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ereel, little«branched, round, fmooth, about eighteen 
indies in height, woody at the bottom only. The end 
of the keel is apt to be green ; and this, with the glau¬ 
cous hue of the leaves, indicates that a blue colour may 
be produced from thefe yellow flowers by putrefcence. 
Native of the fouthern countries of Europe ; flowers in 
July. 
6. Coronilla minima, or lead coronilla: underfhrub- 
by, procumbent; leaflets nine, ovate ; flipule oppofite 
to the leaf, emarginate; legumes angular, knotty. Root 
perennial; Items feveral, woody, branched, two or three 
inches long, and proftrate ; hence fpring, annual, her¬ 
baceous, round, branches, pale green, alfo proftrate, 
leaflets at the top, and ending.in a little bunch of flowers. 
The whole plant is very lmooth. Native of the fouthern 
countries of Europe: cultivated in 1683 by Mr. James 
Sutherland. 
7. Coronilla argentea, or filvery-leaved coronilla: 
fhrubby ; leaflets eleven, filky, the outmoft larger than 
the reft. This is a very humble fhrub, rarely growing- 
more than two feet high, when planted in a good foil; 
but, in a dry barren place, not much above one toot. 
The Item is hard and woody, from which the branches 
are produced on every fide near the ground, fo as to form 
a low bufhy fhrub. At the joints where the leaves are 
produced are two ear-fliaped ftipules. The flowers are 
on long flender axillary peduncles ; they are yellow, and 
have a ftrong fweet feent: as the plants always produce 
great plenty of them, they make a fine appearance during 
the month of May, which is their feafon for flowering; 
the feeds ripen in Auguft and September. The filvery 
colour of this plant is occafioned by its growing on a 
poor dry foil; and if it is removed into better ground, 
it will take a glaucous colour; and the contrary. Native 
of the ifland of Crete. 
8. Coronilla fecuridaca, or hatchet vetch: herbace¬ 
ous: legumes fickle-fword-fhaped; leaflets very many. 
Root annual, compofed of a few flender fibres, which 
run pretty deep in the ground ; flems herbaceous, trail¬ 
ing, a foot and a half long, dividing into feveral branches. 
It fleeps with the leaflets converging above the petiole, 
and bent towards the bafe of it. Native of Spain; flower¬ 
ing-in July. 
9. Coronilla vnria, or purple coronilla: herbaceous; 
legumes eredt, cylindric, fwelling, numerous; leaflets 
very many, fmooth. Root perennial, creeping widely ; 
Items from four to fix feet in height, when fupported, 
otherwife trailing ; the flowers come out many together 
in roundifh bunches, on peduncles which are about the 
lame length with the leaves; the corolla varies from a 
deep to a light purple, to whitifh, and even wholly 
white ; and fometimes there is a mixture of both. Na¬ 
tive of France, Germany, &c. flowering from June to 
autumn ; cultivated in the time of Parkinfon in 1640, as 
an ornamental plant. It was formerly propofed to be 
cultivated as a proper food for cattle ; and it was found 
that it grew very readily, and might be very beneficial 
to the farmer. Miller informs us, that he remembers 
to have feen a large fpot of ground planted with it at 
Deepden, near Dorking, in Surry, at the feat of the Hon. 
Mr. Howard ; where, although it had been neglected 
for forne years, it was growing fo rank as to get the bet¬ 
ter of all the weeds, brambles, &c. He found fome of 
the branches upwards of five feet long, and very tender 
their whole length ; fo that a. fmall fpot of ground will 
fupply a conliderable quantity of fodder, efpecially in 
dry feafons. Horfes and cows feemed to eat it greedily. 
Mr. Curtis remarks, that its bitternefs will be an objec¬ 
tion to its being cultivated for cattle. A gentleman, 
however, who has lately fown it on his own ground, 
alferts, that cows eat it very readily. 
10. Coronilla Cretica, or Cretan coronilla: herbace- 
ous; legumes five together, ereCt, columnar, jointed; 
leaflets eleven. Stems afeending, angular, even, two or 
three feet long. Native of Candia, whence Tournefort 
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fent the feeds to the royal garden at Paris. Annual; 
flowers in June. 
