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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The flowers ftaiid in a kind of fpikes, on long, 
flender foocftalics riling from the bofoms of the 
leaves ; and tht-y are large and red. 
The pods are fliort and crefced ; fo that they 
refemble in fome degree a cfi-^V ccnib ; whence the 
plant has its name. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
It is found wild in dry, hilly paflures, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
C. Eauhine calls it Onoh'ychis foliis vid.r friiBu 
echinato majori. 
It is fown in fields for the food of cattle, in the 
manner of clover ; and it anfwers the farmer's 
purpofe much better. Nothing is a greater im- 
provement in the modern hufbandry than the in- 
troducing of this plant. We received the feeds 
from France, where it has been long ufed ; and 
now it is once upon a footing in our country, it 
will not lofe its place again. It is wonderful the 
ufe of it fliould have been fo long either unknown 
or negle£led among us. It has been famous for 
tlie fame purpofe thefe two thoufand years : the 
Greeks cultivated it; and, from its caufing plenty 
of milk in their cows, called it pohgaloru 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Prickly-headed Cockfcomb. 
Onohrychis Jiiiquis echinalis tnagnis. 
The root is flender and white, long, and fur- 
niflied with a few fibres. 
The iirft leaves are pinnated in a regular man- 
ner; each confifts of eight or ten pairs of nar- 
row, pointed pinnx upon a middle rib : and there 
is an odd one at the end ; their colour is a pale 
green. 
The flalks are numerous, weak, and of a 
whitifli colour : they often trail upon the ground, 
and fcldom rife to more than ten inches high. 
The flowers fland at the tops in great cluflers, 
and arc of a pale red. 
The feed-veflel is large and prickly, and con- 
tains a fingle large kidney-fhaped feed. 
It is a native of the fouth of France, and 
flowers in Augufl. It is found near the fca- 
coafls. 
C. Bauhine calls it Onohrychis fru£lu echinato 
minor. 
SERIES 11. 
Foreign- Genera. 
Thofe of which there is no fpecies naturally wild in this country. 
G E N U S I. 
HATCHET VETCH. 
II E V) r S A RU M. 
THE flower is of the papilionaceous form. The vexillum is long and comprefied, and it is 
nipped at the end. The alas are long and ftraic. The carina is ftrait, comprelTed, and broadelt 
in the.outer part ; and it is, as it were, cut off, and fplit a part of its length. The cup is formed of 
a fingle piece, and is divided into five fegments : thefe are long, narrow, ftrait, and fliarp-pointed ; 
and they remain when the flower is fallen. The feed-vefiel is of an oblong form, and is compofed 
of feveral joints, hung together in the manner of a chain. 
Linnceus places this among the dicdelphici decaadria ; the threads in the flower being divided into 
two affortmcnts, nine in one, and a fingle one for the other. 
He joins this and the onsbrychis^ as we h.ave obferved, under one head : but the difl:in£lion is ob_ 
vious and great j the feed-veflc! of the D}iobrychis being but a fingle piece, and containing only a fingle 
feed, and that of the hadyfarum being compofed of many fuch pieces linked together, and containing 
feveral feeds. 
Where the diflinclions are thus certain, it is very wrong to confound the genera, for the fcience is 
rendered eafy by the number of thofe diftindtions. 
As we have no proper EngUfii name for this genus, the beft method wiil be always to ufe the 
Latin one hsdyfnrum. We have added the common received Englifii term ; but, being compofed of 
two words, it is wrong lor a generical diflinftion. 
French Honeyfuckle. 
Htdyfarum filiifuis articida'.is riigofis. 
The toot is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, long, and pinnated : 
they are compofed each of five or fix pairs of pin- 
nae ; which are large, broad, and of adulky green, 
and have an odd one of hke figure at the end. 
The ftalks are numerous, upright, and of a 
pale green : they are not much branched, and 
are of a tough fubftance. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root i but they arc of a pale and yellowilh green. 
The 
