LEGUMINOS^. CXXX. Oxytropis. 



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24 0. nigre'sceks (Fisch. in litt. D. C. prod. 2. p. 278.) O. campestris var. (3, viscosa, D. C. astr. no. 10. Flow 



ers 



(lant almost stemless, having numerous procumbent scapes ; leaf- white. 



ift. 



C/a?w7w?/ Mountain Milk- Vetch. Fl. July. Clt. 1817* PI. ^ 

 29 O. fce'tida (D. C. astr. no. 11.) plant stemless; leaves 



with many pairs of lanceolate-linear, clammy, glabrous leaflets ; 



scapes rather longer than the leaves, woolly at the apex ; spikes 



ets 7-11 in number, elliptic, acutish, villous ; stipulas and calyxes 



beset with black hairs ; peduncles 2-flovvered, length of leaves ; 



legumes oblong, inflated, pubescent, 1 -celled. (Pall.) 1/. H. 



Native of the north-east of Siberia between the Aldan and the 



ocean, and in the island of St. Lawrence. Flowers bluish-pur- ' capitate, few-flowered ; bracteas shorter than the calyx ; legumes 



pie, rather large; the keel furnished with a small mucrone, erect, terete, inflated, rather incurved, pubescent. }/.II. Na- 



which is hardly evident. Astragalus nigr^scens. Pall. astr. p. tiveof the Alps of Dauphiny, Switzerland, and Piedmont. As- 

 tragalus foe'tidus, Vill. dauph. 3. p. 4G8. t. 43. Astr. Halleri, 

 All. pedem. no. 1276.^Hall. helv. no. 407. Flowers cream- 



65. t. 53. 



PI. i to 1 foot. 



Aug. 



Clt. 1819. 



2 



BlackishAiaired Mountain Milk- Vetch. PI. procumbent. 

 25 0. trifiiy'lla (Pers. ench. 2. p. 333.) plant almost stem- coloured. 

 less ; leaflets 3, lanceolate, glabrous, ciliated ; scape longer than Fetid Mountain Milk- Vetch. Fl. June, 



the leaves, bearing 2-3 flowers at its apex ; calyx very hairy. 



11. H. Native of Siberia, on islands in Lake Baikal, and of 30 O. squammulosa (D. C. astr. no. 15. t. 3.) plant stemless 



Dahuria on a granite hill between Ozeri and Kachira. Astragalus and glabrous ; leaves with many pairs of linear leaflets ; scapes 

 tnphyllus. Pall, astr, p.^ 68. t, 56. f. A. butjiot of Pursh. Leaves shorter than the leaves, each bearing usually 2 or 3 flowers at 



the apex ; calyxes covered with little scales ; bracteas shorter 

 than the calyx, and are, as well as the stipulas, ciliated; legumes 

 ovoid. 7/ . H. Native of Dahuria, in arid fields at the river 

 Courba. Flowers cream-coloured. 



. Scali/'Calyxed Mountain Milk- Vetch. PI. -5^ to -^ foot. 



§ 2. Verticillaris (from verticillatuSy whorled, or in a whorl ; 

 in reference to the leaflets being disposed somewhat in whorls 



sometimes furnished only with one leaflet. Flowers large, purple. 

 Three^eqfletted Mountain Milk- Vetch. PI. -| foot. 



* M 



Flowers cream-coloured. 



26 0. camve'stris (D. C. astr. no. 10.) plant stemless; leaf- 

 lets many pairs, lanceolate, acute, hoary, and rather hairy ; scapes 

 hairy, about equal in length to the leaves ; spikes ovate-ob- 

 long, dense-flowered ; flowers 'erect ; bracteas a little shorter 

 than the calyx, which is hairy ; le- 

 gumes ovate, inflated, erect, hairy, 

 half-bilocular. 

 Europe 

 upon a 



FIG. 40. 



ijlets all or fc 



% . H. Native of 



on the Alps. In Scotland 



rock on one of the 



high 



mountains at the head of Clova, 

 Angus-shire, near theWhite-vvater, 

 »n great abundance. Astragalus 

 campestris, Lin. spec. 102. Smith, 

 eng. bot. vol. 36. 2522. Astra, 

 sordidus, Willd. spec.1313. with 

 erroneous remarks. A. sordidus, 

 J/rs. ench. 2. p. 333 ^^^^^ ^ra- 



'ensis, Oed. fl. dan. 1041. 

 campestris, Wahl. 



13.-Srl,«uchz. trav. alp. 4. p. 



I,.k-. / H^re. In size and 



f '/ ™»c^ like 0. Uralensls 



tie leaflets are narrower, more nu- 



Scheuchz. 