11. Coronilla fcandens, or climbing coronilla: ftern 
climbing, flaccid. This has a flender, hairy, twining, 
ftalk, of a brown colour, twilling- round any of the fhrubs 
which Hand near it, whereby it riles eight or ten feet 
high ; for the moll part compofed of five oval leaflets, 
one inch long, and half an inch broad, of a deep green. 
The flowers come out by pairs at each joint, (landing on 
very Ihort feparate peduncles erccl; they are -large, and 
of a pale yellow ; thefe are fucceeded by taper-jointed 
pods, more than three inches long, which are covered 
with Ihort, foft, white, hairy, down, and Hand erect.. 
Difcovered by Plunder, in South America. Dr. Houf- 
toun fent the feeds from Carthagena to Mr. Miller. 
12. Coronilla Cochin-chinenlis, or Cochin-china coro¬ 
nilla : fuifruticofe ; leaflets about fifteen pairs; pedun¬ 
cles fubtriflorous ; legumes ereCt, torulofe. Stem four 
feet high, upright, branched. Native of Cochin-china. 
13. Coronilla Hifpanica, or Spatiilh coronilla :■ fhrub¬ 
by ; leaflets nine, emarginate, ftipules large, roundilh. 
Mr. Miller deferibes this fort as being like the glauca, 
but the leaves having-ycaw leaflets; in the fpecific cha¬ 
racter, however, he lays that the leaflets are eleven in 
this, whereas the glauca has only feven. According to 
Miller, the flowers are larger than thofe of glauca, and 
have little feent. 
14. Coronilla orientalis, or Levant coronilla: herba¬ 
ceous; legumes'numerous, radiate, thick, jointed ; leaf¬ 
lets glaucous underneath. Root perennial; Item annual, 
ereCt, upwards of two feet high: flowers in June and 
July; and, in warm feafons, the feeds will ripen in au¬ 
tumn. Difcovered by Tournefort in the Levant, whence 
he fent the feeds to Paris. There is a variety with large 
white flowers. 
Propagation and Culture. The firft fort is eafily propa¬ 
gated by fowing the feeds, which it commonly produces 
in great quantity, in March, upon a bed of light fandy 
earth. Keep it clear from weeds, and in very dry wea¬ 
ther refrelh it often with water, but gently, fo as not to 
walk the feeds out of the ground. When the plants are 
come up, watering in dry weather will promote their 
growth. At Michaelmas, if the plants have thriven 
well, draw out the fargeft, and tranfplant them into a 
nurfery, in rows at three feet diftance, and one foot 
afunder in each row. The reft of the young plants may 
remain another year before they are tranfplanted into the 
nurfery, where they fhould continue two years, when 
they will be fit to plant out where they are to remain. 
If they are left in the nurfery longer, they are apt to 
make downright roots, the cutting off which is often fa¬ 
tal to the fhrub ; and, in removing them at any time, 
care Ihould be taken not to break or wound the roots. 
It may alfo be propagated by laying down the tender 
branches, which will take root in about a year’s time, 
and may then be tranfplanted into a nurfery, and ma¬ 
naged in the fame manner as the feedling plants. Some 
plants of the fecond fort fhould be Iheltered under a com¬ 
mon frame in winter, becaufe they are often deftroyed in 
hard frolls 5 but, in mild weather, they fhould be expofed 
to the air, otherwife they will draw up weak. 
9. The roots creep very far under ground, by which 
it increafes greatly, and, when permitted to remain un¬ 
removed two or three years, it will overbear what plants 
grow near it; for which reafon the roots fhould be con¬ 
fined, and it fhould be planted at a diftance from any 
other plants. It will grow in almoft any foil and litua- 
tion, but thrives beft in a warm funny expofure, in 
which the flowers will be much fairer, and in greater 
quantities. 
11. This plant is propagated by feeds, which Ihould 
be fown early in the fpring on a moderate hot-bed ; and, 
when the plants are come up, they fhould be each tranl- 
planted into a halfpenny pot filled with frefh rich earth, 
and plunged into a hot-bed of tanner’s barkj oMcrving 
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