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ASTRAGALUS* succulentus. 

 Succulent Milk Vetch. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminos^:. 



ASTRAGALUS. — Supra, vol. 2. fol. 176. 



I. PuiiPURASCENTES ; stipuHs d petiolo liberis, floribus purpu- 

 rascentibus. 



§ 3. Onobrychoidei ; stipulis a petiolo et inter se distinctis, floribus pur- 

 purasceiitibus dense spicatis capitatisve, vexillis linearibus elongatis, legu- 

 minibus rectis rarii\s falcatis, radicibus perennibus. Dec. prodr. 2. 285. 

 A. succulentus ; decumbens glabriusculus, foliolis ovalibus obtusis, stipulis 



triangularibus, spicis confertis pedunculatis folio brevioribus. Spreng. 



syst. 4. part 2. p. 288. 

 A. succulentus. Richardson in Franklin' s journey . 



Prostratus, tindique leviter pubescens. Folia ascendentia, foliolis 

 \0-\'2-jugis, oblongis, obtusis; stipulis membranaceis, triquetris. Pedunculi 

 ascendentes, ad apicem racemosi, multijiori. Bractese ovatce, acuminutce, 

 scarioscB. Calyx pedicellatus, tubulosus, 5-dentatus, pilis nigris obsitus. 

 Floras purpurascentes. Vexillum oblongum. 



Originally found by Dr. Richardson in Arctic America, 

 and published by him in the Supplement to Captain Sir 

 John Franklin's account of his memorable expedition. 

 We are not aware that any seeds were brought home at 

 that time. The plant from which our drawing was made 

 came up from seeds collected by Mr. Douglas in the 

 vicinity of the Sascatchewan River, a stream which rises 

 in the Rocky Mountains, in the country of the Arthabascow 

 Indians, in latitude 53° or 54° north, and, after running 



* The »(rre,^yot.Xo<; of Dioscorides was the Orobus vernus : why a word 

 signifying a vertebral bone of an animal, or a die used for play, was applied 

 to that species, we do not know. 



