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17 A. Garbancillo (Cav. icon. 1. t. 85.) plant erect, suf- acute; peduncles bearing a crowded spike of flowers each, 



fruticose, and rather villous ; stipulas concrete, opposite the 

 leaves; leaflets 10-12 pairs, oblong, obtuse; racemes peduncu- 



which is longer than the leaves ; flowers drooping ; legumes 

 triquetrous, erect, glabrous. Ij . H. Native of eastern Si- 



late, longer than the leaves ; legumes inflated, pilose. ^ . S. beria, on rocks. Flowers pale-blue at first, but at length chang- 

 Native of Peru, in the valley of Canta. Flowers pale violet. The ing to a deeper blue. It is probably not distinct from A. va- 

 plant is said to be noxious to cattle. Garhanc'illo is the verna- ginatus 



cular name of the plant in Peru. Calyx covered with black hairs. 



Garbancillo Milk-Vetch. 



Shrub 1;^ foot. 



Party-coIoured'Rowered Milk- Vetch. PL -g- to 1 foot. 



25 A. Tau'ricus (Pall. astr. no. 51. t. 38. exclusive of the 



18 A. Donia'nus (D. C. prod. 2. p. 283.) plant prostrate, synonymes) plant spreading and tufted, clothed with adpressed 

 rjjj beset with a few^ scattered adpressed hairs; leaves with 8-10 silky down; leaflets linear, acute; stipulas membranous, con- 

 pairs of oval, alternate, mucronulate leaflets, which are pubes- crete, opposite the leaves ; peduncles spicate, thrice*the lengtli 

 cent beneatli, but when young silky ; stipulas connate ; pedun- of the leaves ; legumes ovate, acute, 2-4-seeded. If. II. Na- 



twice the length of the leaves ; 

 Native of Nipaul, in Gosaing- 



Root long, 



A. 



cles axillary, few-flowered, 



legumes subulate, silky. 1/. H. 



stlian. Flowers purple, having a broad vexillum. 



thick, and woody, dividing into many arms at the base. 



macrorhizus, D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 245. 



Do7i's Milk-Vetch. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1818. PI. pr. 



19 A.arena'rius (Lin. spec. 10C9.) plant difflise, tomen- 

 tosc from white adpressed down ; stipulas concrete, opposite 

 the leaves ; leaflets linear-obtuse ; peduncles few-flowered, rather 



tive of Tauria, in gravelly or chalky places. Flowers purple, 

 varying to white, ex Bieb. taur. 2. p. 19;2. Oxytropis Tauri- 

 cus, Pers. ench. exclusive of the synonymes. A. cretaceus, 



Pall. ined. taur. 



Taurian Milk-Vetch. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 182C. 



i 



§2. Dissitiflori (from dtssitus^ distant, and^o^, a flower ; in re- 

 ference to the flowers being distant in the racemes). Z). C prod. 

 2. p, 284. Stiiulas distinct^ not adhering to the petiole. Pioneers 



shorter than the leaves ; legumes stipitate, rather tuniid, tomen- purplish or white, distant in the racemes. Legumes straight. 



[ tose, thrice the length of the breadth. 



. mark and Sweden, in sandy places. 

 ' t. 3. ~ " 



D, C. astr. no. 1. 



1/ . H. Native of Den- 

 Retz. obs. 2. no. 73. p. 3. 

 Corolla blue. The stems are erect, 

 ^ according to Retzius, but according to Willdenow and Linnaeus 

 they are prostrate. Root creepini,^ * 

 Sand Milk- Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1800. PL | foot. 

 ^^ 20 A. Bayonne'n 



_ procumbent, somewhat tomentose from white, adpressed down ; 



stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; peduncles 4-6-flowered, 



about equal in length to the leaves ; legumes almost sessile, 

 ^ rather tumid, tomentose, twice the length of the breadth. 1/ . H. 



^ative of the west of France, In sand by the sea-coast, at 

 J Bayonne. D.C. fl. fr. suppl. 573. A. Austriacus, Thore, but 



not of Lin. 



26 A. Austri'acus (Lin. spec. 1070.) plant diffusely pro- 

 cumbent ; leaflets glabrous, linear, truncately-cmarginate ; ra- 

 cemes pedunculate, longer than the leaves ; wings of corolla 

 bifid ; legumes somewhat triquetrous, pendulous, i;. H. Na- 

 tive of Spain, Dauphiny, Austria, Italy, Tauria, in dry exposed 



(Lois. fl. gall. 247.) plant diffusely- places, and of Russia, on the banks of the Volga. Jacq. austr. 



195. Vind. 263. D. C. astr. no. 1. A. dichopterus, Pall, 

 astr. t. 39. Allied to Oxytropis dichojitera. Flowers with a 

 blue vexillum, but the rest purple. 



