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Calyx-tube cylindrical-oblong, thickly clothed with black hairs; 

 teeth linear-lanceolate, one-third the lengtli of the tube. Corolla 

 scarcely twice as long as the calyx. Pods erect, stipitatc on a 

 carpopliore much shorter than the calyx-tube, broadly oval-ovoid, 

 abrupt or subcordate at the base, apieulate, faintly channelled at 

 the lower suture, which is inflexed and projects inwards in the 

 form of an imperfect partition, clothed with white woolly hairs. 



On dry gravelly and chalky pastures. Not very common. 

 Principally found in the eastern counties, from Essex and Uerts 

 to Aberdeen, Moray, and Ross. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Eootstock extensively creeping, very slender, much branched. 

 Stems 2 to 8 inches long. Leaves 1 to 3 inches long ; leaflets \ to 

 |- inch long, rounded or notched at the apex, with scattered hairs even 

 on the upper surface. Stipules lanceolate, united half-way up 

 opposite the leaf so as to form a sheath. Elowers 6 to 20, f inch 

 long, bluish-purple, nearly sessile, in a dense racemose head not 

 elongating in fruit; the bracts half as long as the calyx-tube. Pod 

 ^ to I inch long, rupturing the calyx-tube. Seeds roundish-reni- 

 form, brownish-black. Plant greyish-green, sparingly clothed with 

 white adpressed hairs, the upper part of the peduncles and calyces 

 with black ones. 



Furple Milk-Vetch, Tongue-under-Tongue. 



French, Aatragale HijpogloUe. German, Wiesen BdrenschoU. 



SPECIES III. — ASTRAGALUS GLYC YPH YLLUS. Linn. 

 Plate CCCLXXYII. 



Rootstock thick, woody, slightly branched. Stems elongated, 

 stout, ascending or decumbent. Leaves with 4 to 7 pairs of oval 

 leaflets, which are glabrous on the upper surface. Stipules not 

 sheathing. Peduncles shorter than the leaves. Elowers in short 

 compact ovoid racemes or elongated heads, spreading when 

 expanded. Bracts rather longer than the pedicels. Calyx-tube 

 bell-shaped, glabrous except at the mouth ; teeth triangular- 

 subulate, half the length of the tube. Corolla more than twice 

 the length of the calyx. Pods erect, stipitatc on a carpophore 

 as long as the calyx-tube, cylindrical, tapering, curved upwards, 

 gradually acuminated into a slender beak, deeply channelled at the 

 lower suture, which is inflexed and projects inwards in the form 

 of an imperfect partition, appearing glabrous to the naked eye. 



In bushy places, woods, thickets, on the borders of fields, and 



