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LEGUMINOS^. CXXXI. Astragalus. 



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Rail, syn. 326. t. 12. f. 3. Flowers variegated with purplish, lyxes villous, 5-cleft; legumes villous. 1^. H. Native of 



blue, and white. Root creeping, woody, though slender. 



Armenia, D. C. astrag. no, 41. Flowers white and purple in 



Tongue-under-tongue or Purple Milk- Vetch 

 Britain. PL prostrate. 



Fl. June, July, the same head, according to Tournefort, cor. 28. 



2 A. DASYOLOTTis (Fisch. in litt. D. C. prod. 2. p. 282.) 

 plant diffuse, nearly glabrous ; stipulas concrete, opposite the 



Two-co?owrecZ-flowered Milk-Vetch. PI. ^ foot. 

 9 A. NA*Nus (D. C. astr. no. 40. t. 17.) plant almost steraless, 

 frutescent, canescent ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; 



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to -- foot. 



leaves; leaflets elliptic-oblong, somewhat emarginate ; spikes leaves with 6-7 pairs of ovate leaflets; spikes of flowers capi 



of flowers capitate ; peduncles a little longer than the leaves ; tate, on short peduncles ; legumes ovate-oblong, pubescent. 



bracteas about equal in length to the tube of the calyx ; calyx 1/ . H. Native of Syria. Flowers purple. 



beset with white hairs ; legumes erect, ovate- triquetrous, hairy, Dwarf Milk-Vetch. PL 



disposed in heads ; cells 1-seeded. 1/. H. Native of Siberia, 10 A. psoraleoides (Lam. diet. 1. p. 317.) plant with short 



on the Altaian mountains. Root creeping. Flowers purple, stems, ascending, suffrutescent and canescent ; stipulas concrete, 



blue, and white mixed. Very nearly allied to A, hypoglotlis. 



Thtck'tongued ox Thick-podded Milk-Vetch. FL June, July. 

 Clt. 1818. PJ. diffuse. 



3 A. ruRPu^REUs (Lam, diet. 1. p. 314.) plant diffuse, pro- 

 cumbent, ratlier villous ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; 

 leaflets obovate, bidentate at the apex ; spikes of flowers capi- 

 tate ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; legumes erect, ovate- 

 triquetrous, hairy, disposed in heads; cells 3-seeded. 

 Native of Provence, on the mountains. Piedmont, and the Ap- 



D, C. astr. no. 17. t. 12. 



l/.H. 



pennmes 



Pwrp/e- flowered Milk-Vetch. 

 PL prostrate. 



Flowers purplish blue* 



FL June, July. Clt. 1820. 



opposite the leaves ; leaves with 6-9 pairs of linear- oblong leaf- 

 lets , flowers capitate at first, but at length spicate, longer than 

 the leaves ; legumes oblong, very hairy. \ . F. Native of 

 the Levant. D. C. astr. no. 42. t. 18. f. 2. Flowers blue or 

 purplish blue. 



Psoralea-like Milk- Vetch. PL |- foot. 



11 A. ALLYSsoiDEs (Lam. diet. 1. p. 317.) plant with short, 

 ascending, sufFrutescent stems, hoary ; stipulas concrete, oppo- 

 site the leaves; leaves with from 5-10 pairs of linear-oblong 

 leaflets ; spikes of flowers somewhat cylindrical, on peduncles, 

 which are twice the length of the leaves ; legumes ovate, acute, 



F. Native of the Levant, D. C. 



pubescent, 4-seeded. 



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4 A. TENUiFOLius (Desf. atl. 2. n, 186. D. C. astr. no. 10. astr. no. 43, t, 18, f. 1, Flowers smaU, of a dirty-white colour. 

 but not of Lin.) plant decumbent, hoary, and villous; stipulas Madwort- like Milk-Vetch. 



concrete, opposite the leaves; leaflets elliptic-linear, about 15 or 

 1 7 pairs ; peduncles shorter than the leaves ; spikes capitate ; 



l/.H. Native of Barbary, near Cafza, 

 Flowers rose-coloured. 



PI- 1 



foot. 



vexillum elongated, 

 in sand. 



Fine-leaved Milk-Vetch. 



Legumes unknown. 

 PL decumbent. 



12 A. lasiogl6ttis (Stev. in Bieb. suppl. 486,) plant ascend- 

 opposite the 



spikes of flowers capitate, on long peduncles ; vexillum 



ing, hoary from adpressed hairs ; stipulas concrete 

 leaves 



5 A. LOToiDES (Lam. diet. 1. p. 316.) plant prostrate, gla- 

 brous : 



stipulas not known ; leaves with about 4 or 5 pairs of 

 obovate, nearly obcordate leaflets ; flowers 4 or 5 in 

 peduncles length of lea 



umbel ; 



kC • 



erect, subulate at the apex. 



legumes prismatic, triquetrous, 

 O. H. Native of China. A. 



Sinicus, Lin. mant. 103. Sims, bot. mag. 1350. Flowers rose- 

 coloured. Lamarck's name has been adopted in prefei'ence to 

 that of Linnaeus in consequence of its being more expressive of 

 the habit of the plant, and to prevent its being confounded with 

 A. Chincnsis. The specimen in the Linnaean herbarium under 

 the name of A. Sinicus is certainly a species of Coromlla very 

 near C varia. 



