LEGUMINIFER. 1D 
Calyx-tube cylindrical-oblong, thickly clothed with black hairs; 
teeth linear-lanceolate, one-third the length of the tube. Corolla 
scarcely twice as long as the calyx. Pods erect, stipitate on a 
carpophore much shorter than the calyx-tube, broadly oval-ovoid, 
abrupt or subcordate at the base, apiculate, faintly channelled at 
the lower suture, which is inflexed and projects inwards in the 
form of an imperfect partition, clothed with white woolly hairs. 
On dry gravelly and chalky pastures. Not very common. 
Principally found in the eastern counties, from Essex and Herts 
to Aberdeen, Moray, and Ross. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Rootstock extensively creeping, very slender, much branched. 
Stems 2 to 8 inches long. Leaves 1 to 3 inches long; leaflets § to 
2 inch long, rounded or notched at the apex, with scattered hairs even 
on the upper surface. Stipules lanceolate, united half-way up 
opposite the leaf so as to form a sheath. Flowers 6 to 20, ? inch 
long, bluish-purple, nearly sessile, in a dense racemose head not 
elongating in fruit; the bracts half as long as the calyx-tube. Pod 
; to g inch long, rupturing the calyx-tube. Seeds roundish-reni- 
form, brownish-black. Plant greyish-green, sparingly clothed with 
white adpressed hairs, the upper part of the peduncles and calyces 
with black ones. 
Purple Milk-Vetch, Tongue-under- Tongue. 
French, Astragale Hypoglotte. German, Wiesen Bérenschote. 
SPECIES III.—ASTRAGALUS GLYCYPHYLLUS. Linn. 
Pirate CCCLXX VII. 
Rootstock thick, woody, slightly branched. Stems elongated, 
stout, ascending or decumbent. Leaves with 4 to 7 pairs of oval 
leaflets, which are glabrous on the upper surface. Stipules not 
sheathing. Peduncles shorter than the leaves. Flowers in short 
compact ovoid racemes or elongated heads, spreading when 
expanded. Bracts rather longer than the pedicels. Calyx-tube 
bell-shaped, glabrous except at the mouth; teeth triangular- 
subulate, half the length of the tube. Corolla more than twice 
the length of the calyx. Pods erect, stipitate on a carpophore 
as long as the calyx-tube, cylindrical, tapering, curved upwards, 
gradually acuminated into a slender beak, deeply channelled at the 
lower suture, which is inflexed and projects inwards in the form 
of an imperfect partition, appearing glabrous to the naked eye. 
In bushy places, woods, thickets, on the borders of fields, and 
ae VL 1A 
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