DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. ,^g 



ORNITHOPUS. Ga1.pf.SH4, 

 Legunun articulatum, teres, arcuatum. 

 perptiftllus ORNITHOPUS foliis pinnatis, leguminibus fub- 

 arcuatis. 8p. pL 1049. {Ger. e.ni. 1241. /. 3. 

 Moris, hijl. f. z. /. 10./. ij.) 

 Bird's-foot. Anglis. 



In gravelly or Tandy grounds, but not common- 

 Mr. Stuart oblerved it about Comrie, a village 

 tour miles from Crieff m Stralh-Ernt. o. VL 



vir. 



The flalks are fix or eight inches high, and lie 

 proflrate upon the ground : the leaves have about 

 15 pair of very Imall, oval, fofr, hairy, and 

 nearly equal -pinrnf., with an odd one at the end : 

 the peduncles arife from the aU of the leaves, 

 and bear a kind of half-umbel, confining of 

 three or four fmall yellow fiowers, the vexuhm 

 tinged with red : the pods are Oightly hairy, 

 curved, jointed with fix or eight articulations, 

 and terminated with a claw, fo that altogcther 

 they not unaptly reprefent a bird's foot. Each 

 vjint contains a finglc feed. 



ASTRAGALUS. Gen. pi 892. 

 Legumen biloculare, gib bum. 

 * Caulihus foliofis diffufts. 

 glycyphillos ASTRAGALUS caulefcens proftratus, legumini- 

 ], bus fubtriquetris arcuatis, foliolis cvalibus pe- 



dunculo longiorlbus. Sp. pi. 1067. {Ger. em. 



