Lotus 
CORNICULATUS. 
Birds-foot Trefoil. 
LOTUS Linnai Gen. PL Diadelphia Decandria. 
Legumen cylindricum, Aridum. AU furfum longitudinaliter comiiventes. 
Cal. tubulofus. 
Rail Syn. Gen. 23. Herb® flore papilionaceo seu leguminos®. 
I.OTUS corniculatus capitulis depreffis, caulibus decumbentibus, leguminibus cylindricis patentibus. 
Lin. SyJl. Vegetab. p. 576. 
LOTUS floribus umbellatis ; Aliquis cylindricis 5 rediffimis. Haller, hijl. helv. p. 572. n. 3. 
LOTUS corniculatus. Scopoli FI. Carniol. p. 86. 
LOTUS Ave melilotus pentaphyllos minor glabra. Bauhin Pin. 332. 
TRIFOLIUM Aliquofum minus. Gerard, emac. 1191. Raii Syn. 334, Birds-foot Trefoil* 
Hudfon Flor. Angi. p. 288. 
Lightfoot Flor. Scot. p. 41 1. 
RADIX perennis, fubfuAformis', in terram alte defcen- 
dens. 
CAULES plurimi, tenues, procumbentes, fubquadrati, 
pedales, ramofl. 
FOLIA terna, ovata, mucronata, foliolo medio baA 
anguftata, glabra aut hirfutula. 
STIPULAE duae, foliis quodammodo Amiles at magis 
latae et acuminatae. 
FLORES fubumbellati, ad 12, petiolis nudis longis 
infidentes. 
CALYX : Perianthium tubulofum: infra medium 
annulo prominulo ciudum, quinquedentatum, 
dentibus fetaceis, hirfutulis, duobus fiiperio- 
ribus furfum tendentibus, tribus inferioribus 
reflexis, Jig. 1. 
COROLLA papijionaetwyrfhrra . Vexillum reflexum, 
fuperne aurantiacum, interne ad baAn lineis 
odo circiter notatum : Al® dutc* flavit, api- 
cibus obtuAs : Carina inferne gibba, adfcen- 
dens, acuminata, Jig. 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta decem, novem in tubum 
coalita, Amplici libero, apicibus omnium di- 
latatis, albis : Anther® parvae, flavae, jig. 3, 
4 , 5 ? 6 - 
PISTILLUM : Germen tenue, teretiufculum, incur- 
vum: Stylus adfcendens, redus : Stigma 
minimum, ^. 7, 8, 9. 
PERICARPIUM : Legumen cylindricum, bivalve, 
iflhmis quafl interceptum, more raphani, 
fig- IO- 
SEMINA- plurima, Liltra xx, parva, fubreniformia* 
maculata, 11, 12. 
THE following extrad relative to this plant, is felt 
relating to Agriculture and rural affair s t page 419. 
ROOT perennial, tapering, linking deeply into the 
earth. 
STALKS feveral, flender, procumbent, fomewhat 
fquare, a foot in length, and branched. 
LEAVES growing three together, ovate, terminating. 
in a fhort point, the middle leaf narrowed at 
its bafe, fmooth or flightly hirfute. 
STIPULAE two, in fome degree like the leaves, but 
broader, and more pointed. 
FLOWERS growing l’omewhat in the form of an um- 
bell, to twelve, fitting on long foot-ft.ilks. 
CALYX: a Perianthium tubular, below the mid- 
dle Unrounded by a prominent ring, having 
Ave teeth, which are fetaceous and a little 
hairy, the two upperniofl: riAng upward, the 
three lowermoft bending back. Jig. 1. 
COROLLA papilionaceous and yellow : the Vexil- 
lum turned back ; on its upper part of an o- 
rai.go eolbur, underneath, at its bafe, marked 
with about eight lines : Wings two, yellow 
and blunt at the tips : Keel gibbous below, 
riAng upwards, and pointed. Jig. 2. 
STAMINA : ten Filaments, nine uniting in aTube ; 
the Angle one loofe ; the tips of all of them 
dilated, and white : Anther® fmall and 
yellow, /g. 3, 4, 5, 6. 
PISTILLUM : Germen flender, roundifli, and bent 
downward : Style riAng upwards* and 
flraight : Stigma very minute, ^ 8, 9. 
SEED-VESSEL: a cylindrical Legumen of two valves, 
divided into a kind of cells, fomewhat in the 
manner of the Radifh, Jig. 10. 
SEEDS numerous, more than twenty,, fmall, fome- 
what kidney- fhaped, and fpotted, Jig. 1 1, 12.. 
ed' from the flrfl volume of Mr. Anderson’s Effays 
While the practical remarks, and judicious hints; fcattered through* this performance, fhew the author to be a 
man of real genius, and far fuperior to the common run of writers on thefe fubje&s, we cannot but regret, that a 
want of botanic knowledge pervades the whole, and in fome degree, defeats the laudable deflgn of the ingenious 
eflayift. In no one plant, is this inaccuracy more obfervable than in the prefent, which we fhall point out ; 
hoping, that as the author has in fome parts of his work, lhewn himfelf well acquainted with chemical know- 
ledge, fome future edition may demonflrate, that he thought Botany equally worthy of his attention. 
“ Milk- vetch, liquorice-vetch, or milk- wort, as it is differently called, — the *AJlragalus glycyphyllos of Hudfon, 
“ is a plant common in every part of the ifland; although it has never yet, that I have heard of, been attempted 
“ to be cultivated.” 
“ The general appearance of this humble plant, is, in fome refpe&s, very like that of the common white- 
“ clover; although its leaves upon a nearer examination are not exa&ly Amilar to them. From the top of the 
“ root 
*It is very evident, from the whole tenor of the authors defeription, that he has given a wrong name to the plant he wiflied to recommend. 
The plant he delcribes, is the Lotus corniculatus of Hudson, or Birds-foot J ref oil, and not the AJlragalm Glycyphyllos, or Liquorice-Vctch , 
which is by no means a common plant. 
