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98 DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
ces? v. v. Collected also in China by Sir G. Staunton. w. s. 
in Herb. Lambert. Ors. Nearly stemless and hirsutely 
pilose, leaflets oval, or oblong-oval, above smooth; pedun- 
cles various, equal with or shorter than the leaves; spikes 
subcapitate; flowers ochroleucous, small; legume canes- 
cently villous, teretely subcymbiform. 
2. * cespitosa. Cespitose, canescently villous, ‘and stem- 
less; leaves digitate, ternate and quinate; leaflets lanceo- 
late, acute at each end; flowers scapeless, aggregated, sti- 
pules membranaceous, amorphous; legume pubescent, 
subcylindric. Astragalus triphyllus. Pus 2.p.740. Has. On 
arid gravelly hills near the confluence of Sawanee river and 
the Missouri. Ons. Plants aggregated in numerous tufts: 
caudex short and proliferous; petioles 2 to 3 inches long, 
leafiets about an inch, somewhat shining; flowers sessile 
on the candex, aggregated i in dense clusters, and as well 
as the leaves subtended by broad sheathing and amor- 
phous membranaceous scales; calix pilose, cylindric, near 
an inch long, border subulately 5-toothed; corolla ochro- 
leucous, exserted beyond the calix nearly its length; le- 
gume short.—Flowering in May. 
A small genus chiefly indigenous to Europe and Siberia. 
499, OXYTROPIS. Decandolle. AstRacauus. L. 
Carina terminating above ina subulate ap- 
pendage. Legume bilocular or subbilocular, 
the upper suture inflected. 
"Habit similar to Astragalus. 
-Srzcizs. 1. 0. Lambertii. Pu. core and stem- 
, leaflets numerous, linear-lanceolate, and ra- 
remote; common petiole very long; scape longer than 
__ the leaves, spike oblong, ae es Coeur Se te than 
os Ane ca Has. On the woodless hills of the Mis- 
~- souri, from the river Platte to the Mountains. Mr. 
Pursh’s character is taken from a solitary, luxuriant and 
cultivated specimen, which I obtained from seeds, and is 
inapplicable in nature. Oxs. Flowers bright purple, ca- 
rina with a subulate appendage; nein, smooth, black, 
and si _ subterete, seen ee ee eee bilocular. 
- 500. ASTRAGALUS. L. (Mlilk-Vetch.)_ = 
Carina obtuse. Legume bilocujar, or subbi-_ 
“toculary inferior sulnsogee ected. 
