GLYCINE, KNOBBED-ROOTED LIQUORICE-VETCH: A genus of the decandria order, belonging to the diadelphia class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 32d order, Papilionaceæ. The calyx is bilabiate; the carina of the corolla turning back the vexillum with its point. There is but one species commonly cultivated in our gardens, viz. the frutescens, or Carolina kidney-bean tree. This hath shrubby climbing stalks, twining round any support, 15 or 20 feet high, adorned with pinnated leaves of three pairs of follicles terminated by an odd one, and from the axillae clusters of large bluish-purple flowers, succeeded by long pods like those of the climbing kidney-bean. It flowers in June and July, but the seeds do not ripen in this country. It is easily propagated, either by seeds imported from America, where it is native, or by layers. The stalks and roots of the abrus, another species of glycine, which grows in Egypt and the Indies, are very sweet to the taste. Herman affirms, that the juice obtained
tained from them by decoction is little inferior to liquorice; whence its name of cold-liquorice in those parts of America where it is native.