaves are as properly and perfediy leaves as 
tliofe of any other plant ; and their great Angularity perfcdly diftinguiOies the genus from all others 
of the papilionaceous leguminous clafs. 
Yellow Vetchling. 
Aphaca. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk rifes ufually Angle, and frequently 
is not at all branched : it is round, almofl: up- 
right, and not more than a foot high. 
The leaves are numerous, and they are very 
fingular: they are of a triangular figure, broad, 
fiiarp-pointed, and terminated by two points at 
the corners of the bafe : they ftand two together 
at the joints, and are of a pale and fomewhat 
■yellowiiii green. From the bofoms of thefe there 
rife tendrils ; but the plant is low, and tolerably 
flrrong ; fo that it wants them lefs than many other 
kinds. 
The flowers are fiipported fingly on flender 
footfl:alks, and they are moderately large and 
yellow. 
The pod is oblong, and the feeds are roundiHi. 
It is found in many parts of England on dry 
hilly paftures, and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Vicia lutea foliis cenvohoU 
mimrls. Others, Aphnca. 
The feeds of the aphaca are faid to be ufeful 
againft epileptic diforders; but there is no good 
authority for crediting it. 
GENUS 