Austrian Milk- Vetch. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1640. PI. diflf: 



27 A. oLo'pTERUs (D. C. prod. 2. p. 284.) plant diflTuse; 

 leaves with 6-7 pairs of linear, glabrous, entire, acutish leaf- 

 lets ; racemes pedunculate, twice or thrice the length of the 

 leaves; wings of corolla obtuse. %. H. Native of the Al- 

 taian mountains, and in the Kirghisean steppe. A. Austriacus, 

 Fish, in litt. The plant is very like the A. Austriacus, but 

 differs in the wings of the corolla being entire ; also like 



Flowers bluish-purple. 



Bayonne Milk- Vetch. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1816. PI. pr. 



21 A. VERRUCOSUS (Moris, elench- sard. p. 12.) plant pilose 

 and decumbent ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves, lanceo- 

 late-subulate ; leaves with 10-12 pairs of ovate-oblong leaflets ; 

 racemes longer than the leaves, many-flowered ; legumes arched, A. melilototdes, but differs from it in the leaves having many 



) oblong, acuminated, rather mucronulate, pilose. ©. H. Native 

 ^ of Sardinia. Flowers purple. 



W'ar/eJ-podded Milk- Vetch. 



pairs of leaflets. The flowers are pale, according to the dried 



specimen. 



Entire-winged Milk^y etch. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1817. PI. diff; 



28 A. MELiLOToiDEs (Pall. itin. ed. gall. t. 33. f. 1. and 2. 

 astr. t. 41.) plant erect, glabrous ; leaflets 5, oblong, emarginate; 

 racemes pedunculate, thrice the length of the leaves : wings of 



.._ , ^ _^ ^, corolla entire; legumes erect, ovate, didymous, 2-seedcd, 



ding, disposed in interrupted spikes ; wings much longer than wrinkled. 7/ . H. Native of Siberia, Altaia, Dahuria, and 



^he keel, and about equal in length to the vexillum; legumes China. D. C. astr. no. 37. Flowers purple. 



ovaHinear, straight, glabrous, apiculated by the style, hardly Me lilot-like Milk-Y etch. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 



rouble the length of the calyx, l/.H. Native of Dahuria and 29 A. sulcatus (Lin. spec. 10G5.) plant erect, glabrous ; 



PI. decumbent. 

 22 A. macr5pterus (D. C. prod. 2. p. 283.) plant erect and 

 smoothish ; young stipulas concrete and opposite the leaves, 

 "^ut at length becoming free ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acute ; 

 peduncles 2 or 3 times the length of the leaves ; flowers nod- 



beria. Astragalus and Oxytropis macroptera, Fisch. in litt. but 

 nere is no mucrone on the keel to be seen. Flowers purple. 

 ^ong-mi«gecZ Milk- Vetch. PI. 1 foot. 

 23 A. vaginVtus (Pall, astr. no. 49. t. 36.) plant erect, pu- 



scent ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; leaflets linear- 



anceolate, acute ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; flowers 



roopmg, disposed in dense spikes; legumes linear, straight. 



*•«• Native of Siberia, at the Uba, Jenesee, and Baikal. 



ouers of a whitish-purple colour, or white and purple mixed. 

 ^ h«s species is very nearly allied to A. versicolor, and probably 30 A. Cra'cca (D. C. astr. no. 2. t. y.; piant nmuse ; leanew 



only the same. The plant is also a native of North America. oval-oblong, emarginate, pubescent ; racemes pedunculate, about 



stem furrowed ; leaflets linear-lanceolate ; racemes pedunculate, 

 loncrer than the leaves ; wings of corolla entire ; legumes erect, 

 rather triquetrous, half bilocular. 1/. H. Native of Siberia, 

 in grassy places, and the Tartarian desert. Jacq, hort. vind. t. 

 40. D. C. astr. no. 35. Tium lineare, Moench. A. leptostachys, 

 Pall. astr. t. 40. but not of VYilld. Flowers pale-violet but with 



a white keel, tipped with brown. 



Furrowed-^iemmcdi Milk- Vetch. Fl. July. Clt. 178S. PI. 



2 to 3 feet. 



30 A. Cra'cca (D. C. astr. no. 2. t. 9.) plant diffuse ; leaflets 



Of - '^ "^ 2""*'*' *^ a\a%j a native \/i 



JAeafAed-stipuled Milk- Vetch. PI. 1 foot. 



cl ^h ^' ^^^^**^°^°» (Pali- astr. no. 48. t. 35.) plant erect and 

 g abrous ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; leaflets linear, 



equal in length to the leaves ; wings of corolla entire ; legumes 



%. G. Native of Peru. 



mpressed 



