Identifier: florascoticaorsy011ligh (find matches)
Title: Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides
Year: 1777 (1770s)
Authors: Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788
Subjects: Botany Botany
Publisher: London, Printed for B. White
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California Academy of Sciences Library

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, S7. t. 90. ^Jig. noji.) Wood-Vetch, or Bitter-Vetch. Jnglis. Upon dry rocky places, and the banks of rivers,but rare. We obferved it upon the bank of theClyde^ near Lanerk, between the two famous fallsof Corry^s-hyn and Bonnatyn^ and in the iflandof Runiy on the bank of a rivulet running downa mountain called Baikevall % . VII. Many hairy recLning angular ftalks, about a foothigh, arife from the fame root, and, as far as weobferved, unbranched : the leaves grow alter-nate, ten or twelve upon a flalk •, they are pin-nated, and generally hairy j the number of pimaare from feven to eleven pairs, of an oval acuteform, ftanding on fliort pedicles on a hairy rib,which is not terminated with an odd pinna^ but afmall point or beard: xhtJlipuU grow in pairs,fhaped each like half the perpendicular fedionof the barb of an ahow : the flowers grow tenor twelve together, in a clofe fpike or duller,all leaning the fame way, upon a hairy pedun-cle as \oi\g as the leaf, and ariling from the ala of
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d-J. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 391 of it : the flowers are white, llriated with purpleveins ; the apex of the ca7ina is a bright purple :the calyx is hairy and reddifh : the pods are hardlyan inch long, comprelTed and fmooth, and con-tain about three feeds.The whole plant has a difagreeable bitter tafte, LATHYRUS. Gen. pL 872. Stylus planus, fupra villofus, fuperne latior. CaLlacinise fuperiores 2 brevioies. pratenfisi. LATHYRUS ptdunculis multifloris, cirrhis di-phyllus fiaiplicilTimis, foliolis lahceolatis. Sf, pi.1033. (^Ger. em. 1231./. 6. Rivin. t, 43 Bauh.hijf. 2. p. 304. /. 304. Moris, hiji. f. 2. /. 2./.2. Oed. Dan. t. 527. opt.) Yellow Vetchling, Tare-everlafting. Anglis. In meadows and paflures, where the foil is moiil,both in the highlands and lowlands. %• VII,VIII. The ftalks are branched, quadrangular, a cubitlong or more, weak, and unable to fupport them-selves : the tendrils are generally fingle, but oftentrifid, fubtended by one pair of oval-lanceolatepinnc£^ which have

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