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This is a very charming plant, clothed with a beautiful silky pubes- 

 cence, especially on the young leaves. Leaflets 8 — 12 pairs, with 

 an odd one, narrow, ovate, acute. Scape 4 to G inches high when 

 in fruit. Flowers capitate, large, bright purple. 



2. A. campeslris {yeUowish Mountain Milk Vetch), somewhat 

 silky stemiesSj scape about the same length as the leaves, le- 

 gumes erect ovate inflated pubescent semibilocuiar. E. B. 

 ^.2522. 



Hab. On a rock on one of the mountains at the head of Clova, near 



the White \^'ater, G. Don. Fl. July. 1/ . 

 Leaflets elliptical-lanceolate. Flowers capitate, yellowish, tinged with 



purple. 



*■* Keel of the Cor. obtuse. Legume with the lower suture having its 

 margins introflexed (Astragalus, Decand.). 



3. A. hypoglottis [purple Moimtain Milk-Vetch), stem pro- 

 strate^ leaflets slightly emarginate, legumes erect capitate hairy 

 their cells I -seeded. Liglitf. p. 400 {A. nrenarius). E. B. 

 t.274. 



Hab. Hilly pastures. King's Park, Edinb. ; Sands, Musselburgh ; 

 Hill of Moncrief, near Perth ; and in dry ground near York Cas- 

 cade, at the Duke of Athol's, Blair, Light/. Coast near Granton, 

 Edinb., plentituUy, Maugh. Banks of the Tay, near Delvine, Perth- 

 shire ; and Links of St. Fergus, Mr. Murray. Hill of Kinnoul, by 

 Perth, Mr. Borrer and Hook. Fl. July. % . 



Stem weak, a few inches in length. Leaflets elliptico-ovate, retuse, 

 hairy. Peduncles longer than the leaves, curved upwards. Heads 

 oi flowers large, blueish purple. Legumes ovate, acuminate, hairy. 



4. A. ghjcypliyllos {siveet Milk-Vetch), stem prostrate, legumes 

 somewhat triangular curved sessile glabrous, leaves longer 

 than the peduncles_, leaflets oval. Liglitf. p. 399. E. B. 

 t. 203. 



Hab. W^oods, but not common. Coryton woods, near Edinb., Dr. 

 Parsons. Banks of the Water of Leith, between Coltbridge and 

 Saughtonhall ; many places on the coast between Nether Cramond 

 and Queenbfcrry, Maugh. Fl. July. 1/ . 



Readily distinguished by its great size. Stem prostrate, 2 — 3 feet 

 long. Leaves with large, ovate, acute stipules. Flowers dingy yel- 

 low. Legumes an inch or more long, curved. 



14. TRIFOLIUM. 



* Flowers racemose (Melilotus, Decand.). 

 ]. Tr. officinale [comynon Melilot), legumes racemed naked 2- 



seeded rugged, stipules lanceolato-subulate undivided, leaflets 



obovato-oblong toothed, stem erect. Lightf. p. 402. E. B. 



t. 1340. 

 Hab. Bushy places and by way-sides. F/. July. ©, 

 Stem 2 — 3 feet high. Flowers in peduncidated, axillary racemes^ se- 



cund, yellow. 



