34 Mr. Lowe on the New Plants and Land Mollusca 



ob-tusiusculis, sub-puberulis : stipulis parvis, angustissimis, semi-sagittatis, 

 superioribus simplicibus: pedunculis sub-bifloris, folio multum brevio- 

 ribus : calyce leguminibusque latis, oblongis, compressis, 3 — 6-spermis, 

 villosis. 



Vicia gracilis, Sol. MSS. et Herb. Banks! non Lois/. 



Hab. in Madera; Sol. et Mass. 



Foliola sub-octoparia. Flores perparvi, purpurascentes. 



Gen. ONONIS, Linn., D. C. 



59. Ononis dentata, Sol. MSS.— Tab. 4. 



O. herbacea, annua, erecta, pilosa : foliis (omnibus) trifoliolatis ; fo- 

 liolis obovatis, serratis : stipulis ovatis, dentatis : floribus sparsis, soli- 

 tariis, axillaribus, pedunculatis, folio longioribus, cernuis: pedunculis 

 muticis: corolla calycem superante: laciniis calycinis 4 supremis antice 

 dilatatis, foliaceis (3-) dentatis; infima simplici lineari-acuminata, in- 

 tegerrima ; leguininibus calyce longioribus. 



Ononis dentata, Sol. MSS! et Herb. Banks, quoad specimina 3 in 



Insulis Canariis A. D. 1778 a cl. Masson lecta! 



Hab. in Portu S'". " Insula? Canada? Fr. Masson 1778," Herb. 

 Banks: In apricis Nivaria?, P. B. Webb, arm. 



Flores conspicui ; in plantis ab amico Rev. M- J. Berkeley in 

 Anglia cultis (a seminibus quae in Insula Portus S". mense Maii, A. D 

 1828, ipse legi) vexillo roseo-purpureo, alis et carina pallidioribus ; in 

 aliis (desiccatis) ab amico P. B. Webb arm. in Nivaria lectis, pallide 

 flavi, carina purpurea. 



Gen. ASTRAGALUS, DC. 



Series II. OCHROLEUCI, 

 §. 7. » Bucerates, D. C. Prodr. 



60. Astragalus canescens, Sol. MSS. 



A. villoso-pubescens, adscendens : caulibus diffusis, adscendentibus : 

 foliolis multijugis, ovalibus vel oblongo-ellipticis, retusiusculis, supra 



