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lum is obcordate and entire. The wings are ovatc^ 
ftralght, and fcarce the fize of the vexilkim. The keel is 
compreiTed and fmali. There are ten hlaments, nine and 
one with fimple antheras. The germen is linear, the 
ftyle is fetaceous and rifing, bends like a bow, the llig- 
ma is a point. The legumen is fubulated, round, hiap- 
ed like a bow, having many joints conneded together, 
but when ripe feparate, each contairi-ing one roundiHi 
feed. 
- Perpufillus Bird's Foot with pinnate leaves, and pods 
fhaped fomewhat like a bow. Per, May — Aug, 
HIPPOCREPIS. Tufteo Horse-shoe Vetch^ 
The umbella is fimple, the cup is monophyllous and 
quinquedentated; the two upper denticles are joined and 
lefs divided, and the cup is permanent. The dower is 
papilionaceous. The vexilkim is cordate, fitting upon 
an unguis the length of the cup, the wings are ovato- 
oblong and obtufe, the keel is ihaped like the moon and 
comprefled. There are ten filaments, nine jointed to-- 
gether, and one feparate placed under the upper fide 
having fimple antherjE. The germen is (lender, oblong, 
and ends in a fubulated.ilyle, and has a fimple ftigma. 
The pod is membranaceous, very long, and crooked, 
and cut into many parts from the under'feam to the 
upper, each forming a roundifh finus with obtufe, three 
cornered joints, connedted to the upper feam, containing 
a fingle oblong feed in each joint, fhaped like a horfe 
fhoe. 
Comofa. tufted Horfe-Jhoe Vetch with pods growing in 
clufters upon foot-ftalks, whofe outer border is turned 
inward. In chalky foil. On the chalky grounds about 
Gogmagog-hills and elfewhere in Camh, Alfo on the nor- 
thern mountains. R. Sy^ On the ledge of the fear, all 
the way between Scout-Jlyle and Ploneybee-yaiey two mik^s 
ixom Kendaly JVeJi. Wilson’s*^’. July* 
HED YSARUM. 
