DIADELPHIA. 
(3) Legumen 2-celled. : 
ASTRA’GALUS. Legumen 2-celled, curved. 
(4) Legumen with about 1 seed. i. Pad 
TRIFO’/LIUM. Legwmen longer than the cup ; with 1 ‘or 
2 seeds: flowers (mostly) in heads. 
[ Medicago lupulina. Hedysarum Onobrychis. ] 
(5) Legumens almost jointed; sometimes spiral. Sr. 
HEDY’SARUM. Legumen with roundish compressed 
joints: Keel very blunt. 
ORNI’THOPUS. Legumen jointed; bent ike a bow. 
HIPPOCRE’PIS. Legumen compressed; membranace- 
ous; 1 of the seams hollowed out with very deep 
notches. 
MEDICA’GO. ey ga spiral ; membranaceous: com- 
pressed; Pisti/ pressing down the keel. 
(6) eens gf 2 E cell; with 2 or more seeds: (without 
ks of the former subdivisions.) 
ER’VU a sree with : Critees nearly equal ; and nearly 
as long as the bloss 
LO'TUS. Legumen cylindrical; filled with cylindrical 
seeds, a 
— 
Linnzus also give us the following natural arrangement of 
the different gene 
Wincep witout an opp Learit. Orebus, Pisum, Lathy- 
ras, Vicia, Erv. 
Wincep wirn an opp Learir. Astragalus, Hedysarum. 
Wirn THREE Learits. Trifolium, Lotus, Medicago, Genistay 
Ononis 
Fiowers in Umaets. Lotus, Ornithopus, Hippocrepis. 
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