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17 A. GARBANCILLO (Cav. icon. 1. t. 85.) plant erect, suf- 

 fruticose, and rather villous ; stipulas concrete, opposite the 

 leaves; leaflets 10-12 pairs, oblong, obtuse; racemes peduncu- 

 late, longer than the leaves ; legumes inflated, pilose. l-> . S. 

 Native of Peru, in the valley of Canta. Flowers pale violet. The 

 plant is said to be noxious to cattle. Garbancillo is the verna- 

 cular name of the plant in Peru. Calyx covered with black hairs. 



Garbancillo Milk- Vetch. Shrub 1| foot. 



18 A. DONIA'NBS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 283.) plant prostrate, 

 beset with a few scattered adpressed hairs; leaves with 8-10 

 pairs of oval, alternate, mucronulate leaflets, which are pubes- 

 cent beneath, but when young silky ; stipulas connate ; pedun- 

 cles axillary, few-flowered, twice the length of the leaves ; 

 legumes subulate, silky. I/ . H. Native of Nipaul, in Gosaing- 

 sthan. Flowers purple, having a broad vexillum. Root long, 

 thick, and woody, dividing into many arms at the base. A. 

 macrorhizus, D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 245. 



Don's Milk- Vetch. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1818. PI. pr. 



19 A. ARENA'RIUS (Lin. spec. 1069.) plant diffuse, tomen- 

 tose from white adpressed down ; stipulas concrete, opposite 

 the leaves ; leaflets linear-obtuse ; peduncles few-flowered, rather 

 shorter than the leaves ; legumes stipitate, rather tumid, tomen- 

 tose, thrice the length of the breadth. I/. H. Native of Den- 

 mark and Sweden, in sandy places. Retz. obs. 2. no. 73. p. 3. 

 t. 3. D. C. astr. no. 1. Corolla blue. The stems are erect, 

 according to Retzius, but according to Willdenow and Linnaeus 

 they are prostrate. Root creeping. 



Sand Milk- Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1800. PI. | foot. 



20 A. BAYONNE'NSIS (Lois. fl. gall. 247.) plant diffusely- 

 procumbent, somewhat tomentose from white, adpressed down ; 

 stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; peduncles 4-6-flowered, 

 about equal in length to the leaves ; legumes almost sessile, 

 rather tumid, tomentose, twice the length of the breadth. If.. H. 

 Native of the west of France, in sand by the sea-coast, at 

 Bayonne. D. C. fl. fr. suppl. 573. A. Austriacus, Thore, but 

 not of Lin. Flowers bluish-purple. 



Bayonne Milk- Vetch. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1816. PI. pr. 



21 A. VERRUCOSUS (Moris, clench, sard. p. 12.) plant pilose 

 and decumbent ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves, lanceo- 

 late-subulate ; leaves with 10-12 pairs of ovate-oblong leaflets ; 

 racemes longer than the leaves, many-flowered ; legumes arched, 

 oblong, acuminated, rather mucronulate, pilose. Q. H. Native 

 of Sardinia. Flowers purple. 



JVarted-podded. Milk- Vetch. PI. decumbent. 



22 A. MACROPTERUS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 283.) plant erect and 

 smoothish ; young stipulas concrete and opposite the leaves, 

 but at length becoming free ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acute ; 

 peduncles 2 or 3 times the length of the leaves ; flowers nod- 

 ding, disposed in interrupted spikes ; wings much longer than 

 the keel, and about equal in length to the vexillum ; legumes 

 oval-linear, straight, glabrous, apiculated by the style, hardly 

 double the length of the calyx. 11 . H. Native of Dahuria and 

 Siberia. Astragalus and Oxytropis macroptera, Fisch. in litt. but 

 there is no mucrone on the keel to be seen. Flowers purple. 



Long-winged Milk- Vetch. PI. 1 foot. 



23 A. VAGINA'TUS (Pall. astr. no. 49. t. 36.) plant erect, pu- 

 bescent ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; leaflets linear- 

 lanceolate, acute ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; flowers 

 drooping, disposed in dense spikes ; legumes linear, straight. 

 If. . H . Native of Siberia, at the Uba, Jenesee, and Baikal. 

 Flowers of a whitish-purple colour, or white and purple mixed. 

 This species is very nearly allied to A. versicolor, and probably 

 only the same. The plant is also a native of North America. 



Shectthed-stipuled Milk- Vetch. PI. 1 foot. 



