DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 4c5i 



three to fix inches high, procumbent at the bafe ; 

 the leaves have ten or twelve pair of fmall, hairy, 

 elliptical pinna, with an odd one at the end : the 

 peduncle is longer than the leaves, and bears at 

 the top a clurter of about fix purple flowers: 

 the calyces are covered with black hairs : the pods 

 are fhort, oval, inflated, hoary, and white with 

 woolly hairs. 



** Scapo nudo, ahfq^ue caule foliofs. 



A. acaulis, fcapo ere<5to foliis longiore, legumini- 

 bus fubulatis inflatis villofis ere6lis. Sp. pi. 1071. 

 {Haller. cpufc. t. 2. fig. media. HiJl.Jlirp. Hemt, 

 n. 410. /. i^.fig, infer, adjinijiram. ^ fig- ncfi.) 



Silken Aftragalus. Jnglis. 



Upon Carn-dearg, one of the lower heads of Ben- 

 Sguilert, a high mountain in Glen-creran, in Up- 

 per-Lorn, growing together with plenty of the 

 DRY AS 0^0-pelala, in a light fandy foil : found 

 there by my ingenious friend iVIr. Stuart. 



It has alio been difcovered at the bay of Farr, on 

 the eafl:ern coall, and in a rocky foil at Cro- 

 niarty, by Mr. Rohertfon. See Scotch magazine 

 for July 1768, with a figure of it. %. VII. 



The root is long and woody : the ftalk is five or 

 fix inches high, deftitute of leaves, foft and 

 downy : the leaves are all radical, and confifb 

 each of ten or twelve pair of oval-acute pinnae, 

 covered v/ith a white filky down : the flowers are 

 of a pnle violet color, and grow eight or ten to- 

 D d gether 



