LEGUMINOS^E 79 



Wulf. ; flowers light blue or lilac, standard longer than 

 the wings, pairs of leaflets 6-10, stipules coherent, but 

 free from the leaf-stalk, calyx covered with black hairs, 

 plant pubescent, 2-4 in. ; Switzerland, Carniola, Tirol, 

 Pyrenees. A. Onobrychis, L. ; pairs of leaflets 8-12, 

 flowers large, in dense racemes, standard 2-3 times as 

 long as wings, linear, stipules as in the last ; high ; 

 Southern Switzerland, Dauphiny, Tirol, Carniola. A. 

 purpureus^ Lam. ; flowers blue-purple, in a globular 

 spike, stalk longer than the leaves, calyx campanulate, 

 with spreading hairs, pairs of leaflets 10-12, stipules as 

 in the last ; a hairy plant, 4-6 in. ; ston}' ; Southern Tirol, 

 Carniola, Pyrenees. A. hypoglottis (danicuSy Retz) ; 

 flowers purple-blue, calyx with black hairs, leaflets 

 oblong or linear-oblong, stipules connate, stalk of spike 

 very long, plant hairy; a lowland species. A. vesicarius, 

 L. ; flowers large, violet, spike globular, calyx hairy, 

 pod almost entirely enclosed in the calyx, leaflets small, 

 in 4-7 pairs, plant silver- white ; Dauphiny. A. austri- 

 acus, L. ; flowers very small, pale blue spotted with 

 violet, spike loose, oblong, stipules free, plant glabrous; 

 Dauphiny, Carniola. A. incanus^ L. ; flowers light 

 purple, spike globular, stipules linear, partially coherent 

 to the leaf-stalk, plant prostrate, covered with silky 

 hairs; Dauphiny. A. oroboides, Horn.; flowers violet, 

 keel shorter than the standard, legume hairy ; Styria, 

 Tirol, rare. 



B. Flowers white, or white and violet: — A. australis^ 

 Lam. {Phaca australis^ L.), wing-petals deeply bifid, 

 leaflets in 4-8 pairs; high pastures. A. alpinus, L. 

 {Phaca astragalinay DC), pairs of leaflets 7-1 1, stipules 

 free, flowers horizontal or pendant, very pale, fragrant, 



