DIADELPHIA-DECANDRIA. Anthyllis. 2G9 



ish. Germ, oblong or half-ovate. Sti/le awl-shaped, as- 

 cending. Stigma obtuse. Legume small, roundish, or 

 oblong, a little turgid, concealed within the enlarged in- 

 flated calyx, of 1 cell and 2 valves. Seeds 1 or 2, round- 

 ish-kidney-shaped, smooth. 

 Elegant herbaceous or shrubby, Europaean or African /?Z«w/5, 

 with variously pinnate leaves, soft or silky pubescence, and 

 mostly capitate and terminal, yellow or whitish, rarely 

 red, powers, 



1. A. vulnerar'ia. Common Kidney-vetch, or La- 

 dies' finger. 



Herbaceous. Leaves pinnate, unequal. Heads of flowers 

 in pairs. 



A. vulneraria. Linn. Sp. PL 1012. frUld. v. 3. 1013. FL Br. 759. 



Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 104. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 3. 1 0. Hook. Scot. 



213. Fl.Dan.t.98S. 

 A. leguminosa. Ger. Em. \ 240. f. Lob. lev. 2. 87. f. 

 A. lenti similis. Dod. Pempt. 552. f. 

 A. prior Dodonsei. Dalech. Hist.]3S0.f. 

 Anthyllis. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 18./. 1. 

 Vulneraria n. 398. Hall. Hist. v.\. 173. 

 V. rustica. Buii Syn. 325. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 362./. 

 Loto affinis, Vulneraria pratensis. Bauh. Pin. 332. Moris, v. 2. 



\S\.sect.2. t.\7.f. 1,2. 

 /3. A. vulneraria, flore rubro. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 18. 18. 

 \'ulneraria supina, flore coccineo. Dill, in Raii Syn. 325. Hart. 



Elth.A3\. t.320. 

 Loto affinis hirsuta, flore subrubente. Bauh. Pin. 333. 



In chalky or limestone countries, where the soil is dry and rather 

 barren. 



/3. In Pembrokeshire. Mr.Lltwyd, and Mr. Dickson. 



Perennial. June — Angnst. 



Root woody. Stems annual, round, hairy, leafy, mostly simple, 

 ascending, about a foot high, Radical leaves simple, elliptical, 

 on long stalks, soon disa))pearing ; the rest alternate, i)innate, 

 with a terminal elliptical leaflet, and several pairs of opposite, 

 smaller, more lanceolate ones ; all entire • smooth, and a little 

 glaucous above ; hairy, or rather silky, underneath and at the 

 margin. Fl. numerous, in a pair of crowded terminal head.s, 

 accompanied by fingered /;rr/<7<.'a6-. Cal. membranous, pale and 

 hiirv. Cor. usually yellow, rarely of a line red ; in (iermany, 

 according to Mailer, most frecpiently white. Lci^ume semi- 

 orbic'ilar, compressed, veiny, smooth, with a solitary seed. 



C. (iesner/it seems, first raised the report of the vulnerary pro- 

 perties of this plant, which perhaps, like other soft and downy 



