LEGUMINOSiE. CXXXV. Coronilla. CXXXVI. Astrolobium. 



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Croww-flowered Coronilla. FL July, Aug. Clt. 1776. PI. 1 der, especially in dry seasons. Horses and cows seem to eat it 



greedily. However, Mr. Curtis remarks that its bitterness will 



to 2 feet. 



10 C. monta'na (Scop. earn. ed. 2. p. 912. t. 44.) plant her- 

 baceous, erect, glabrous ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves, 

 oblong, emarginale, deciduous ; leaflets 7, ovate, mucronate, 

 rather glaucous, lower ones approximating the stem ; umbels 15- 

 gO-flowered.' l!/ . H, Native of Germany, Carniola, and Swit- 

 zerland, on the mountains. C. coronata, Bieb. fl. taur. 1434. 

 Sims, bof. mag. 907. — Riv. tetr. t. 207. (f. 41.) 



Mounlain Coronilla. Fl. Ju. July. Clt. 1776. PI. 1 to 1| ft. 



lie. Ibe'rica (Bieb. fl. taur. 2. p, 173.) plant herbaceous, 

 prostrate, glabrous ; stipulas distinct, membranous, orbicular, 

 denticulated; leaflets 9-11, obcordate, ciliated; umbels 7-8- 

 flowered ; legumes tetragonal, incurved. ^. H. Native of 

 Iberia and Cappadocia. Willd. spec. 8. p. 1152. Sweet, fl. 

 gard. 25. Lodd. bot. cab, 789. C. orientalis, Mill. Flowers 

 large, yellow. Root creeping. 

 , Ibetian Coronilla. 



Fl. July, Aug. 



Clt. 1822. PI. ascending. 



12 C. squama'ta (Cav. icon. 1. 155.) plant herbaceous, erect ; 

 stipulas lanceolate-ovate, membranous, somewhat ciliated ; leaf- Flowers large, pale yellow. 



be an objection to its being cultivated for cattle. 



Far/owi-flowered Coronilla. Fl. June, Nov. Clt. 1640. PI. 

 diffuse. 



17 C. GLOBOSA (Lam. diet. 2. p. 122.) herbaceous, glabrous ; 

 stipulas small, acute ; leaflets oblong-elliptic, 11-13, obtuse, 

 low^er ones distant from the stem ; umbels globose, 20-30-flow- 

 ered; legumes pendulous. 1/. H. Native of Candia in fields. 

 C. Cretica herbacea flore magno candido, Tourn. cor. 44. 

 Flowers pink or white. Perhaps only a variety of C varta. 



G/oiose-flowered Coronilla. Fl. July, Nov. Clt. 1800. PI. 

 diffuse. 



t Doubtful species. 



18 C. ? sca'ndens (Lin. spec. 1048.) stem scandent, flaccid ; 

 leaflets 5, ovate; peduncles axillary, twin, 1-flowered, prickly; 

 legumes terete, articulated, glabrous. — Native of South America. 



Plum, ed. Burm. t. 107. f. 3. 



Perhaps a species of PozV^/Za. 



lets 9-11, obovate, pubescent, lower ones remote from the stem ; 



Climbing Coronilla. PL cl. 



umbels 7-8-flowered; legumes scurfy from scales. 1/. H. Na- 19 C. multiflora (D. C. prod. 2. p. 310.) plant suffVuticose, 



tive of Spain, near the town of Lamota del Cuervo. Flowers glabrous ; stipulas small, lanceolate ; leaflets 7-9, oblong-cu- 



Fl. June, July. Clt. 1820. 



PI. I 



yellow. 



*S'cfl/y-podded Coronilla. 

 foot. 



13 C. PAiiviFLoRA (Willd. spec. 3. p. 1155.) plant herba- 

 ceous, much branched, rather scabrous from reflexed stiff' hairs ; 

 leaflets 9, cuneate, emarginate, glabrous ; stipulas ovate, very 

 minute ; umbels 5 -flowered ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; 

 legumes terete, arched. 



neate, obtuse, lower ones approximating the stem ; umbels 15- 

 20-flowered. T? . F. Native of Spain. Branches terete, spread- 

 ing, flexuous. Flowers pale, perhaps yellow, perhaps white. 



Many-Jlowered Coronilla. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



20 C. HiRsu'xA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 310.) stem herbaceous, 

 erect, clothed with white hairs, as w^ell as the peduncles and 

 leaves; leaves with 6-8 pairs of oval obcordate leaflets ; stipulas 

 leafy, roundish-cordate ; peduncles longer than the leases; um- 



% . H. Native of Candia and Tauria, 

 on exposed hills. C. Cretica herbacea, &c. Tourn. cor. 44. C. bels globose, 8-12-flowered ; calyx beset with black hairs. % . G. 

