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LEGUMlNOSiE, CXXXVI. Astbolobium. CXXXVII. Ornithopus. CXXXVIII. Hippocrepis. 



posed of numerous l-seeded, indehiscent, cylindrical joints, top of each. Flowers small, white or rose-coloured. All the 

 which are truncate at hoth ends. — Smooth European herbs, with species have a pinnate bractea under each head of flowers. 



impari-pinnate leaves. Stipulas wanting or very small, when 



1 O. compre'ssus (Lin. spec. 1049.) peduncles shorter than 



present they are joined in one, opposite the leaves, and therefore the leaves ; leaves villous, upper ones having the lower pair of 



bidentate at the apex. Flowers yellow, capitate, destitute of leaflets approximating the stem ; legumes compressed, pubes- 



the bractea to the head of the flow^ers. cent, wrinkled, incurved at the apex ; the joints oval. ©. H. 



1 A. ebractea'tum (D. C. prod. 2, p. 311.) peduncles about Native of the south of Europe and the north of Africa, in 



equal in length to the leaves, bractless at the apex; leaves all sandy places. Berg. phyt. t. 191. Ornithopodium compressum, 



pinnate ; leaflets elliptic-oblong, many-pairs, equal in size and 

 shape, lower ones distant from the stem ; legumes terete, arched. 



©. H. Native of Portugal, Spain, south of France, and Italy, PL prostrate. 



All. ped. no. 1245. Flowers small, yellow. 



Compressed-i^o&ded Bird*s-foot. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1731. 



Ornithopus la^vig^tus, Smith in Rees' cycl. 



O. ebrac- 



in gravelly places. 



no. 3. Ornuh. exstipulatus, Thore, chl. land. 311. 



te^tus, Brot. fl. Ins. 2. p. 1.59. Scorpiiirus pinnatus, Mill. diet. 



no. 5. ? O. nudiflorus. Lag. varied, esp. 2. p. 40. O. durus, 



D. C. fl. fr. no. 4039. but not of Cav, 



Dalech. hist. 1. p. 487. f. 1. 



Bractless Star- Vetch. Fl. June, July. 



O. pygmae'us, Viv.- 

 Flowers small, yellow. 



Clt. 1700. PI. pros. 



2 O. PERPUSiLLUs (Lin. spec. 1049.) peduncles longer than 

 the leaves ; leaves rather villous, upper ones having the lower 

 pair of leaflets approximating the stem ; legumes rather com- 

 pressed, glabrous, curved upwards, the joints elliptic, moderately 

 compressed. ©. H. Native of every part of Europe and 

 the North of Africa, on heaths and gravelly pastures ; plentiful 

 in Britain. Smith, engL bot. 369. Oed. fl. dan. 307. Curt. 



and the keel green. 



2 A. Du'iiUM (D. C. prod. 2. p. 311.) peduncles a little longer lond. 6. t. 53. Flowers small, usually 2-3 or 5 in a head, having 

 than the leaves, almost bractless at the apex ; stipulas concrete, the vexillum and wings white, and beautifully veined with crimson, 

 sheathing; lower leaves simple, the rest pinnate, with few pairs 

 of obcordate leaflets, the lower ones approximating the stem ; 

 legumes arched, rather tetragonal. ©. H. Native of Spain, 

 about Valentia and Madrid in bushy places, and of Portugal in 



O. 



vineyards. 



Ornithopus diirus, Cav. icon. 1. p. 31. t. 41. 



Flowers 



heterophyllus, Brot. phyt. t. 67. fl. lus. 2. p. 160. 



w. 



1 



Fl. Ju. July. Clt. 1816. PI. -^ to Common or Very small Bird's-foot. Fl. May, July. Britain. 



PI. prostrate. 



3 O. SATivus (Brot. fl. lus. 2. p. 160.) peduncles longer than 

 the leaves ; leaflets pubescent ; oval in the lower leaves, and 



yello 



//arJ-podded Star-Vetch. 



foot. 



8 A, repa'ndum (D. C, prod. 2. p. 311.) peduncles a little 

 shorter than the leaves, bractless at the apex ; stipulas concrete, 

 sheathing; lower leaves simple, ovate, and emarginate, upper 

 ones pinnate ; leaflets oblong, lower ones roundish, approximat- 

 ing the stem : legumes rather nodose, a little incurved, ©. H. 

 Native of Barbary in fields towards Lacalle. Ornithopus re- 

 pandus, Lam. ill. t. G31. f. 4, Poir. diet. 4. p. G20. O. lotoides, 

 Viv. Flowers yellow. 



^c/jawrf-podded Star- Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1805. PI. 

 prostrate. 



