78 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
On dry commons, by roadsides, and in waste places. Not un- 
common in England; rare in Scotland, where it extends northward 
to the counties of Moray and Dumbarton. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring and Summer. 
Root producing from its crown numerous stems, which are 
decumbent or procumbent, very slender, nearly simple. Leaves 1 
to 2 inches long, only the lower ones stalked; leaflets elliptical or 
oval, } to + inch long; those of the lower leaves sometimes obtuse 
or emarginate, those of the upper acute. Stipules very small, tri- 
angular. Peduncles filiform, about as long as the leaves. Flowers 
4 inch long. Calyx-tube cylindrical-funnel-shaped; teeth short, 
triangular. Standard and wings white with red lines; keel orange. 
Pods not diverging, 4 to ? inch long, curved upwards into a bow, 
breaking into 5 to 9 indehiscent 1-seeded oval joints. Plant grey- 
ish-green, with the upper part of the stem, leaves, calyces, and pods 
clothed with short hairs. 
Least Bird’s-Foot. 
French, Ornithope Délicat. German, Kleine Klauenschote. 
SuB-Grenus II.—ARTHROLOBIUM. JDesv. 
Pod scarcely compressed, very slightly constricted between the 
joints, which are sub-cylindrical. 
SPECIES IL—ORNITHOPUS EBRACTEATUS. Brotero. 
PuLate CCCLXXIX. 
Gr. & Godr, Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 498. 
Arthrolobium ebracteatum, D.C, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 87. Benth. Handbook 
Brit. Fl. p. 174. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 110. 
Leaves almost all stalked; leaflets 3 to 8 pairs, sub-glabrous. 
Flower-heads 2- to 5-flowered, without a bract at the base. Calyx- 
tube glabrous, five or six times as long as the teeth. Pod glabrous, 
cylindrical, not constricted between the joints, gradually attenuated 
into asubulate seminiferous beak longer than the last joint, without 
a raised line or prominent veins, rough with minute tubercles. 
In sandy places. Very rare, and only known to occur in the 
Scilly Islands. It is also found in Alderney and Guernsey. 
England. Annual. Spring to Autumn. 
Root producing from its crown numerous slender ascending or 
decumbent nearly simple stems, 4 to 20 inches long. Leaves 1 to 
