The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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upon a Ihort footftalk, and two at its bafe : they 
are of a dufky green colour, and foft to the 
touch. 
The flowers ftand on pedicles rifing from the 
bofoms of the leaves, two ufiially on each ; and 
they are large and beautiful : their colour is crim- 
fun, and they have a look of velvet. 
The pods are fhort and thick, and have four 
membranous edges, which give them a fquare 
afpeft. 
The feeds are large and yellowifli. 
It is a native of Spain, but is in Tome parts of 
England cultivated in gardens for the fake of 
the feeds, which are pleafant and wholefome. 
Many eat them in the manner of peafe. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lotus ruber Jiiiqua angulofa. 
Our people, Crlmfon-pca^ or Vdvet-pea. 
2. Small fquare-poddcd Lotus, 
Lo£!is Jiiiqaa qiiadrata minor. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifiied with 
many fibres. 
The flalks are numerous, weak, and branched : 
they are eight or ten inches long, of a pale green, 
and a little hairy- 
The leaves ftand three on a very fliort foot- 
ftalk, and two at its bafe : they arc oblong, mo- 
derately broad, of a pale green, hairy, and fliarp- 
pointed. 
The flowers are large and yellow : they fl:and 
on long, flender footftalks, fometimes two toge- 
ther, Ibmetimes fingly. In fome places they are 
Striped, but not univerfally. 
The feed-veffel is long and flender : the feeds 
are numerous and brown. 
It is common in Italy, and the fouth of France. 
It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lotus pratcn/is Jiliquofia lu- 
teits. Others, Lotus qmdrata fihqua flore luteo. 
3. Great-podded Lotus, 
Lotus filiqiia crajfwre. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with 
a few fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, but tolerably 
upright, and a foot high. 
The leaves are broad, fliort, and fliarp-pointcd : 
they fl:and three on a footflratk, with two at the 
bafe of it ; and they are of a pale green, and a 
little hairy. 
The flowers fl-and fingly on long, flender foot- 
flaiks ; and are large and yellow. 
The pod is very large, and hangs down. 
The feeds are large and well-tafl:ed. 
It is a native of Crete, and flowers in Auguft, 
C. Bauhine calls it Lotus -pejitaphyllns filiqua 
corn:, t a. 
3. Cluflier-flowered Lotus. 
Lotus JlGribus fafckulatis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The flialks are firm, upright, and two feet 
]ris,h : thry are fmooth, branched, and of a pale 
green. 
The leaves fl;anu three on a footftalk, with two 
at its bafe : they arc oblong, broad, fliarp-pointed, 
and of a pale green. 
The flowers are feparately very fmall but they 
fl:and in thick tufts, and make a very confpicuous 
Aew : they are white, variegated with a little 
purple. 
The fecd-veflel is long and flender, and the 
feeds are roundifli, 
C. Bauhine calls it Lotus fdhiuofiis glaher fiove 
rotunda. 
It is a native of the w.irmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers toward the end of fummer. 
5. Hairy, v/hite-flowered Lotus, 
Lotus hirfutus jlore albo. 
The roots are woody, tough, and fpreading. 
The ifalks are alfo woody, and three or iour 
feet high : they are very much branched, and co- 
vered with a brown bark in the lower parts, and 
green in the upper. 
The leaves are very numerous and fmall : they 
are placed three together, with fcarce any foot- 
llalks, and two at the bafe : they are oblong, 
hairy, fliLirp-pointed, and of a pale green. 
The flowers grow in little tufts at the tops of 
the branches, and are fmall and white. 
The feed-veflTels are fmall alfo, and brown. 
It is frequent in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in Augufl:. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lotus fentaphyllus villofus. 
Others, Trifolhmi h^morrhoidale majus. 
6, Great-flowered woolly Lotus; 
Lotus lanuginofus flore majore albicante. 
The root is woody, tough, divided, and fpread- 
ing. 
The fl:alks are numerous, flirubby, and firm ; 
and the whole plant has a white, woolly afpeft. 
The leaves fl:and three together, with two others 
at the bafe. This is the proper and perfed man- 
ner of their growth i but fometimes one or both 
the lower ones are wanting. 
They are /hort, broad, and white , and are 
covered with a kind of woolly matter. 
The flowers are large and white : they fliand in 
little roundifli c!ufl:ers on the tops of very flender 
footilalks. 
The feed-veflel is long and flender: the feeds 
are roundifli. 
It is a native of all the warm parts of Europe, 
and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lotus pentaphyllus incanus. 
Others, Dorycnium Monfpelienftum \ and the Eng- 
lifli writers, Poifonous trefoil of Montpelier. 
7. Bufliy-top'd white Lotus. 
Lotus floribus confertis aJbidis vel carneis. 
The root is long, thick, divided, and fpreading. 
The fl:em is covered with a brown bark : ic 
grows to the height of four feet in a fhrubby 
manner, and the young twigs are greyifli. 
The leaves fUnd three together, with two 
fmaller at their Safes i and they are narrow, fliarp- 
pointed, and of a pale green. 
I'he flowers are fmall, but very numerous : 
they Rand in round clufters at the tops of the 
I ftalks 
