74. ENGLISH BOTANY. 
leaflets, which are sub-glabrous on the upper surface. Stipules 
sheathing. Peduncles shorter than or equal to the leaves when in 
flower. lowers in a lax depressed-globular head, spreading when 
expanded. LBracts about as long as the pedicels. Calyx-tube cam- 
panulate, thickly clothed with black adpressed hairs ; teeth trian- 
gular, more than half the length of the tube. Corolla three times 
as long as the calyx. Pods reflexed, stipitate on a carpophore 
about as long as the calyx-tube, fusiform-ovoid, attenuated at each 
end, deeply channelled on the lower suture which is inflexed and 
projects inwards in the form of an imperfect partition, clothed with 
short black bristly hairs. 
On a grassy knoll at Little Cragindal, near the Castleton of 
Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; and at the head of Glen Dole, Clova, 
Forfarshire. 
Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock very slender, much branched ; branches terminating 
in short leafy stems. Leaves 2 to 5 inches long; leaflets + to 
> inch long, entire or slightly notched at the apex, with short white 
adpressed hairs on the underside and margins. Stipules rhomboid- 
ovate, apiculate, united at the base so as to form a kind of sheath. 
Peduncles axillary. Flowers # inch long, in a very short capitate 
raceme, whitish tinged with lilac at the apex; the keel purple at 
the point. Pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube. Bracts mem- 
branous, scarcely exceeding the pedicels. Calyx-tube with the 
mouth oblique, the lower portion projecting beyond the upper, not 
ruptured by the fruit. Keel much curved upwards. Pods pen- 
dulous, straight, 4 to 3 inch long, inflated, olive, thickly clothed 
with short black bristly hairs, on a stalk as long as the calyx-tube, 
and with a slender beak at the apex about as long as the stalk. 
Seeds reniform, brown. Plant pale pea-green, slightly glaucous, 
rather sparingly clothed with white adpressed hairs except on the 
upuer portion of the peduncles, calyces, and pods, where they are 
ack. 
Alpine Milk-Vetch. 
SPECIES I1—ASTRAGALUS HYPOGLOTTIS. Zinn. 
Puate CCCLX XVI. 
Rootstock slender, creeping, much branched. Stems short, 
slender, decumbent. Leaves with 7 to 15 pair of elliptical leaflets, 
which are hairy on the upper surface. Stipules sheathing. Pe- 
duncles longer than the leaves. Flowers in dense ovoid-globular 
heads, erect when expanded. Bracts poyger Ahan the pedicels. 
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