 830. with 



Phaca 

 Hall. helv. t. 



but 



I 



on the petiole). D. C. prod. 2. p. 279. 

 most part somervhat i 

 same centre, or dotfi 



31 O. sple'ndens (Dougl. mss.) plant stendess, clothed witl 

 silky villi ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acute, crowded; scapes much 

 longer than the leaves ; flowers in interrupted spikes ; bracteas 

 lanceolate-linear, longer than the calyx, silky, as well as the 

 calyxes. 1/ . H. Native of North America, about the Red 

 river. Flowers blue, and probably mixed with white. Leaf- 

 lets rising 2-3-4 together from the petiole. 



Sj)lendid Mountain Milk- Vetch. PJ. 1 foot. 



32 O. microphy'lla (D. C. astr. no. 20.) plant stemless ; 

 leaflets rising in pairs from the petiole, or somewhat verticillate, 

 oblong, obtuse, hairy beneath; scape longer than the leaves; 

 spikes ovate; calyxes rather muricaicd, and woolly. %. H. 

 Native of Siberia, in sandy islands in the river Selenga, and in 

 Lake Baikal. Astragalus microphyllus, Pall. astr. 92. t. 76. 

 Phaca microphylla, Pall. itin. ed. gall, in 8vo. append, no. 382. 



t. 90. f. 1. Astr. polyphyllus, Willd. spec. 3. p. 1300. Flowers 



liairs"^* ^ ^^^^ silky, being only besprinkled with shining large, purple. This appears to be intermediate between the 



Flowers 



sometimes quite smooth, except on the mid-rib. character of this and the preceding division of the genus. 



FlJl ^l^^^'^P^oured, the keel and wings tinged with purple. 

 i ^£00^""'"^ Milk- Vetch. FL July,"Aug.^ Scotland. PI. 



leaflets 



fromsV'i?^^""'''^^ ^^''''^- '" ^'"-^ P^^"' stemless; 

 pressed .ill, '" ""*"ber, lanceolate, when young clothed wiui au- 

 hairs • sc P ,.^'^^"ce, at length only besprinkled with a few 

 flowpr« c^^^^ V *^ ^*'"g^^ than the leaves ; spikes capitate ; 



Small-leaved Mountain Milk- Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 



1819. PI. I foot. 



33 O. Baica'lia (Pers. ench. 2. p. 333.) plant stemless ; leaf- 

 lets lanceolate, clothed with silky wool, disposed somewhat ver- 



lanceolate, when young clothed with ad- ticillately ; scapes pilose, rather longer than the leaves ; flowers 



* - - - - ^^^,^ capitate ; legumes ovate, inflated, acuminated, membranous, 



pubescent. 1/. H. Native of Siberia, about Lake Baikal. 

 Astragalus Baic^lia, Pall. astr. 93. t. 77. f. 1. Flowers whitish. 



pj.g ,. longer than the leaves ; spikes capitate ; 



'^ine hai'r ? '"^ ' ^^^^^^^^ P^out equal in length to the calyx ; 

 '*'ns at th^ * ^' ^* Native of Siberia, on the Altaian moun- 

 prod. 2 t, Q-'^^H."^'"^^' ^' campestris y sulphurea, D. C. 



like the Ei "owers cream-coloured. This species is very 



more nnm^'*°^^^'^ ^ campSstris, but diflfers in the leaflets being 



SulT^T' ^"? '" '^' fl«^^-^rs being larger. 

 "'/>/'Ur-coloured-flow 



^It- 1 820. 

 28 0. 



ered Mountain Milk- Vetch. Fl. July. 



28 ' ^ ^ 



•eaves with ar^"^ 9^'^^'- *^^"P^" ^' P* ^^^- ** *^*) P^^"' stemless; 

 **^*P€8 and 1 *^"^ ^^"^ ^^ linear, acute, rather clammy leaflets ; 



tinged with blue. 



Baikal Mountain Milk- Vetch. PI. ^ to ^ foot. 



34 O. Ina'ria (D. C. prod. 2. p. 279.) plant stemless; leaf- 

 lets linear, acute, pubescent, in pairs, or 3 or 4 in a whorl ; scape 

 erect, about equal in length to the leaves ; spike capitate, few- 

 flowered ; bracteas rather longer than the calyx, which is pubes- 

 cent. 1/ . H. Native of Siberia, at the river Ina on the moun- 

 tains of Tegerek, but very rare. Astragalus linarius,^ Willd. 

 spec. 3. p. 1302. Astr. Inarius, Pall. astr. p. 94. t. 77. f. 2. 



•^■^bx clo^. r''^^ '^'^^^^ 5 flowers 7-9 at the top of each scape ; Flowers purple. Stipulas large, sheatlnng. sdky. 



^* tiothed with /.low, , , *^ ,1 ^ r-_ 1»*_..J:_:_ TVT.n, \7„»«1, Pl l tn i font. 



curved, velvpf ^ clammy pubescence ; legumes oblong, re- 



Ina Mountain Milk- Vetch. PI. ^ to ^ foot. 



%' H. Native of Switzerland and Dauphiny. 35 O. pu'mila (Fisch. in litt. D. C. prod. 2. p. 279.) plant 



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