22 L eguminosce A nthyllis. 



TRIBE T^. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves pinnately divided ; leaflets 



3 or more, entire. Flowers capitate or umbellate. Upper 

 stamen free, or not ; alternate filaments often dilated. 



11. ANTHtLLIS. 



Trailing herbs or shrubs. Flowers usually capitate, yellow j 

 white, purple, or red. Calyx tubular or inflated, including the 

 1- or few-seeded pod. Stamens usually monadelphous. About 

 twenty species are known, chiefly from the countries bordering 

 the Mediterranean Sea. The Greek name. 



1. A. Bdrba-Jovia. Jupiter's Beard. A tender evergreen 

 shrub about 3 feet high with pinnate leaves and yellow flowers. 

 A handsome silvery shrub rare in cultivation, and requiring 

 protection in very severe weather. 



2. A. Vulneraria. Woundwort. An indigenous herbaceous 

 trailing species. Leaves and stems clothed with silky hairs. 

 Leaflets 3 to 7, linear-oblong. Flowers capitate, varying in 

 colour from white and cream to purple and crimson. 



12. LOTUS. 



Procumbent herbs or undershrubs. Leaflets 4 or 5. Flowers 

 umbellate on axillary peduncles. Calyx-lobes often longer than 

 the tube. Keel beaked. Upper stamens free. Pod oblong or 

 linear, terete, turgid or flat. Of the fifty or more species 

 there are only a few worthy of cultivation. 



1. L. corniculatus. Bird's-foot Trefoil. Some of the varieties 

 of this very common native plant are very pretty for covering 

 rock-work, &c., especially the double-flowered variety. L. 

 Jacobceus is the dark-purple-flowered species, formerly more 

 cultivated than at present. It is a native of the Cape de 

 Verde Islands, and therefore too tender to withstand our 

 winters ; but it may be treated as an annual. L. Gebelia, 

 a taller growing species, growing in dense tufts, with glabrous 

 and glaucescent foliage and rosy-carmine flowers. Native of 

 Syria. L. purpureus and siliquosus ( Tetragonolobus) are re- 

 markable for their ample foliage, purple and yellow flowers, and 



4 -winged pods. 



