294 DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Astragalus. 



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no tendrils, Stipdas simple. Fl. spiked, clustered, or 

 tufted, purple, yellow, or whitish. Legumes of the greatest 

 variety of forms, even in species otherwise nearly allied. 



1. K.glycyphyllos, Sweet Milk-vetch. Wild Liquorice. 

 Stem prostrate. Legumes obscurely triangular, incurved. 



Leaves longer than the flower-stalks; leaflets oval. 



A. glycyphyllos. Linn. % PL 1067. WUld.v.S.WQ. Fl.Br.779. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 3. t. 203. Hook. Scot. 2 1 7. 



A. n.413. Hall. Hist. v.\. ISO. 



A. luteus perennis procumbens vulgaris, sive sylvestris. Rah Syn. 

 326. Moris, v. 2. 107. sect. 2. t. 9./. 8. 



Astragalus, Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 103. 



Hedysarum glycyrrhizatum. Ger. Em. 1233./. 



Foenogrsecum sylvestre. Trag. Hist. 599./. 



Glycyrrhiza sylvestris. Dalech. Hist. 25 1 . /. 



In woods, thickets, the borders of fields, or at the sides of hills, on 

 a chalky or gravelly soil. 



Perennial. June. 



Root perpendicular, running deep into the earth, simple at the 

 crown. St€7ns several, 2 or 3 feet long, prostrate among grass 

 or other plants, leafy, angular, nearly smooth, scarcely branched. 

 Leaves a span long, of 9 or 1 1 uniform, oval, bluntish, smooth, 

 bright green leajiets, about an inch in length. Stipulas ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire. R. pale sulphur-coloured, in ovate spikes, 

 on stout axillary stalks, much shorter than the adjoining leaf. 

 Bracteas solitary under each flower, awl-shaped. Legumes full 

 an inch long, nearly cylindrical, with a slight longitudinal furrow, 

 curved upwards, pointed, smooth and even. Seeds 7 or 8, yel- 

 lowish. 



The leaves have at first a sweetish taste, soon changing on the pa- 

 late to a nauseous bitter. Cattle are not fond of them, nor is 

 this plant applied to any agricultural use. 



2. A. hypoglottis. Purple Mountain Milk-vetch. 



Stem prostrate. Flow^ers in round heads. Legumes ovate, 



deeply channelled along the back, compressed, hairy ; 



hooked at the point. Leaflets blunt. 

 A. hypoglottis. Linn. Mant.2. 274. Willd. v. 3. 12S5. Fl.Br.780, 



Engl.Bot.v.4.t.274. Hook. Scot. 2\7 . Sibth.227. 

 A. arenarius. Hiids.323. Fl.Dan.t.6\4. 

 A. Danicus. Retz. Obs.fasc. 3. 41. 



A. epiglottis, Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. \.\3; but not really so. 

 A. incanus parvus purpureus nostras. Pluk. Almag. 59 j with 



wrong synonyms of the Bauhins. Rail Syn. 326. 1. 12./ 3. . 