4 A. scoRpioiDEs (D. C. prod. 2. p. 311.) peduncles longer 

 than the leaves, bractless ; stipulas concrete, sheathing ; leaves 



Far. fi, nodosus (Mill. diet. no. 2.) root bearing ovoid tuber- 

 cles ; legumes pubescent. 0. H. Native of Europe, in several 

 parts of Britain and of France, very common about Paris. The 

 tubercles, which are said to be on the roots of this variety, are 

 to be found on the roots of almost all leguminous plants, which 

 arise from morbid excrescences. 



trifoliate; lower leaflets small, roundish, approximating the stem, 

 terminal one large, oval ; legume a little incurved, rather nodose. 

 O. H. Native of the south of Europe, in corn-fields. Orni- 

 thopus scorpioides, Lin. spec. 1049, Cav. icon. t. 37. Orni- 

 thopus trifoliutus. Lam. fl. fr. 2. p. 659. Ornithopodium scor- 

 pioides, All. Ornithopodium triphyllum, Mcench. Flowers 

 yellow. 



5corj)«'on-^<A:c-podded Star-Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1506. 

 PL ^ foot. 



Cult, The seeds of these plants only require to be sown in 

 the open border in spring. 



CXXXyiL ORNFTHOPUS (from opnc opviBoc^, ornis or- 



nithosy a bird, aud itovq, pous^ a foot ; the legumes are like the 

 claws of a bird, and are disposed somewhat in the same manner). 

 Desv.journ. bot. 3. p. 121. t. 5. f. 14. D. C. prod. 2. p. 311. 

 — Ornithopus species Lin. and others. Lam. ill. t. 631. — Orni- 

 thopodium, Tourn. iust. t. 224. Moench. meth. 



Lin. syst. Diadelphia, Decdndrla. Calyx tubular, almost 

 equally 5-toothe(l, bracteate. Keel of corolla small, compressed. 

 Stamens dicidelphous. Legume compressed, with many 1 - 

 seeded indehiscent joints, which are truncate at both ends, but 

 having parallel margins. — European, villous, annual herbs, with 

 impari-pinnate leaves, small stipulas which are adnata to the 

 petioles, axillary peduncles, bearing a few-flowered umbel at the 



lanceolate in the superior ones, the lower pairs approximating 

 the stem ; legumes hardly arched, with roundish compressed 

 knots. O. H. Native of Portugal and other parts of the south 

 of Europe, in rather wet sandy places and meadows. O. roseus, 

 Dufour. in litt. O. perpusillus /3, intermedins, Roth. fl. ger"^* 

 2. p. 215. Ornithopodium majus, C. Bauh. pin. 350. Ger. emac 

 1241. f. 3.— Moris, hist. sect. 2. t. 10. f 13. Flowers white 

 and red, mixed. 



Cultivated Bird's-foot. Fl. May, July. Clt. 1818. Vl^r^ 

 Cult, The seeds of these plants only require to be sown m 

 the open ground, in spring. None of the species are worth cul- 

 tivating, except in botanical gardens. 



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CXXXVIII. HIPPOCRFPIS (from iVttoc, hippos, ahorse, 



and K-pT^TTie, Jcrepis, a shoe; in reference to the shape of the recesses 

 of the pods, which are curved in such a manner as to give them 

 a hkeness to a horse's shoe). Lin. gen. 885. Lam. ill. t. 630. 

 B.C. prod. 2. p. 312. Ferrum-equinum, Tourn. inst. t. i225. 

 LiN. SYST. Diadelphia, Decandria. Calyx 5-cleft (^-^^'y 



Carina of corolla ^-edged a- 



with the lobes equal and acute. 



43. h.). Stamens diadelphous. Style filiform, acute. Leguije 

 having numerous, l-seeded joints, curved (f. 42. e.), hence the 

 upper side of the legume appears as if it were cut, from havjr^ 

 numerous rounded recesses. Seeds cylindrical or compressefl^ 

 oblong, curved, fixed to the middle part of the joint, and there- 

 fore the umbilicus is in the middle of the curve. — Herbs or suD- 

 shrubs, with impari-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers, which a|e 

 sometimes solitary and axillary, sometimes sessile, but usua y 

 disposed in umbels on the tops of the axillary peduncles. 



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§1. Boots per enniaL Legumes sinuaiedytvith the joints cuttc t 

 forming a broad open recess between each pair. 



1 H. Balea'rica (Jacq. misc. 2. p. 305. icon. rar. 1. p-^^^'' 

 shrubby, erect ; peduncles longer than the leaves, bearing ^ 



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