no AS 
“radix multiceps’ and many buds on the lower parts. 
Forms small tufts, up to 25 cm in diameter, often dying 
away in the centre. The leaves which have the same size 
on the top and bottom of the stem (a “protohemicrypto- 
phyte”) are oblong-lanceolate, densely hairy, turned-upwards, 
about 2 cm long. Flowers, white, with red-striped glandular- 
hairy calyx, about 15 cm above the ground. 
Oxytropis bella B. Fedtsch. A hemicryptophytic rosette 
(Fot. by O. OLUFSEN.) 
Fig. 13. 
A big tuft of Trigonella Emodi Benth. on the plain at Mardjanaj. 
plant, forming small tufts 10—20 cm in diameter. (Circum- 
ference 40—50 cm). Leaves pinnate, almost vertical, 2—3 
cm long, have 4—5 pairs of silvery-hairy, lanceolate leaflets 
about 7 mm long Flowers, violet, growing 6—8 cm above 
the surface of the ground. (Fig. 12). 
Trigonella Emodi Benth. A hemicryptophyte forming large 
tufts, up to 1 métre in diameter, on a single thick root. In 
many cases the entire centre of the tuft is dead and only a 
circle, 10—15 cm wide, living. Leaves, ternate, with movable 
leaflets hardly a centimetre long, dentate at the tip, smooth, 
but with glands secreting an odorous substance. Flowers, 
