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long; its hairy leaves and calyxes. Leaves alternate, pe- 
tioled ; leaflets fubfeflile, cordate-obovate, blunt, termi- 
iiated by a f'pinule, quite entire, bright green and fmooth 
above, white and 111 ky underneath. Flower folitary, ter- 
jninating, large, pale yellow, fubfeflile, furrotinded by 
lanceolate ternate leaflets. Native of the fouth of Europe, 
in moill meadows. Mr. Profeffor Martyn gathered it near 
Lancy, Vevay, and Aigle, in May 1779. Cultivated in 
1683 by Mr. James Sutherland. Gerard calls it “ horned 
or codded claver;” Parkinfon, “ fmooth codded trefoils 
of Motnpelier.” Gerard and Leyfer do not diftinguifh 
this from the preceding. Magnol, who fir (1 feparated the 
lea from the meadow locus, fays that the latter has fmooth 
fat thick leaves, and narrower pods. 
3. Lotus tetragonolobos, or winged bird’s-foot trefoil: 
legumes folitary, membranaceous-quadrangular, braftes 
ovate. Root annual. Stems feveral, about a foot long, 
having at each joint a ternate leaf. Seeds fubglobular, 
the fize of a fmall pea, fmooth, pale or livid purple, with¬ 
out fpots, It flowers in June and July, and the feeds ripen 
in autumn. It was formerly cultivated as anefculent plant, 
for the green pods, which are faid lobe (till eaten in lome 
of our northern counties, but they are very coarfe. This 
plant is now chiefly cultivated in flower-gardens for orna¬ 
ment. It is a native of Sicily, where Ray found it on the 
hills above Medina; and was cultivated in 1596 by Ge¬ 
rard. Parkinfon calls it “ crimfon-bloflomed or fquare- 
codded peafe.” In Johnfon’s edition of Gerard’s Herbal, 
it is named fquare crimfon-velvet peafe. Ray calls it 
fquare-codded vetch. None of thefe authors fpeak of the. 
pods being efculent. Clnfius fays the feeds were frequently 
lent out of Italy under the name- of Janda/ida, which 
Adanfon has adopted for the generic name of thefe winged 
iotufes, and Scopoli for the trivial of the fecond fpecies. 
4.. Lotus conjugatus, or twin-podded ’bird’s-foot tre¬ 
foil : legumes conjugate, membranaceous-quadrangular, 
bra ties oblong-ovate. This agrees with the preceding in 
habit, age, leaves, hairinefs, and legumes ; but, differs in 
the corollas being only half the fize; the legumes in pairs, 
with the wings, entire, and lefs waved or curled ; and the 
leaves not embracing the Item at the bafe, but gaping on 
the oppoflte fides. The Items are branching, and a foot long. 
It flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in the autumn. 
Native of France about Montpelier. 
5. Lotus tetraphyllus, or four-leaved bird’s-foot trefoil: 
legumes folitary; leaves ternate, obcordate-wedge-fhaped ; 
flipule folitary, fimilar; bractes one-leafed. Stems fili¬ 
form. Corolla yellow, with the back of the banner dark 
purple. It is diftinguifbed from all the other fpecies by 
its folitary flipules and one-leafed braftes. The former 
are lanceolate-oblong, and the latter fometimes, but fel- 
tiom, two-leafed. Native of Majorca. 
6'. Lotus edulis, or efculent bird’s-foot trefoil: legumes 
fubfolitary, gibbous, curved in. This is an annual plant, 
with feveral trailing (talks, a foot long. The flowers 
Rand fingly on long axillary peduncles; they are yellow 
and fmall ; and are fucceeded by thick pods, arched with 
a deep furrow on the outfide. Native of Italy and Can- 
dia. Ray fays that he met with this, or cue very like it, 
about Naples and in Sicily. Miller, who cultivated it in 
1759, had the feeds fent him from Nice. The pods are 
eaten in Candia, when young, by the poorer inhabitants. 
It flowers here in July, but the feeds do not ripen in 
cold Cummers. 
7. Lotus peregrinu?, or flat-podded biid’s-foot trefoil: 
legumes fubbinate, linear, comprefl'ed, nodding. This 
is an annual plant like the eleventh, but does not branch 
fo much; the leaflets are rounder at their ends, and 
finoother ; the peduncles are fliorter, and feldom fuftain 
more than two flowers; they ate fucceeded by two very 
narrow pods about two inches long, and hanging down¬ 
wards. Native of Spain and Portugal. Cultivated here 
in 1713. It flowers in July. 
