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bird’s foot. On Kendal fell, amongft the tenters^ 
near the lee-yate *f. 
Astragalus. The flower is papilionaceous, out 
of whofe empalement rifes the ftyle, covered 
with a flieath, which turns to a bicapfular pod, 
furnifhed with kidney-lhap’d feeds : The leaves 
are unequally pennated. The fpecies are : 
1 . Aftragalus luteus prennis procumbens^ vulgaris 
Jive fylveftris^ R. 326. Glaux vulgaris leguminofa 
feu Glycyrrhiza fylveftris^ P. 1098. Glycyrrhiza 
fylveftris floribus luteo pallefcentibus^ C. 352. 
dyfarum Glycyrrhizatum^ G. E. 1233. Wild Li- 
quorice, or Liquorice- vetch. The root is thick, a 
cubit, or a cubit and a half long, of a fweet tafte : 
The branches are three or four cubits long, fpread- 
ing upon the ground : The lobes of the leaves re- 
femble thofe of Peafe, are of a glaucous colour, and 
fmooth above *, hairy, and of a greenilh yellow be- 
low : From the bofoms of the leaves rife pedicles, 
about a fpan long, fuftaining greenifh yellow flowers : 
The pods are crooked. Near Cartmel phyfical well, 
Lancajhire ; and at Newburn^ four miles from New-^ 
caJUe upon I’yne -f. 
2. Aftragalus incanus parvus ptirpureus mftrasy 
R. 326. Purple Mountain Milkwort. On Gog- 
magog hills, Newmarket heath, Royfton heath, Hajel- 
wood in Torkjhire, It fpreads feveral weak liairy 
branches upon the ground : The leaves are hairy, 
and compofed of eight or nine pair of lobes, with 
an odd lobe at the end : The flowers grow, on. the 
tops of the {talks, in ihort fpikes, large, for the 
bignefs of the plant, and purple : The empalement 
is long, hairy, and cut into five fegments : The 
pods are fcarce a quarter of an inch long. 
Onobrychis. The flower is papilionaceous ; The 
pod is creiled, or rough : The feeds are kid- 
ney-fhap’d *, and the flowers grow in a thick 
fpike, We have but one fpecies of this plant, viz.. 
Ono^ 
