70 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Stems moderately stout. Flowers usually in pairs, or three 
together. Wings tapering to the apex in the last quarter of their 
length. Beak of the keel forming a little more than a right angle 
with the basal portion. Pod two to three times as long as the 
calyx. 
On dry banks and in pastures and waste places. Very rare. 
Near Penzance, the Land’s End, and the Lizard Lights, Cornwall; 
Maker Heights and Dartmouth, Devon; plentiful in the Channel 
Islands. 
England. Annual. Summer. 
Extremely like the preceding, of which I suspect it to be no more 
than a variety. It is usually, however, a stouter and larger plant 
(L have seen it in Guernsey with the stems as much as 3 feet 
long), with the flowers usually in pairs or threes, instead of 
solitary, and the pod is shorter and thicker, being from } to ? inch 
long. The beak at the apex of the pod is equally bent down in 
both, and the standard occasionally turns green in both, but most 
frequently retains its yellow colour when dried, so that these two 
characters which have been enumerated as specific differences are 
evidently valueless for separating the two, and I should certainly 
expect to find that continued cultivation would prove their identity. 
Short-podded Small Birds-foot Trefoil. 
French, Lotier Hispide. 
Sus-TrineE V.—ASTRAGALE. 
Stamens diadelphous, the upper one being free from the other 
nine. Pod imperfectly 2-celled, from the presence of a longitu- 
dinal partition proceeding from one or both of the sutures. Stems 
herbaceous or suffruticose, sometimes extremely short. Leaves 
pinnate with an odd terminal leaflet, or, more rarely, with the 
petiole terminating in a spine ; leaflets entire. 
GENUS XT—OXYTROPIS. D.C. 
Calyx bell-shaped or tubular, with 5 teeth, the 2 upper 
somewhat separated from the 3 lower. Corolla with the 
standard scarcely spreading, as long as or longer than the wings 
and keel; keel with an.apiculus or short appendage at the apex. 
Stamens diadelphous. Style ascending. Stigma obtuse or sub- 
capitate. Pod ovoid or subclavate, turgid, more or less completely 
divided into 2 cells by a longitudinal partition, produced by the 
