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ASTRAGALUS PROCUMBENS. PROCUMBENT 
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Class and Order. 
DiapEtpHi1A DeEcANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosa. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla carina obtusa. Stamina dia- 
delpha. Legumen biloculare aut semibiloculare, sutura 
inferiore introflexa. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
AsTrRAGALus procumbens; ubique hirsuto-tomentosus, caule 
prostrato ramoso, stipulis concretis liberis, foliolis 11- 
—14-jugis ellipticis retusis, pedunculis folio longio- 
ribus, capitulis racemosis, alis carina multo brevioribus, 
leguminibus (immaturis) linearibus hirsutis reflexis. — 
Asrracatus procumbens. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of Beech. 
Voy. v. 1. p. 18. et in Bot. Misc. v. 2. p. 186. 
_Descr. Root descending, perennial. Stems procum- 
bent, in the cultivated specimen short, in our native ones 
a foot and a half or more long, procumbent, more or less 
branched ; the branches terete, clothed with dense, white 
down. Leaves three to four inches long, pinnated with 
nearly opposite elliptical leaflets, which in the specimens 
before me are likewise clothed with very copious and com- — 
pact, white, woolly down, except the lower leaves which, © 
have the leaflets broader and almost glabrous. Stipules” 
free from, or not adnate with the petiole, but meeting on the 
Opposite side of the stem, where the edges are connate, 
membranous, reddish. Peduncles terminal and axillary, 
solitary, longer than the leaves, bearing a dense, oval, or 
oblong Q 
