70 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Stems moderately stout. Flowers usually in pairs, or three 

 together. Wings tai)ering to the apex in the last quarter of their 

 length. Beak of the keel forming a little more than a right angle 

 with the hasal portion. Pod two to three times as long as the 

 calyx. 



On dry banks and in pastures and waste places. Very rare. 

 Near Penzance, the Land's End, and the Lizard Lights, Cornwall ; 

 Maker Heights and Dartmouth, Devon ; plentiful in the Channel 

 Islands. 



England. Annual. Summer. 



Extremely like the preceding, of which I suspect it to be no more 

 tlian a variety. It is usually, however, a stouter and larger plant 

 (I have seen it in Guernsey with the stems as much as 3 feet 

 long), with the flowers usually in pairs or threes, instead of 

 solitary, and the pod is shorter and thicker, being from ^ to f inch 

 long. The beak at the apex of the pod is equally bent down in 

 both, and the standard occasionally turns green in both, but most 

 frequently retains its yellow colour when dried, so that these two 

 characters which have been enumerated as specific differences are 

 evidently valueless for separating the two, and I should certainly 

 expect to find that continued cultivation would prove their identity. 



SJwrt-podded Small Birds-foot Trefoil. 



French, Lotier Ilispide. 



Sub-Tribe V.— ASTRAGALEiE. 



Stamens diadelphous, the upper one being free from the other 

 nine. Pod imperfectly 2-celled, from the presence of a longitu- 

 dinal partition proceeding from one or both of the sutures. Stems 

 herbaceous or suiTruticose, sometimes extremely short. Leaves 

 pinnate with an odd terminal leaflet, or, more rarely, with the 

 petiole tex*minating in a spine ; leaflets entire. 



GJENUS XI.—O X Y T R O P I S. D. C. 



Calyx bell - shaped or tubular, with 5 teeth, the 2 upper 

 somewhat separated from the 3 lower. Corolla with the 

 standard scarcely spreading, as long as or longer than the wings 

 and keel ; keel with an apiculus or short appendage at the apex. 

 Stamens diadelphous. Style ascending. Stigma obtuse or sub- 

 capitate. Pod ovoid or subclavate, turgid, more or less completely 

 divided into 2 cells by a longitudinal partition, produced by the 



