CLASS XVI. ORDER I11.] OXYTROPIS. 957 
1. O. Uralen'sis, De Cand. (Fig. 1118.) Hairy Mountain Oxytropis- 
Stemless, silky; leaves with numerous pairs of oblong lanceolate 
leaflets; scape longer than the leaves, hairy, as well as the calyx ; 
flowers in an ovate head; bracteas lanceolate, as long as the calyx ; 
legumes erect, ovate, acuminate, cylindrical, inflated, pubescent, two 
celled. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 173.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
79.—Astragalus uralensis— English Botany, t. 466.—English Flora, 
vol. iii. p. 295. 
foot somewhat woody. The whole plant, and especially the young 
leaves, clothed with soft shining pubescence. Stem wanting. Leaves 
all radical, the petiole from three to five inches long, channeled, and 
bearing at its base a pair of oblong lanceolate stipules, veimy and 
Eh cas leaflets in numerous pairs, oblong, lanceolate. Scape 
rather longer than the leaves, somewhat angular and hairy, bearing a 
terminal sub-racemose ovate head, of bright purple flowers. Calyx 
tubular, clothed with black and white hairs, the teeth linear, obtuse, 
the bractea lanceolate, membranous, hairy, about as long as the calyx, 
its mid-rib prominent. Corolla with the keel elongated into a point, 
shorter than the obliquely obtuse wings and notched spreading 
vexillum. JZegume cylindrical, ovate, inflated, acutely pointed, and 
terminated with the persistent style, clothed with pubescence, two 
celled. 
Habitat—Dry mountain pastures in Scotland; Queen’s Ferry, 
Montrose, Mull of Galloway ; frequent on the coast of Sutherland. 
Perennial: flowering in June and July. 
The beautiful bright purple heads of flowers render this a valuable 
plant in ornamental rock work; but it requires a dry sandy exposed 
situation to produce them ; for if grown in a moist one its colours are 
far less brilliant. 
2. O. campes'tris, De Cand. (Fig. 1119.) Yellow Mountain Oay- 
tropis. Stemless, leaves with numerous pairs of lanceolate leaflets ; 
scape about as long as the leaves, and as well as the calyx clothed 
with erect hairs; flowers erect, in an ovate head; bracteas lanceolate, 
shorter than the calyx; legume erect, ovate, inflated, pubescent, half 
two celled. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 273.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
79 —Astragalus campestris—English Botany, t. 2522.—Hnglish 
Flora, vol. iii. p. 296. 
foot somewhat woody. The whole plant sparingly scattered over 
with silky hairs. Stem wanting. eaves all radical, the petiole about 
six inches long, channeled and hairy, and bearing a pair of ovate 
lanceolate membranous hairy stipules at the base, leaflets in numerous 
pairs of narrow lanceolate leaflets, sparingly hairy, often smooth. 
Scape about as long as the leaves, somewhat angular and hairy, 
