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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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CATERPILLARS. 
SCORPIOIDES. 
npHE flower is papilionaceous. The vexilium is of a roundifn form, turned back at the top, and 
nipped at the extremity. The alae are of an oval form, and have a fmall appendage. The ca- 
rina is of the form of a crefcent, and is fplit on the lower part. The cup is flatted, formed of a fingle 
piece, and lightly divided into five fegments. The fced-veffel is long, rough, and twilled ; and the 
feeds are roundifli. 
Linnsus places it among the diaddphia decandria \ the threads of the flower being ten, and ar- 
ranged in the fame manner as in the preceding genera. He diflikes the old name fcorpioides, and calls 
it fcarpiurus. Our people call it caterpilkrs, from the (hape of the pods. 
Long-leaved Caterpillars. 
Scurpioides foliis longicrihus indivifis. 
The root is long, flendcr, yellow, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous fibres. 
The fl:alks arc round, weak, of a pale green, 
and two feet in length, but not perfeflly upright. 
The leaves are oblong and undivided, obtufe 
at the ends, and not fo much as notched along 
the edges : they are of a bkiifli green. - 
The flowers are placed two together on the tops 
of very long and flender footftalks riling from the 
bofoms of the leaves : they are fmall, but of a fine 
gold yellow. 
The fced-veflel is hairy, long, fiender, and 
turned or twifted round, and is brown : the feeds 
are fmall, and alfo brown. 
It is wild in Spain and Italy, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scorpioides Beuplcuri folio. 
J. Bauhine, Scorpioides filiqua campoide hifpida. 
Our gardeners. The caterpillar plant . 
Neither this, nor the generality of the former 
fpecies, are dillinguifhed by any particular vir- 
tues. They are of the pulfe kind ; and therefore 
their feeds would becat.ible, if larger, and better 
flavoured. Their Angularity gives them a place 
in gardens. 
the EN D of the SEVENTEENTH CLASS. 
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