966 OXYTROPIS. [CLASS XVII, ORDER 111. 
tinent, and in the more elevated alpine situations its ally, the 
Oxytropis uralensis, is found. 
3. A. alpi'nus, Linn. (Fig. 1117.) Alpine Milk-vetch. Stem pro- 
cumbent, and as well as the numerous pairs of ovate elliptic leaflets, 
pubescent ; stipules ovate, free; flowers sub-capitate; wings shorter 
than the keel; legumes oblong, pendulous, clothed with black hairs. 
English Botany, Suppl. t. 2717.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4, 
vol. i. p. 272.—Lindley, Synopsis, Suppl. p. 822.—Phaca astragalina, 
De Cand. 
Root woody, slender, branched, and creeping. Stems several, 
slender, much branched, spreading, smooth below, above clothed with 
close pressed pubescence. eaves alternate, pubescent, the petioles 
from three to four inches long, slender, channeled, leaflets ovate, or 
ovate elliptic, obtuse, sometimes notched at the end, pubescent, 
especially on the under side, from ten to twelve pairs, and a terminal 
odd one, Stipules ovate, sub-acute, free from the petiole, but occa- 
sionally united at the base, veined, smooth on the inner side, 
pubescent on the out. Inflorescence sub-capitate, of about twelve 
flowers, upon axillary peduncles, shorter than the leaves when in 
flower, but elongated when bearing the fruit, stout, angular, pubescent. 
Calyx campanulate, obliquely and unequally five toothed. Corolla 
white, tipped with lilac, the vexillum notched, reflexed, the wings 
linear, spatulate, shorter than the notched keel. /ruit pendulous, 
legumes oblong, inflated, flattened, and somewhat channeled along 
the lower suture, clothed with black hairs, and seldom bearing more 
than two perfect seeds. 
Habitat—Head of the Glen of the Dole, Clova, Scotland.—J/*r. 
Brand, Dr. Greville, and Dr. Graham. 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
The discovery of this pretty little mountain plant as a native of our 
isles is one of great interest, from the circumstance of its being 
found also on the mountains of Siberia, Switzerland, and the Py- 
renees. It is found also on the Rocky Mountains in North America, 
in Lapland, and was even brought by Captain Parry from Melville 
Island. 
GENUS X. OXYT'ROPIS.—DeE Canv. Ovxytropis. 
Nat. Ord. Papiniona'cEx. LINN. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx five toothed. Corolla with a pointed keel. 
Stamen diadelphous. Legumes more or less perfectly two celled, 
formed by the upper suture being turned inwards.—Name from 
ogus, sharp; and veomts, a keel; from the pointed keel of the 
corolla being one of the essential generic characters. 
