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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
ftalks and branches ; and they are ulually whke, 
foinetimes redilh. 
The feed-veflcls are flender and long* 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Trifoiimn albim angiiJlifoUuni 
Jloribus I'eluti in capitidim conjejtls. Others, Spa- 
ni/h dorycmum^ Dorycnimn Hifpanicum, and Do- 
rycnium fiore minore. 
8. Long-podded Lotus. 
Loius Jiliquis longiffimis. 
The root is long and divided. 
The llalks are numerous, firm, and not much 
branched. 
The leaves are difpofed in a regular manner, 
and placed at agreeable diftances on the plant : 
three fl:and together, and two at their bafe : they 
are oblong, obtufe, and white. 
The flowers are long and flendcr, and their co- 
lour is a beautiful gold yellow : three ufually 
ftand together. 
The fced-veflTel is very large, and the feeds 
arc numerous and brown. 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in Auguft. 
Plukenet calls it Lotus argentea Cretica ; and 
Others follow him. 
9. Great fcarlet- flowered Lotus. 
Lotus fiore magna cocc'meo. 
The root is long, fpreading, and fiirnifhed 
with numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are robufi, upright, and brown ; 
and the plant has a Ihrubby appearance. 
The leaves are large ; three ftand on a fhorc 
footftalk, and two at the bale : they are oblong 
and obtufe, and of a greyifh green. 
The flowers fl:and on flender footftalks rlfing 
from the bofoms of the leaves, two on each : they 
are very large, and of a beautiful fcarlet. 
'I'he leed-veflels are long and brown. 
It is a native of Africa, and flowers in July. 
Plukenet calls it Lotus frutkofior Ajr'uana foUk 
incanis fiorihus hints amplis coccineis. 
The common kinds of lotus are gently afl:rin- 
gent. Two or three kinds have been called k-e- 
morrhoUales, from their t?itQ: in fl;opping the 
bleeding of the piles : but their virtues in that 
refpecT: are not very confiderable. The Spanifh 
and French kinds, called dorycnium, are accounted 
poifonous. 
Mr. Ray, by an overfight, adds to this clafs 
the plant called climbing fumitory^ the fumaria da- 
vicuits donata : but that is properly a fpecies of 
the genus whofe name it bears, /roMna; and will 
be defcribed in its place among the plants of that 
title, which belong to a different clafs. 
The END of ihe EIGHTEENTH CLASS. 
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