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of the last species, with from G to 10 flowers, which are rather 

 larger, cream-colour tinged with very pale pinkish-lilac, with a 

 purple hlotch at the apex of the keel on the upper margin, lea\-ing 

 tlie apiculus whicli characterizes the genus ochreous. Pods f to 1 

 inch long, more inflated than those of the preceding species, without 

 the imperfect dissepiment proceeding from the lower suture. Seeds 

 maroon-coloured, hut in other respects very similar. 



On the Continent this plant occurs with entirely ochreous 

 flowers, and also another variety, ccendea, in which the flowers are 

 almost entirely bluish-purple. The British form belongs to the 

 variety sordida. 



Pale-yeUoic Oxytropis. 



French, Oxylrope des Alpes. German, Beluiarte FaJinwk/ce. 



GBNtIS XII.— K STRAGALUS. Linn. 



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

 what separated from the 3 lower. Corolla with the standard 

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

 keel ; keel obtuse, without an apiculus. Stamens diadelphous. 

 Style ascending. Stigma obtuse or sub-capitate. Pod varying 

 in shape, tumid, more or less completely divided into 2 cells by a 

 longitudinal partition proceeding from the lower or dorsal suture. 

 Seeds few or numerous. 



Herbs or undershrubs of various habit, but with the leaves 

 pinnate, with numerous pairs of pinnae and generally an odd ter- 

 minal leaflet, more rarely with the petiole excurrent and leafless 

 but never terminating in a tendril. Flowers in terminal and axil- 

 laiy racemes spikes or heads, more rarely solitai'y or in pairs, purple, 

 blue, white, ochreous, or yellow. 



The name of this genus of plants is derived from the Greek word aaronyoKoQ, the 

 vertebra, applied by Dioscorides to some legiiminiferous plant, the knotted rootstock of 

 which resembled a backbone. Some writers say the derivation is from atn-ijj) (aster), 

 a star, and yoKa {gala), milk. 



SPECIES I.— ASTRAGALUS ALPINUS. Linn. 



Plate CCCLXXV. 



Phaca astragalina, D. C. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 200. Gr. 4 Gixlr. 

 Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 452. 



Rootstock slender, creeping, much branched. Stems short, 

 slender, decumbent. Leaves with 7 to 10 pairs of ovate-elliptical 



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