 Valeniina, Palh ined. Bieb. fl. taur. 2. p. 173. 

 Cretica, but differs in the flowers being yellow. 

 Small-Jiowered Coronilla. ^^ ^ 



Very like C Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Coronilla argentea, Burm. 



PL 1 foot. 



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Flowers purpley pink^ or white. 



cap. 22. Thunb. fl. cap. 592.? Legume unknown. 

 Hairy Coronilla. PI. 1 foot. 

 Cult. 



All the species of Coronilla, both shrubby and herba- 

 ceous, are worthy of cultivation in every collection, for the beauty 



14 C. vimina'lis (Salisb. par. t. 13. Ait. hort. kew. ed. 2. of their flowers, as well as^for the neatness of their herbage. 



\^}y P* 231-) suflTruticose ; stipulas ovate, membranous, soon 

 jailing off*; leaflets 13-21, obovate, retuse, mucronate, glaucous, 

 lower ones approximating the stem 



^- H. Native of Mogodor. Branches hardly angular. Flowers 

 l^rge, ^ pale, having the vexillum lined with red lengthwise, 

 changmg from pale to deeper purple. 

 Twiggy QoromW^. "' " " '" 



The hardy shrubby kind, C E'merus, is very proper for the 



front of slirubberies. It thrives in any kind of soil, and flowers 



umbels 6-10-flowered. the greater part of the year. Ripened cuttings of it root freely 



if planted in autumn in the open ground. The frame and green- 

 house shrubby kinds are beautiful plants of easy culture ; they 

 grow best in a mixture of loam and peat, and cuttings of them 



Fl. May, Nov. Clt. 1798. Sh, 2 to 4 ft. strike readily in sand under a hand-glass ; they may be turned 



, 15 C. Cre'tica (Lin. spec. 1048.) plant herbaceous, ascend- 

 ing, glabrous; stipulas small, acute; leaflets 11-13, cuneated, 

 J'etuse, the lower ones remote from the stem ; umbels 3-6-flow- 

 £5^d- O.H. 



J lowers white, having the vexillum streaked with red, and the 

 ^eel dark purple. Jacq. hort. vind. t. 



Native of Candia, Tauria, and Italy, on hills. 



A ,s ^ ^P^^' J^cq. ..w».. 

 Astrolobium Creticum, Desv. 



Cretan Coronilla. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1731. PI. ascending. 



16 C. va'ria (Lin. spec. 1048.) plant herbaceous, diffuse, 

 «exuous, glabrous; stipulas distinct, lanceolate; leaflets 9-13, 



ong, elliptic, mucronate, lower ones approximating the stem ; 

 ^YI^ ^^20-flowered ; legumes angular, very long, straight. 

 ^ • H. Native of Europe and Tauria, in fields and meadows, 

 ^"rt. bot. mag. 258. Mill. fig. t. 106,— Clus. hist. 2. p. 237. f. 

 ^: /Astragalus glaucoides, Gmel. itin. 1. 1. 21. ex Bieb. Flowers 

 nl^ f ^^^^^^ ^^*^^^^' ^^ \ei\gi\i drooping. Root creeping. 



out into the open border in spring, where they will make shewy 

 bushes and flower all the summer, and if the winters are not 

 very severe they will live with very little protection. The 

 hardy perennial herbaceous kinds are most handsome when cul^ 

 tivated in pots, and placed among other alpine plants. C. varia 



25. C. parviflora, Moench. globosa and Iberica are very hardy, but become troublesome if 



plant w 



This 



catS ^^ ^*^^>^erly proposed to be cultivated as a proper food for 



♦ ^"d |t was found that it grew very readily, and might be 



ev^^ ^^r ^^^'^^ *° ^^^ farmer. In a good soil the stems will grow 



snfn '^"^* ^"^ ^^ tender their whole length, so that a 



^^i spot of ground will supply a considerable quantity of fod- 



planted in the open ground, as their roots run so much as to 

 injure every other plant near them, and they are afterwards diflfi- 

 cult to eradicate. C coronata minima and montana are well 

 adapted for rock-work, but do not long exist in such a situation, 

 as they are apt to be killed in severe winters. The annual species, 

 C. Cretica^ requires the treatment of other hardy annuals. 



CXXXVI. ASTROLO BIUM (from aarpov, astron, a star, 

 and Xo/3oc, lobos, a pod ; in reference to the disposition of the 

 pods like the rays of a star). Desv. journ. bot. 3. p. 121. t. 4. f. 

 10. D. C. prod. 2. p. 311. — Ornithopus species of Lin. and 



others. 



Lin. syst. DtadeljMa, Decdndria. Calyx bractless, tubular, 

 nearly equally 5-toothed. Keel of corolla small, compressed. 

 Stamens diadelphous. Legume nearly terete, constantly com- 



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