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| PAPILONACEA. | 
ASTRAGALUS EXSCAPUS. | STEMLESS MILK VETCH. 
Cacia ne le poem 
SYNONYMA. Aftragalus exfcapus. Of: Murray. vi. 83. Sacquin 
Colled. ad bot. vol. 2. p. 269. Icon, ejufd. Plant. rar. vol. 2. fafe. 
1.¢,17. Cf. Winterl. Ind, Hort. bot. Peftin. p. 14.  Aftragalus 
perennis {upinus, foliis et filiquis hifpidis, flore luteo. Knauth. Fl. 
Hal. p. 41. - Buxbaum. Pl. Hal. p- 32. Cicer montanum auxron, 
Baub. Pin. 341. Glayx lanuginofa montana acaulos, Rupp. Fi. 
Jen. ed. Hall. 270. Ic. Girtauner. lc. inf. : 
Diadelphia Decandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 892. 
Gen. Ch. Legumen biloculare, gibbum.. - : 
Sp. Ch. A. acaulis exfcapus, leguminibus lanatis, foliis villofis. 
ROOT perennial, fimple, or generally branched towards the 
extremity; very long, flender, running deeply in the ground. Leaves 
all radical, long, pinnated, confifting of numerous pinnz, which are 
tegular, ovate, oppolite, villous, entire, gradually {maller towards. 
the top of the leaf, at which ftands a fingle leafit. The flowers are 
large, of a pale yellow colour, and placed at the crown of the root. 
Calyx tubular, deeply cut into five long pointed teeth. Corolla 
papilionacious, confifting of the vexillum, which is large, ftraight, 
clofing, emarginated at the apex, two alz or oblong lateral petals,, 
and a fhort blunt carina or keel-fhaped under-petal. Filaments ten, . 
nine of which are united, and all furnifhed with. {mall roundith * 
anthere. Germen oblong. ~ Style tapering, bent upwards, and: 
fupplied with a blunt ftigma. Pod oblong, hairy, two-valved, con- 
taining kidney-fhaped feeds. 3 (ie 
This fpecies of Aftragalus is a native of Hungary, growing in 
mountainous fituations, It was firft introduced into the Royal Garden. 
at Kew by Jacquin in 1787 sah ae dss 
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