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This is a very charming plant., clothed with a beautiful silky pubes- 

 cence, especially on the young leaves. Leaflets 8 12 pairs, with 

 an odd one, narrow, ovate, acute. Scape 4 to 6 inches high when 

 in fruit. Flowers capitate, large, bright purple. 



2. A. campestris (yellowish Mountain Milk Fetch), somewhat 

 silky stemless, scape about the same length as the leaves, le- 

 gumes erect ovate inflated pubescent semibilocular. E. B. 

 #.2522. 



HAB. On a rock on one of the mountains at the head of Clova, near 



the White Water, G. Don. Ft. July. 3/ . 

 Leaflets elliptical-lanceolate. Flowers capitate, yellowish, tinged with 



purple. 



** Keel of the Cor. obtuse. Legume with the lower suture having its 

 margins introflexed (Astragalus, Decand.). 



3. A. hypoglottis (purple Mountain Milk-Fetch), stem pro- 

 strate, leaflets slightly emarginate, legumes erect capitate hairy 

 their cells 1 -seeded. Lightf. p. 400 (A. arenarius). . L'. 

 f.274. 



HAB. Hilly pastures. King's Park, Edinb. j Sands, Musselburgh 5 

 Hill of Moncrief, near Perth -, and in dry ground near York Cas- 

 cade, at the Duke of Athol's, Blair, Lightf. Coast near Granton, 

 Edinb., plentifully, Maugh. Banks of the Tay, nearDelvine, Perth- 

 shire j and Links of St. Fergus, Mr. Murray. Hill of Kinnoul,by 

 Perth, Mr. Borrer an<J Hook. Fl. July. 3/ . 



Stem weak, a few inches in length. Lea/lets elliptico-ovate,, retuse, 

 hairy. Peduncles longer than the leaves, curved upwards. Heads 

 oi flowers large, blueish purple. Legumes ovate, acuminate, hairy. 

 4. A. g^ycyphyllos (sweet Milk- Fetch), stem prostrate, legumes 

 somewhat triangular curved sessile glabrous, leaves longer 

 than the peduncles, leaflets oval. Lightf p. 399. JE. B. 

 t. 203. 



HAB. Woods, but not common. Coryton woods, near Edinb., Dr. 

 Parsons. Banks of the Water of Leith, between Coltbridge and 

 Saughtonhall - t many places on the coast between Nether Cramond 

 and Queensferry, Maugh. Fl. July. I/ . 



Readily distinguished by its great size. Stem prostrate, 2 3 feet 

 long. Leaves with large, ovate, acute stipules. Flowers dingy yel- 

 low. Legumes an inch or more long, curved. 



14. TRIFOLIUM. 



* Flowers racemose (Melilotus, Decand.}. 

 1 . Tr. officinale (common Melilot), legumes racemed naked 2- 



seeded rugged, stipules lanceolato-subulate undivided; leaflets 



obovato-oblong toothed^ stem erect. Lightf. p. 402. E. B. 



t. 1340. 



HAB. Bushy places and by way-sides. Fl. July. Q. 

 Stem 2 3 feet high. Flowers in pedunculated, axillary racemes, se- 



cund, yellow. 



