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LEGUMINOSvE. CXXIX, Phaca. 



semi-elliptJc-oblong, turgid, depressed, pubescenU G- H. Na- 

 tive of Peru*. Flowers 3-6 in a raceme, yellowish, P. Candol- 

 le^na, H. B, etKunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 495. t. 586. 

 Three-fowered Bastard- Vetch, PI. ^ to 1 foot, 



5 P. YiLLosA (Nutt. gen. amer. 2. p. 97.) plant almost stem- 

 less, hairy ; leaflets oblong-oval, glabrous above ; peduncles 

 shorter than the leaves, or equal in length to them ; spike few- 

 flowered, somew^hat capitate ; legume clothed with canescent 

 vilh', terete, and cymbiform. %, H. Native of Carolina and 

 Georgia, in sandy pine- woods, and on hills about the Missouri, 

 as well as of China. Astragalus villosus, Michx, fl. bor. amer, 

 2. p. 67- Flowers cream-coloured. 

 ; f'lV/oaA Bastard- Vetch. PI. | foot. 



6 P. CiESPiTosA (Nutt. gen. amer. 2, p. 98.) stemless, tufted. 



> 12 P. axjstra'lis (Lin. mant, 103. and 448.) stem hranclief, 

 tufted, ascending, glabrous ; stipulas ovate ; leaves with 6-8 

 pairs of linear-lanceolate, glabrous leaflets, having the terminal 

 sessile ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; wings bifid at 



than the keel ; 



longer 



one 



the apex 



length glabrous. %. H. 

 the Pyrenees. Jacq. misc. 2. 

 bot. cab. 490. 



legumes stipitate, ovoid, at 

 Native of the alps of Europe and 



D. C. astr. no. 8. Lodd, 



Colutea 



t. 3. 



P. Halleri, VilL dauph, 4. p. 473 



austrahs, Lam. diet. 1. p. 354. Corolla pale, having the keel 



tipped with purple. 



Far. j8, Altaica (Fisch. in Utt.) stem almost erect. %. H. 

 Native of the Altaian mountains. Perhaps a proper species. 

 Southern Bastard- Vetch. Fl. May, July. Clt. 1779. Phase. 

 , , 13 P. astragalina (D. C. astr. no. 9.) stems short, procum- 



and clothed with canescent villi ; leaves with 3-5 leaflets, w^hich bent, smoothish ; stipulas ovate, acute ; leaves with 9-10 pairs of 

 are disposed in a digitate manner, and are acute at both ends ; ovate leaflets, which are beset with adpressed pubescence on hotn 

 flowers aggregate, without a scape ; sti2)ulas membranous, with- surfaces ; peduncles about the length of the leaves ; wings entire 

 out any regular or decided form ; legume pubescent, sub-cylin- shorter than the keel; legumes stipitate, pendulous, when young 

 drical. % . H. Native o( North America, on hills at the con- beset with black hairs. % . H. Native of the alps of Switzer- 

 land, Savoy, Austria, Pyrenees, and on the Altaian mountains m 

 Siberia. In July, 1831, this plant was found in plenty by 

 Dr. Graham and others in Scotland on the Clova mountains, 

 north of Forfar in Angushire. Astragalus alpinus, var. Lin. 

 spec. 1070. Oed. fl. dan. 1. t. 51.— Lodd. bot. cab. 429. 

 Flowers white, tipped with lilac. 



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fluence of the rivers Sawanee and Missouri, Astragalus tri- 

 phyllus, Pursh. fl. amer. sept. 2. p. 740. but not of Pall. Flowers 

 cream-coloured. Leaflets lanceolate. 



PL I to I foot. 



Ttfjtcd Bastard-Vetch. 



7 P. ARENA^RiA (Pall. it. 4. t. 19. f. 3-4. ed. gall, append.no. 

 388. t, 91. f. 3-4.) stems spreading, ascending, glabrous; stipu- 

 las membran 



Root creeping 



concrete; leaves with 5-6 pairs of linear-Ian- AsiragahiS'lihe Bastard- Vetch. FL May, July. , Scotland. 



ceolate acute leaflets, having the terminal one sessile ; peduncles 



PL procumbent. 



, 14 P. Lappo'nica (D. C. prod. 2. p. 274.) stems elongated 



ascending, glabrous ; stipulas ovate, acute ; leaves with 9 pairs 



about the length of the leaves ; legumes inflated, glabrous, 



Native of Siberia, about the Uda Selenga and the Baikal. , ^, ^ , „..^ , , __ 



Flowers cream-coloured. Pallas's plate exhibits 2 plants under of oval leaflets, which are glabrous above, and clothed with aa- 

 this name, the one with ovate, and the other with globose le- 

 gumes ; the first belongs to Phaca^ but tlie second is referrible 

 to Spliwrosphysa, 



Sand Bastard-Vetch. FL July, Aug, Clt. 1796. PL ascending. 



