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 Medicago Carstiensis. Creeping- 

 Rooted Medick. 



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DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Legmen compreflum, cochleatum. Carina corolla a vexillo 

 defle&ens. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



MEDICAGO carjlienjis ; pedunculis multifloris, leguminibus 

 cochleatis utrinque compreflis, aculeis fubulatis 

 reBis, ftipulis dentatis, caule ere&o. Wiltd. 

 Sp. PL 3. p. i4»2. 



MEDICAGO carjlienfis; caule ereHo, radice perenm rep- 

 tante, floribus umbellatis, leguminibus coch- 

 leatis fetalis. Jacq. Coll. 1. p. 86. lc. rar. 1. 

 t. 156. HoftSyn. 417. 



MEDICA cochleata polycarpos, capfula fpinofa mmorc, per- 

 ennis ciliaris five capfulis cilianbus nigns. 

 Morif. Hifl. 2. p. 154. 



MEDICA ciliaris Guilandini. Rail Hifl. 965. 



This fpecies of Medicago is undoubtedly diftina from all 

 the fuppofed varieties of Medicago polymorph** particularly 



in having a perennial creeping root and upright, iquare, almolt 



fhrubby ftalks. . ~ . . 



Found by Bursati in the Carftian mountains in Camiola, 

 by whom feeds were lent to Profeflbr J acquis. Although 

 feemindv confidercd by him as entirely new, it was known 

 to tame of the older Botanic Ray gathered his plant in the 

 mountains of Carinthia. Reichard, in his edition of the 

 Species Plantarum, added the Synonyms of Ray and Mot- 

 ion to the ciltarts, in which he was followed by Profeflor 



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