24 A. VERSICOLOR (Pall, astr no. 48. t. 35.) plant erect and 

 glabrous ; stipulas concrete, opposite the leaves ; leaflets linear, 



acute ; peduncles bearing a crowded spike of flowers each, 

 which is longer than the leaves ; flowers drooping ; legumes 

 triquetrous, erect, glabrous. ~lj . H. Native of eastern Si- 

 beria, on rocks. Flowers pale-blue at first, but at length chang- 

 ing to a deeper blue. It is probably not distinct from A. va- 

 ginatus. 



Party-coloured-fiowered Milk-Vetch. PI. -| to 1 foot. 



25 A. TAU'RICUS (Pall. astr. no. 51. t. 38. exclusive of the 

 synonymes) plant spreading and tufted, clothed with adpressed 

 silky down ; leaflets linear, acute ; stipulas membranous, con- 

 crete, opposite the leaves ; peduncles spicate, thrice the length 

 of the leaves ; legumes ovate, acute, 2-4-seeded. If. . H. Na- 

 tive of Tauria, in gravelly or chalky places. Flowers purple, 

 varying to white, ex Bieb. taur. 2. p. 192. Oxytropis Tauri- 

 cus, Pers. ench. exclusive of the synonymes. A. cretaceus, 

 Pall. ined. taur. 



Taurian Milk- Vetch. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1826. PI. to J ft. 



2. Dissitiflori (from dissitus, distant, andflos, a flower ; in re- 

 ference to the flowers being distant in the racemes). D. C. prod. 

 2. p. 284. Stimulus distinct, not adhering to the petiole. Flowers 

 purplish or white, distant in the racemes. Legumes straight. 



26 A. AUSTRIA ACUS (Lin. spec. 1070.) plant diffusely pro- 

 cumbent ; leaflets glabrous, linear, truncately-emarginate ; ra- 

 cemes pedunculate, longer than the leaves ; wings of corolla 

 bifid ; legumes somewhat triquetrous, pendulous. 7 . H. Na- 

 tive of Spain, Dauphiny, Austria, Italy, Tauria, in dry exposed 

 places, and of Russia, on the banks of the Volga. Jacq. austr. 

 195. Vind. 263. D. C. astr. no. 1. A. dichopterus, Pall, 

 astr. t. 39. Allied to Oxytropis dichoplera. Flowers with a 

 blue vexillum, but the rest purple. 



Austrian Milk-Vetch. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1640. PI. diff". 



27 A. OLO'PTERUS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 284.) plant diffuse; 

 leaves with 6-7 pairs of linear, glabrous, entire, acutish leaf- 

 lets ; racemes pedunculate, twice or thrice the length of the 

 leaves; wings of corolla obtuse. 1. H. Native of the Al- 

 taian mountains, and in the Kirghisean steppe. A. Austriacus, 

 Fish, in litt. The plant is very like the A, Austriacus, but 

 differs in the wings of the corolla being entire ; also like 

 A. melilototdes, but differs from it in the leaves having many 

 pairs of leaflets. The flowers are pale, according to the dried 

 specimen. 



Entire-winged Milk- Vetch. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1817. PI. diff'. 



28 A. MELILOTOIDES (Pall. itin. ed. gall. t. 33. f. 1. and 2. 

 astr. t. 41.) plant erect, glabrous ; leaflets 5, oblong, emarginate ; 

 racemes pedunculate, thrice the length of the leaves : wings of 

 corolla entire ; legumes erect, ovate, didymous, 2-seeded, 

 wrinkled. TJ. . H. Native of Siberia, Altaia, Dahuria, and 

 China. D. C. astr. no. 37. Flowers purple. 



Melilot-like Milk- Vetch. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 



29 A. SULCA'TUS (Lin. spec. 1065.) plant erect, glabrous ; 

 stem furrowed ; leaflets linear-lanceolate ; racemes pedunculate, 

 longer than the leaves ; wings of corolla entire ; legumes erect, 

 rather triquetrous, half bilocular. I/ . H. Native of Siberia, 

 in grassy places, and the Tartarian desert. Jacq. hort. vind. t. 

 40. D. C. astr.no. 35. Tium lineure, Moench. A. leptostachys, 

 Pall. astr. t. 40. but not of Willd. Flowers pale-violet but with 

 a white keel, tipped with brown. 



Furromed-stemmed Milk- Vetch. Fl. July. Clt. 1783. PI. 

 2 to 3 feet. 



30 A. CRA'CCA (D. C. astr. no. 2. t. 9.) plant diffuse ; leaflets 

 oval- oblong, emarginate, pubescent ; racemes pedunculate, about 

 equal in length to the leaves ; wings of corolla entire ; legumes 

 pendulous, stipitate, ovate-oblung, compressed, half-bilocular. 

 i; . G. Native of Peru. 