8. Lotus anguftiflimus, or narrow-podded bird’s-foot tre- 
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foil: legumes fubbinate, linear, ftiff upright; ftem upright; 
peduncles alternate. Root weak, branched. Stems ftraight, 
numerous, a foot high, branched, reddifli, befet with long 
whitifh hairs; at each joint a ternate leaf; leaflets oblong, 
acute. Peduncles axillary,folitary, an inch or more in length, 
with a yellow flower or two at top, in hairy calyxes. Le¬ 
gumes generally one, very feldom two; flender, near twa 
inches in length, obfoletely torulofe where the feeds are; 
thefe are twenty or even twenty-three in number, fpheri- 
cal, pale fulphur-coloured, very fmooth, fliining like pearls, 
the fize of a pin’s head. Native of the fouth of France ; 
Ray gathered it near Naples. Miller has confounded this 
with one of the varieties of L. Corniculata. 
9. Lotus glaucous, or glaucous bird’s-foot trefoil : le¬ 
gumes fubbinate, cylindrical, fmooth ; leaflets fomewhnt 
wedge-fhaped, fleflty, hoary ; (tipules leaf-form. Native of 
Madeira, where it was found by Mr. Francis Mafion. In¬ 
troduced in 1777. It is biennial; and flowers from June 
to Augnlt. 
10. Lotus Arabicus, or red-flowered bird’s-foot trefoil: 
legumes cylindrical, awned ; (terns prcftrate ; peduncles 
three-flowered; braftes one-leafed. Root perennial. Stems 
feveral, a foot and a half high, fcarcely pubefcent. Native 
of Arabia, where it was found by Forfkahl, and in Surat 
by Brad. Introduced in 1773, by the chevalier Murray. 
It flowers from July to November. 
11. Lotus ornithopodioides, or claw-podded bird’s-foot 
trefoil : legumes fubternate, bowed, comprefl'ed ; Items 
difl’ufed. This is an annual plant, which fends up many 
ft iff (talks from one to two feet high, dividing into 
many branches. Leaves ternate, with two appendages or 
ftipules. Peduncles axillary, two or three inches long, 
terminated by a clutter of yellow flowers: thefe deep dur¬ 
ing the night with the braftes covering them. Native of 
Sicily. It flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in autumn. 
Cultivated in 1683, by Mr. Janies Sutherland: it was 
found by Ray on the hills above Medina, and at Capo 
Paflaro ; by Gerard, Sauvages, &c. in Provence; and by 
Pallas in Siberia. 
12. Lotus jacoboeus, or dark-flowered bird’s-foot trefoils 
legumes fubternate; Item herbaceous, upright; leaflets- 
linear. Stem flender, woody, from two to three feet high, 
fending out many flender herbaceous branches. Flowers 
axillary from the upper part of the ftem, four or five on 
very flender peduncles, of a yellowilh deep purple colour. 
Native of the Cape Verd Iflunds. Cultivated in 1714, by 
the duchefs of Beaufort, at Badminton. It flowers all the 
fummer and autumn, and many times great part of the 
winter. Mr. Miller fays that he had the feeds from the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
13. Lotus Creticus, or fllvery bird’s-foot trefoil: le¬ 
gumes fubternate ; (tern fuffrutefeent, leaves filky, (hining. 
This riles witli flender items which require fupport, from 
three to four feet high, fending out a few fide branches. 
At each joint is a neat fllvery ternate leaf, with turn ap¬ 
pendages, or flipules. Peduncles axillary, from two to 
three inches long, fuftaining heads of yellow flowers, 
which part in the middle, each head containing four or fix 
flowers. Thefe appear in May, June, and July, and are 
fucceeded by long taper pods filled with roundilh feeds, 
which ripen in the autumn. Native of Spain and the Le¬ 
vant. Morifon had feeds from. Aleppo, which produced 
plants at Oxford, before 1680. 
14. Lotus Diofcorides, or Diofcorides’s lotus: ftem up¬ 
right, branched ; peduncles fubbiflorous: legumes colum¬ 
nar, ovate, torofe. Root annual. Stems a palm aud half 
in height, round. Flowers yellow, fmall. Found near 
Villafranca, in the county of Nice, on the fea-coaft. 
15. Lotus arboreus, or tree bird’s foot trefoil: legumes 
quinate; leaflets obcordate; ftem arboreous. Native of 
New Zealand. 
II. With mauy-flovvered peduncles, forming a head. 
16. Lotus hirf’utus, or hairy bird’s-foot trefoil: heads 
roundiflij Item upright, rough-haired, legumes ovate: 
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