ASTRAGALUS. 
A. chrysanthus, attaining a foot and a half or more on Elburs, 
with golden flowers and larger development. 
A. crassicarpus is a prostrate species from dry plains of America, 
with purple spikes of bloom, followed by swollen seed-pods like little 
plums. 
A. cruentiflorus is another thorn-bush from high on Hermon, very 
dense, and shimmering-silver, with tiny flowers tightly gathered in 
heads of scarlet, not projecting beyond such leaves as the plant 
possesses. 
A. Eastwoodiae.—A branched American species, about 4 or 5 inches 
high, with narrow hairless foliage, and flower-stems as long, carrying 
a few stout violet blossoms about three-quarters of an inch in length. 
A. flavescens makes an interesting little bush of 6 inches or a foot, 
all clothed in fulvous-yellow felt, with yellow thorns. (Alps of Lydia 
above Sardis, &c.) 
A. glareosus (A. argophyllus) grows into a dense depressed mat of 
silver-silky foliage, up among which come the slight stems, bearing a 
few narrow blossoms of bright violet. (Central Rockies.) 
A. hololeucus, from the sub-alpine region of Elburs, has flowers of 
pale blue, above a cushion all closely hoary with silver. (A. alyssoeides 
is a replica of this reduced in all its parts.) 
A. hypoglottioeides, with A. striatus, tibetanus, oxyodon, rigidulus, 
confertus, Lessertianus, &c., makes up a race of silvery high-alpine 
tuffets from India and Tibet in the line of A. hypoglottis, which might, 
some of them, prove worthy of introduction. 
A. incanus, a European species from desert places of Southern 
France, Italy, &c., tufted, all closely silvery-white, with racemes or 
loose spikes of bloom that range from white to purple. 
A. kadscharensis belongs to the ruins of an old castle above Tiflis. 
It has short, ascending stems, green and not silky, with large flowers 
of a beautiful bright blue-violet, the stems of the plant being about 
2 or 3 inches long, while the foot-stalk that carries the blossoms is 
some 3 or 4. 
A. lilacinus, from the base of Demavend, is all hoary with close 
silver, very dwarf, not more than 1 or 2 inches, with the stems of the 
flower-heads six or twelve. 
A. macrorrhizus is a humble dense thing, silky at first, and then 
growing greener, perfectly dwarf, with yellow flowers, from hills of 
Eastern Spain. 
A. missouriensis, closely silky, few blossoms, half an inch long, 
violet, in spiky heads. 
A. nummularioeides may be found in dry barren places close to the 
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