72 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



in lateral fascicles, calyx hairy, standard glabrous, 

 branches leafy, covered with spreading hairs; Southern 

 Switzerland, Dauphiny. C. capitatus, Jacq.; flowers in 

 a dense terminal corymb, stem erect, covered with 

 spreading hairs, calyx hairy; Jura, Pyrenees. C. supi- 

 nus, L.; resembling the last, but stem prostrate, flowers 

 only 2-4, smaller ; Dauphiny, Pyrenees. C. glabrescens, 

 Sart.; glabrous, flowers in lateral fascicles, with long 

 flower-stalks ; rare ; Ticino, Como. C. nigricans^ L. ; 

 racemes erect, leafless, stem 3-4 ft. ; stony slopes ; 

 Switzerland. C. austriacus, L. ; racemes terminal, stem 

 erect, pubescent, leaves lanceolate, calyx and legume 

 slightly hairy ; Carniola. 



E. Flowers purple: — C. purpureuSy Scop.; flowers 

 solitary, axillary, on short stalks, stem ascending, nearly 

 simple, calyx, leaves, and legume glabrous ; Tirol, Styria, 

 Carniola, Carinthia. 



Tribe Trifolie^. — Leaves trifoliolate, with usually 

 adnate stipules, without tendrils ; uppermost filament 

 usually distinct (diadelphous). Mostly herbaceous. 

 Genera 6-1 1. 



6. Ononis, L. 



Flowers solitary or few; filaments monadelphous. 

 Mostly prostrate hairy herbs or small shrubs. 



A, Flowers yellow; sub-alpine: — O. Natrix^ L. ; 

 flowers large, in terminal leafy racemes, standard orbi- 

 cular, streaked with red, stem-leaves sometimes with 

 5-7 leaflets, leaflets oblong, finely dentate, stalked, plant 

 glandular-viscid and foetid ; Southern Switzerland, Car- 

 niola, Styria, Pyrenees. O. Coluin7i(By All. ; flowers 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves, small, pale yellow. 



