GALE'GA PER'SICA. 
PERSIAN GOAT’S-RUE. 
Order. 
DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGDMINOSiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Persia. 
4 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1816. 
No. 455. 
The word, Galega, is believed to have been de- 
rived from the Greek gala, milk; to mark the plant 
as producing it in animals which feed on its herbage. 
The Galega Persica bears a strong resemblance 
to the Galega officinalis, but it is far less common, 
and of comparatively recent introduction. It is 
also rather more robust in habit, and of taller growth. 
It is an abundant flowerer, producing one of its 
white racemes at the axil of each leaf. 
The natural order, leguminosae, to which this ge- 
nus belongs, is a most important one in the susten- 
ance of animal life. The pea, bean, vetch, trefoil, 
and numerous other plants belonging to it, are 
universally known. Nearly the whole may be re- 
cognised at first sight, from their papilionaceous 
or butterfly-like flowers. These have a peculiar 
arrangement of their petals, admirably adapted for 
the protection of their parts of fructification, from 
injury by summer showers. 
Whether our attention be arrested by the mineral 
or vegetable world, enough in the economy of either 
will continually manifest itself to form a useful les- 
son to man. The solicitude of the most insignifi- 
Class. 
MONODELPHI A . 
