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DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Yellow CretlcKidneyvetch. 
Anthyllis Crctica fiore fiavo. 
The root is long, flender, and divided into 
numerous pares. 
The firil leaves are oblong, and undivided : 
they are of an inverted oval figure, broad, and 
rounded at the end, and narrow at the bale. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and branched : 
they are of a pale green, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves fland in an irregular manner on the 
ftalks, andarefmall; about five grow together 
in an odd pinnated manner; 
The flowers grow at the tops of the flalks and 
branches, and arc fmall and yel'ow ; eight or ten 
of them ftand together in a clufter. 
The feed-vefiels are fmal!, and they are con- 
tained in broad membraneous cafes. Thefe are 
formed of the cups of the flower, which IwcU 
into this fiiape and bignefs after it is fallen. 
The feeds are few and fmall. 
It is frequent in the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in Augufl. 
Profper Alpinus calls it 'TrifoVuin fakatum: a 
ftrange name, but others have copied it. 
GENUS XII. 
H O R S E- S II O E VETCH. 
HIPFOCREPIS. 
r»~lHE flower is conipored of four petals, and is papilionaceous. The vexillum is heart-fafhioned, 
J- and lias a very long bottom. The ate are of an oval form, and are obtufe ; and the carina is 
flatted and hooked. The pod is crooked, long, flatted, and cut deeply in at fmall diftances all along 
the inner edge ; fo that it appears compofed of a number of little points, faftened by narrow ends 
to the edge of the back, The feeds are fmall, oblong, and hooked ; and one of them is lodged in 
every joint of the pod. 
The fin.t;ular form of the pod and feeds, which in fome degree refcmbles a horfe-dioe, has ob- 
tained it tire Latin name ferrum eqidnum, as well as the Englifli one horfi-Dloe vetch ; but it is better 
to ufe the more modern term hippacrepis, as it is a fmgle word ; for gencrical names fhould never 
confift of more. 
Linnxus places this among the diadelphia dicandria ; the threads being ten, and in two affortments, 
nine in one body, and another fingle. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
Tufted Horfe Ilioe Vetch. 
Hippocrcpis fdi^uis conferlis. 
The root is fmall, and divided into fcveral 
parts. 
The firft leaves are long, narrow, and pin- 
nated ; each is compofed of fix or more pairs of 
(hort, oval pinna: ; and they arc of a pale green : 
an odd leaf terminates each ; and this is no larger 
than the others. 
The flalks are numerous, flender, weak, 
branched, and eight or ten inches high. 
The leaves on ihefc are pinnated, and per- 
fcflly refcmble thofe from the root. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a gold yellow : 
they grow in a kind of round clufter at the top of 
the ftalk, and on long pedicles riflng from the bo- 
foms of the leaves ; and they are of long conti- 
nuance. 
The pods are long, crooked, and indented ; 
they hang from the tcotftalk in the manner of a 
rude and ragged head of hair ; whence fume have 
named the plant. 
It is found on high chalky grounds in many 
parts of the kingdom, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fertum eqiiinum Cermanicum 
JiHquis in fmimitate. Others, Ferrum equimm 
comofum. Some, Hedyfanm glycyrrhizatum. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Single podded Horfe-fhoc Vetch. 
Hippocrepis filiqins fingularilus. 
The root is long, thick, and furniftied with 
many fibi-es. 
The firft leaves are long, narrow, and pin- 
nated : each confifts of four or five pairs of pinns, 
with an odd one at the end ; and thefe are broad, 
fliort, and heart-fafliioned, fmalltft at the bafe, 
broadeft at the top, and indented at the er.d. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and low. 
The leaves on thefe are pinnated in the fame 
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manner as thofe from the root, and are of a pale 
green colour. 
The flowers ftand flngly on flender footftalks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves ; and they 
are fmall and yellow. 
The pod is long, fomewhat crooked, and 
deeply indented : the feeds are fmall, and crooked, 
in the lhape of an horfe-JJioe. 
It is frequent in Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Firrum equiiium f.liqim fm- 
gidari. 
GENUS 
