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-HepysaruM OpscuRUM. CREEPING 
ROOTED HEDYSARUM. 
Si abe wb ale als abe ate dp sle dp 
SRE eR She lata 
= ee Clafs and Order. 
DIaApvpELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Chara@er. 
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Cor. carina tranfverfe obtufa. Legumen articulis 1-f{permis. — 
Specific Charader and Synonyms. 
HEDYSARUM obfcurum foliis ,pinnatis, ftipulis vaginalibus, 
caule ereéto flexuofo, floribus pendulis, Linn. 
“ Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. oe. Mant. 
| — 447. facq. Fi. Aufir. 0. 2. t. 168. 
= HEDYSARUM caule re€to, ramofo; foliis ovatis; Biquis 
= pendulis, leviffimis, venvlis: Hall. Hif. ee. 
Me 395- L235 
ONOBRYCHIS femine clypeato levi. Baub. Pin, 350. 
Prof. Jacquin, in the fecond volume of the Flora 
aufiriaca, gives an excellent figure and accurate defcription 
~ of our plant, a native of the Alps of Germany and Switzer- 
land, and points out the. charaéters in which it differs fro 
the alpinum, for which it has fometimes been miftaken, | 
-Itis a hardy perennial, rarely exceeding a foot in heig 
produces its {pikes of pendulous flowers, which are of a molt 
_ beautiful purple colour, in July and Auguft; hitherto thefe 
have not been fucceeded by feed-veffels with us, though we 
have cultivated the plant for {everal years. 
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Its fize renders it a fuitable plant for rock-work, on which 
it will grow readily, increafing by i its roots, which are of t 
creeping kind. | 
Haier mentions a variety of it with white fle 
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