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leaflets, which are sub-glahrous on the upper surface. Stipules 

 sheathing. Peduncles shorter than or eqvial to the leaves -whea in 

 flower. Flowers in a lax depressed-globular head, spreading when 

 expanded. Bracts about as long as the pedicels. Calyx-tube cam- 

 panulate, thickly clothed with black adpressed hairs ; teeth trian- 

 gular, more than half the length of the tube. Corolla three times 

 as long as the calyx. Pods reflexed, stipitate on a carpophore 

 about as long as the calyx-tube, fusiform-ovoid, attenuated at each 

 end, deeply channelled on the lower suture which is inflexed and 

 projects inwards in the form of an imperfect partition, clothed with 

 short black bristly hairs. 



On a grassy knoll at Little Cragindal, near the Castleton of 

 Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; and at the head of Glen Dole, Clova, 

 Forfarshire. 



Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock very slender, much branched ; branches terminating 

 in short leafy stems. Leaves 2 to 5 inches long; leaflets \ to 

 "I inch long, entire or slightly notched at the apex, with short white 

 adpressed hairs on the underside and margins. Stipules rhomboid- 

 ovate, apiculate, united at the base so as to form a kind of sheath. 

 Peduncles axillary. Flowers f inch long, in a very short capitate 

 raceme, whitish tinged with lilac at the apex ; the keel purple at 

 the point. Pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube. Bracts mem- 

 branous, scarcely exceeding the pedicels. Calyx-tube with the 

 mouth oblique, the lower portion projecting beyond the upper, not 

 ruptured by the fruit. Keel much curved upwards. Pods pen- 

 dulous, straight, -^ to f inch long, inflated, olive, thickly clothed 

 with short black bristly hairs, on a stalk as long as the calyx-tube, 

 and with a slender beak at the apex about as long as the stalk. 

 Seeds reniform, brown. Plant pale pea-green, slightly glaucous, 

 rather sparingly clothed with white adpressed hairs except on the 

 upper portion of the peduncles, calyces, and pods, where they are 

 black. 



Alpine Milk- Fetch. 



SPECIES IL— ASTRAGALUS HYPOGLOTTIS. Linn. 

 Plate CCCLXXVI. 



Rootstock slender, creeping, much branched. Stems short, 

 slender, decumbent. Leaves with 7 to 15 pair of elliptical leaflets, 

 which are hairy on the upper surface. Stipules sheathing. Pe- 

 duncles longer than the leaves. Flowers in dense ovoid-globular 

 heads, erect when expanded. Bracts longer than the pedicels. 



