160 BRITISH BOTANY. 



On heaths, sea-coasts, etc. Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. Per- 

 ennial; June, July. 



A. alpinuS) L. Alpine Milk-vetch. — e.b.s. 2717. l.b.s. 288. 

 A. 1. C. 2. Lat. 56-58°. Alt. 800-900 yds. Tern. 38-37°. 



Stem slender, clothed with soft hairs, 6-12 inches long, pros- 

 trate, elongate. Leaves with 10-12 pairs of hairy, ovate or ellip- 

 tical, blunt leaflets; stipules ovate, pointed, free (or sometimes 

 slightly combined) . Peduncles as long as the leaves. Flowers 

 few, white with purple tips, in capitate spikes (dense clusters). 

 Legumes oblong, tapering at both ends, stalked, pendulous ?, en- 

 veloped in the calyx ?, covered with blacji hairs when young. 



On mountains in Clova and Braemar. Perennial ; July. 



OxYTROPis, DC. — Leaves radical (in the Br. species) ; leaflets 

 numerous, with an odd terminal one. Calyx in 5 divisions. 

 Keel of the corolla apiculate (having a narrow point) . Legume 

 incompletely 2-celled (the cells are formed by the inflexed mar- 

 gin of the upper suture) . 



O. campestris, DC. Yellowish Mountain Oxyti'opis. — e.b. 

 2522. L.B.S. 290. 



A. 1. C. 1. Lat. 56-57°. Alt. 700 yds. Tem. 41-40°. 



Stem short, procumbent (root producing a tuft of leaves and 

 one or two flowering-stalks (scapes) ). Leaves with 10-15 pairs of 

 ovate or lanceolate leaflets. Flowers 6-10, in a short, roundish 

 or ovate cluster. Calyx tubular, with linear teeth, covered with 

 appressed yellow hairs. Legume ovate, apiculate. Seeds reni- 

 form. / 



f^'^ Caithness, discovered by Mr. R. Dick. Clova Mountains. 

 ^ Perennial ; July. The range of this plant must be extended. . 



O. uralensisy DC. — 0. Halleri, Bunge. Hairy Mountain Oxy- 

 tropis. — E.B. 466. l.b.s. 289. 



A. 4. C. 6. Lat. 54-59°. Alt. 0-? Tem. 48-45°. 



Root woody. Leaves radical, stalked, with scarious adnate 

 stipules. Leaflets ovate, acute, 8-12 pairs, Avhitish and silky on 

 both sides. Flowers on erect, radical peduncles, Avhich are longer 

 than the leaves ; the whole herbage is remarkably silky. Flow- 

 ers bracteate, solitary, of a rich bluish-purple. Calyx tubular, 

 densely hairy, with short, blunt teeth. Legume ovate-oblong, 

 pointed, with a membranous partition, crowned with the perma- 

 nent style. 



Mountains in Scotland, on a sandy soil. Perennial ; July. 



