DIADELPH. Hfi-XAND. 



Cal. 5-cleft, its divisions linear. Standard stria- 

 ted. Legume turgid, sessile. Filaments in one undivided set. 



"** Stum, diadelphous, 9 united and 1 free. 

 f Style more or less pubescent beneath the stigma. 

 7. OROBUS. Style linear, cylindrical, downy above, Cal. ob- 

 tuse at the base, its upper segments deeper and shorter. 

 S. LATHYRUS. Style plane, downy above, broader upwards. 

 Cal. with its two upper segments shortest. 



9. Vic i A. Style bearded beneath the stigma. 



10. ERVUM. Stigma capitate, hairy all over on the outside. 



ft Style glabrous. 



4- Legume of 2 longitudinal cells, more or less complete. 

 13. ASTRAGALUS. Legume 2-celled, more or less gibbous. 

 4-4- Legume more or less jointed. 



11. ORNiT&oPtJs. Legume jointed, curved, cylindrical. 



12. HIPPOCREPIS. Legume compressed snbmembranaceous, 

 with many deep notches in one of its edges. 



-f-4-4- Legume of one cell, one- or mamj-seeded (not jointed}. 



16. MEDICAGO. Legume falcate or spirally twisted, compress- 

 ed, membranaceous a . 



14 TRIFOLIUM. Legume (in general) shorter than the cal., I- or 

 many-seeded, indehiscent, deciduous. Flowers more or less 

 capitate (in Tr. offic. racemose). 



15. LOTUS. Legume cylindrical, straight. Wings of the cor. 

 cohering by their upper edge. Filaments dilated upwards. 



1. HEXANDRIA. 



1, FUMARIA. 



* Caps, spherical, I -seeded (Fumaria). 



1. F. qfficinalis (common Fumitory), spike lax, stem branched 

 spreading, leaves bipinnate leaflets almost linear. Light/, 

 p. 379. .E. B.t.589. 



HAB. Corn-fields and gardens, frequent. Fl. May Aug. Q . 

 One foot high, rather glaucous. Spikes of flowers rose coloured, 

 deeper at the extremity of the cor., inserted opposite the leaves. 



2. F. capreolata (ramping Fumitory), spike lax, stem climbing 

 by means of the tendril-like petioles, leaves triternate leaflets 

 obovato-cuneiform cut and lobed. Lightf. p. 380. E. B. 

 t. 943. 



8 Sir James Smith places this in the previous division, " Legwmcn sul- 

 articuMum ;" but I think it conies better in this. 



