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leaflets usually 10-12 pairs, with an odd one ; flowers bluish- 

 purple, in short spikes, on long axillary peduncles ; calyx erect, 

 downy, with short black hairs ; pod ovoid, hairy. Dry hilly 

 pastures. Fl. June, July. 



** Flowers dull yellow. 



A. glycyphyllos : glabrous ; stems zigzag, spreading along 

 the ground to the length of two feet or more ; stipules free ; 

 leaflets in 56 pairs, ovate ; flowers dingy yellow, in racemes 

 rather shorter than the leaves; pods erect, curved, glabrous. 

 Dry, open woods, and bushy places. Fl. June. 



(79) Oxytropis. 



* Flowers yellow. 



O. campestris : stem short, tufted, scarcely lengthening 

 into shortly ascending branches; leaflets 10-15 pairs, with an 

 odd one, oblong or lanceolate, hairy ; flowers in short spikes, 

 pale yellow tinged with purple ; calyx hairy ; pod erect, ovoid, 

 covered with short, usually black, hairs. Clova mountains, 

 rare. Fl. July. 



** Floivers purple. 



O. uralensis : stem short ; the foliage, inflorescence, and 

 pod as in the last, but more densely covered with soft, silky 

 hairs ; flowers bright purple. Dry hilly pastures in Scotland. 

 Fl. July. 



(80) OnobrycMs. SAINTFOIN. 



O. sativa : stems ascending, 1-2 feet long ; stipules brown, 

 finely pointed ; leaflets numerous, oblong, glabrous above ; 

 peduncles longer than the leaves, bearing a spike of pale pink 

 flowers, at first closely packed, but afterwards lengthening 



