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19. GLYCYRRHIZA Linn. Licorice. 



Herbs, with thick, sweet roots, odd-pinnate leaves, and spicate or capi- 

 tett flowers. Standard narrow, short-clawed ; keel shorter than the wings. 

 Stamens diadelphous, i and 9, anthers alternately large and small. Le- 

 gume sessile, prickly or glandular, continuous between the few seeds. 

 (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iii, 3, p. 300, E, F.) 



Species 15, N. Temperate; S. Amer. and Australia. 



G. ASTRAGALINA Gill. & Hook. 



Glabrous, but glandular. Root and stock creeping. Leaflets, 4-5 pairs, 

 linear-oblong, retuse, mucronate. Spikes lax, axillary, on peduncles 

 exceeding the leaves. Flowers blue. Legume moniliform, glabrous. 



(Chili, whence it descends along the river valleys); Patagonia, Irom 

 Bahia Blanca to Magellan. N. Patagon., at confluence of RR. Limay 

 and Neuquen ; at Carmen de Patagones ; along Rio Chubut. Leaves 

 obovate, spikes equalling the leaves. (Speg.) 



The root tastes as licorice. "A decoction of the resinous leaves is 

 administered to women after child-birth." " Curuzu ; Milpi." 



20. PATAGONIUM Schrank (Adesmia DC.). 



Herbs or undershrubs, mostly unarmed, with odd- or even-pinnate, 

 sometimes 2-3-foliolate, exstipellate leaves, and yellow, or red-striate 

 flowers, solitary or in terminal or axillary 

 racemes. Bracts small ; no bractlets. (Fig. 



75-) 



Calyx-lobes subequal, or the lowest slightly 

 longer ; standard orbiculate, keel slightly 

 shorter. Stamens free, but the two upper 

 filaments often broad-based, and united to 

 the standard. Ovary sessile ; stigma small, 

 terminal. Legume with straight upper suture, 

 and sinuate lower. Seeds 2-several. 



Species 90, in S. America, chiefly Andean ; 



7 J 



numerous in Patagonia though characteristic of 

 a warm and dry climate. 



(As the generic name has been only recently resurrected, most of the 



FIG. 75.- 



Patagonium.c, c, p. camosum, 

 flowerin fl g shoot ^ d f '^ *' P ' 



negen, flower. (After Dusen. ) 