Lotus-like Milk-Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1 763. PL pr. 



6 A. viciiEFORMis (D. C. astr. no. 19.) plant trailing and 

 clothed with adpressed pubescence; stipulas half-concrete ; leaves 

 with from 10-15 pairs of obovate or obcordate leaflets; spikes 

 5-7-flowered ; peduncles angular, a little longer than the leaves ; t. 10, 

 legumes oblong, acute, erect, villous. %. H. 

 padocia. A. humifusus, Willd. spec. 3. p. 

 bluish-purple. 



Vicxa-Jormed Milk-Vetch. 



elongated, emarginate ; legumes rather ovate -globose, acute, 

 woolly. 11 , F. Native of Caucasus, in stony, exposed places. 

 Flowers purple. Allied to A. onobrychiotdes. 



Woolly-ton gued Milk-Vetch. PL ascending. 



13 A. LEONTiNus (Jacq. icon. rar. 1. t. 153.) plant diffuse, suf- 

 fruticose at the base, clothed with hairs, which are fixed by their 

 centre ; stipulas concrete, but usually free at length ; leaves with 

 6-12 pairs of ovate leaflets ; flowers disposed in heads; pedun- 

 cles trigonal, longer than the leaves; legumes ovate, villous. 



Native of Austria and Switzerland, on mountains. 



Lodd. bot. cab. 432. ^'— ^^^"'*- ^^^ 



H. 



Flowers blue. 



Clt. 1816. Ph^iff- 



Native of Cap- 

 1286. Flowers 



D. C. astr. no. 20. 



ilium a little longer than the wrings. 



iion'5-^ai/ Milk-Vetch. FL May, June. ^.^ ^ 



14 A. UNiFu LTUs (Lher. stirp. 158.) plant decumbent, suflru- 



tescent, hoary from villi ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves, 

 leaves with from 11-14 pairs of oblong, obtuse leaflets; ra- 

 cemes pedunculate, length of leaves ; legumes erect, compressc » 

 villous. % . F. Native of Peru and Chili. D. C. astr. no. ^• 



Calyxes rather bladdery, clothed with adpressed, blac 

 down. Flowers purplish. 



Single-propped Milk-Vetch. 



15 A. 



PL decumbent. 



PL trailinrr. 



7 A. oNonRYCHioiDEs (Bieb. casp. 185. fl. taur. 2. p. 18L) 

 plant rather diffuse, suffVuticose at the base, clothed with ad- 

 pressed pubescence ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; 

 leaves with 8-10 pairs of elliptic leaflets 



_ procu'mbens (Hook, in Beech, voy. p« 18.) p 

 clothed with hirsute tomentum in every part ; stems prostra i 



11-14 pairs of 

 lonser than tbe 



capitate, on long peduncles ; vexillum linear, longer than the 



legumes ovate-oblong, erect, villous, terminatinjr In a 



branched; stipulas concrete; leaves with 



liptic, retuse leaflets ; peduncles racemose, 



leaves ; wings of flowers not half so long as the keel ; 



spikes of flowers in an immature state, linear, hairy, and reflexed. 



legume 

 F. Na- 



wmgs 



hooked point. If. H. Native of Iberia, Persia, and Cauca- 

 sus. A. canescens, D. C. astr. no. 39. t. 16. A. cephalotes, 



Pall. astr. no. 32, t. 24. Flowers beautiful purple, 



Salntfoin-like Milk-Vetch. FL July. Clt. 1819. PL diff. 

 8 A. BicoLOR (Lam. diet. 1. p. 317.) plant almost stemless, 



sufFrutescent, hoary ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; 



leaves with from 6-9 pairs of oblong-linear leaflets ; spikes of 



flowers capitate ; peduncles twice the length of the leaves ; ca- 



tive of Chili, about Conception. 

 Procumbent Milk- Vetch. 



Flowers pale-purple 



.... ..^ , V..V..*. PL procumbent, 



16 A. bidektVtus (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. P 

 493. t. 584.) plant ascending and somewhat pubescent; ^^^P^^j 

 joined together to the middle; leaves with from 9-11 P^"^j 

 linear-oblong leaflets, which are emarginately bidentate at 



racemes roundish, pedunculate, longer than the le^v • 



apex ; 



11. S. 



Flowers pale-purple. 



Biden tate Aea&eited Milk- Vetch. 



Native of South America. Very like A* 



PL ascending. 



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