428 ORD. XXIV. Papilionacee.  ASTRAGALUS EXSCAPUS. 
spirit they give out the whole of their distinguishing smell and 
taste, and afterwards to water a strong flavourless mucilage.’’® 
These seeds are never given internally, their principal use being 
in cataplasms and fomentations, for softening, maturating, and 
discussing tumours; and in emollient glysters. They were also 
an ingredient in the olewm e mucilaginibus of the shops: but this -. 
has no longer a place in the pharmacopezia. 
= * Lewis, M. M. p. 304. 
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SYNONYMA. Astragalus exscapus. Off. Murray. vi. 83. 
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Jacquin Collect. ad bot. vol. 2. p. 269. Icon, ejusd. Plant. rar. 
vol. 2. fasc. 1. t. 17. * Cf. Winterl. Ind. Hort. bot. Pestin. p. 14. 
Astragalus perennis supinus, foliis et siliquis hispidis, flore luteo. 
Knauth. Fl. Hal. p. 41. Buxbaum. Fl. Hal. p.32. Cicer mon- 
tanum axaarw  Bauh. Pin. 341. Glaux lanuginosa montana 
acaulos. Rupp. Fl. Jen. ed. Hall. 270. Ic. Girtanner. l. c. inf. 
Diadelphia Decandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 892. 
Gen. Ch. Legumen biloculare, gibbum. 
Sp. Ch. A. acaulis exscapus, leguminibus lanatis, foliis villosis. 3 
ROOT perennial, simple, or generally branched towards the 
extremity ; very long, slender, running deeply in the ground, 
Leaves all radical, long, pinnated, consisting of numerous pinne, 
which are regular, ovate, opposite, villous, entire, gradually 
smaller towards the top of the leaf, at.which stands a single leafit. 
The flowers are large, of a pale yellow colour, and placed at the 
crown of the root. Calyx tubular, deeply cut into five long | 
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