* * FloTvers puri^lishy sometimes painted with white and violet. 



8 P. MOLLIS (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 496. t. 

 585.) stems short, diflfuse, clothed with soft tomentum ; leaves 

 \vith 7-8 pairs of oblong, obtuse, silky, tomentose leaflets; 

 racemes on long peduncles, of a cylindrical-oblong form, dense, 

 and many-flowered ; calyxes soft and silky. 7/ . G. Native of 

 Mexico, in valleys near Casave. Flowers purplish. The legume 

 being unknown the genus is doubtful. 



Soft Bastard- Vetch. 



9 P 

 decumbent, b 

 1 



PL diffusely procumbent. 

 DENsiFoLiA (Smith in Rees' cyclop. 27. no, 9.) stems 



bed, and smooth ; stipulas ovate, concave ; 

 res with 10-20 pairs of obovate emarginate leaflets, which purplish. 

 are villous beneath ; peduncles length of leaves ; racemes dense, 

 oblong; legumes ovate, turgid, almost smooth. 

 of California, Flowers drooping, reddish. 



Dense-leaved Bastard- Vetch. PL decumbent. 



pressed pubescence beneath ; peduncles longer than the leaves 

 wangs entire, longer than the keel ; legumes stipitate, pendulous, 

 half-bilocular, when young beset with black hairs. !/• H- 

 Native of the alps of Lapland and Sweden, and of Dahunanear 

 Ochotsk. Astragalus alpinus, var, Lin.L c. P. Lapp6nica,V^ah- 

 lenb. Flowers purplish. This I fear is not distinct from the last. 

 Lapland Bastard-Vetch. FL June, Jul. Clt. 1816. PL IJJ- 

 15 P. oroboIdes (D. C. prod. 2. p. 274.) stem elongated, 

 ascending, glabrous ; stipulas ovate, acute ; leaves wUh 5- 

 pairs of oval-oblong leaflets, which are glabrous above ana 

 hardly pubescent beneath; peduncles longer than the l^a^^^' 

 racemes elongated ; wings entire, longer than the keel 5/^8^"^^, 

 sessile, semi-bilocular, pendvdous, when young beset with blac 

 hairs, i;. H. Native of the alps of Norway and Lapland. As- 

 tragalus oroboides, Horn, in fl. dan. 8. t. 1396. Astrag. leontinw8| 

 WahL fl. lap. p ^"1 * io r A 1.,,. ^^. ^r J5.r0. Flowen 



191. t. U. f. 4. but not of Jacq. 



1/. H. Native 



Orohus-like Bastard-Vetch. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1820. 



16 P. brachy'tropis (Stev. mem. soc. hist. nat. mosc. 



53 



P 



blunti 



PI asc. 

 4. 



10 P. gla'bra (Clar. bull, philom. no. 61. D. C. astr. no. 4.) 

 stem branched, prostrate, glabrous ; stipulas broad, ovate ; 

 leaves with 6-7 pairs of oval-oblong, acute, glabrous leaflets ; 

 peduncles longer than the leaves ; wings of flowers entire ; le- %, H. Native 



.) stems ascending, smoothish ; stipulas broad, short, 

 i..««ash; leaves with 6 pairs of oblong-elliptic l^^^*^^^' "jg, 

 arc smoothish above and rather pubescent beneath ; p^^"" 



longer than the leaves ; racemes short ; 

 than the keel 



wings entire, 



hairj' 



gume stipitate, turgid, glabrous, i;. H. Native of Provence, 



I; legumes on short pedicels, when yt>unS '^ r^ 

 ive of Eastern Caucasus, Bieb. suppL 485, r^^ 



on the Lower Alps. 

 violet. 



purplish. 



Short'keeled Bastard- Vetch. 



PL ascending. 



Corolla white, tipped, and margined with 



C/fl/^row* Bai^tard- Vetch. FL July. Clt. 1818. PL prostrate. 



11 P. Gkka'rdi (VilL dauph. 3. p. 474.) stem diffuse, branched, 

 prostrate ; leaves and stipulas clothed with velvety pubescence, 

 and cili.-Jted ; peduncles rather longer than the leaves ; wings of 



flower oblong, and rounded at the apex ; legumes ovate, rather leg'umes semi-orbicular. ©. H. Native of China. ^ ^^ 

 velvety. ^. H. Native of Dauphiny. Flowers wlute, having Rees' cycL Perhaps a species of Glycine or Flefningtat f'^ 



Perhaps a species of Crotalaria, accon^c 



•j" j4 species not sufficiently Icnotvn. 



17 P. trxfoliVta (Lin. mant. 270.) stem branched, fi^jjj^^^! 

 stipulas lanceolate : leaves trifoliate ; leaflets oval, ohin » 



the carina tipped with purple. 

 Gerard's IJastard- Vetch. 



FL July. PL prostrate. 



cording to Smith. 



to the specimen in Delessert's herbarium at Paris. 



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