DIADELPHIA-DECANDRIA. Anihyllis. 269 



ish. Germ, oblong or half-ovate. Style awl-shaped, as- 

 cending. Stigma obtuse. Legume small, roundish, or 

 oblong, a little turgid, concealed within the enlarged in- 

 flated calyx, of 1 cell and 2 valves. Seeds 1 or 2, round- 

 ish-kidney-shaped, smooth- 

 Elegant herbaceous or shrubby, Europaean ox A.{v'icax\. plants, 

 with variously pinnate leaves, soft or silky pubescence, and 

 mostly capitate and terminal, yellow or whitish, rarely 

 red, powers. 



1. A. vulneraria. Common Kidney-vetch, or La- 

 dies' finger. 



Herbaceous. Leaves pinnate, unequal. Heads of flowers 

 in pairs. 



A. vulneraria. Linn. Sp. PI. 1012. fVilld. v. 3. 1013. Fl. Br. 759. 



Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 104. Dicks. H. Sicc./asc. 3. 10. Hook. Scot. 



213. H. Dan. t. 988. 

 A. leguminosa. Ger. Em. 1 240./. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 87./. 

 A. lenti simllis. Dod. Pempt. 552. f. 

 A. prior Dodonaei. Dalech. Hist. 1380./ 

 Anthyllis. Riv. Tetrap. Irr.t. 18. f. I. 

 Vulneraria n. 398. Hall. Hist. v. I. 173. 

 V. rustica. Raii Syn. 325. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 362./ 

 Loto affinis, Vulneraria pratensis. Bauh. Pin. 332. Morisi v. 2.- 



181.sec^2. t.\7.f. 1,2. 

 /3. A. vulneraria, flore rubro. Dicks. H. Sice. fuse. 18. 18. 

 Vulneraria supina, flore coccineo. Dill, in Raii Syn. 325. Hort. 



Elth. 431. t.320. 

 Loto affinis hirsuta, flore subrubente. Bauh. Pin. 333. 



In chalky or limestone countries, where the soil is dry and rather 

 barren. 



(3. In Pembrokeshire. Mr.Lhwyd, and Mr. Dickson. 



Perennial. June — August. 



Root woody. Stems annual, round, hairy, leafy, mostly simple, 

 ascending, about a foot high. Radical leaves simple, elliptical, 

 on long stalks, soon disappearing ; the rest alternate, pinnate, 

 with a terminal elliptical leaflet, and several pairs of opposite, 

 smaller, more lanceolate ones ; all entire ; smooth, and a little 

 glaucous above ; hairy, or rather silky, underneath and at the 

 margin. Fl. numerous, in a pair of crowded terminal head.g, 

 accompanied by fingered 6rac<eas. Ca/. membranous, pale and 

 hairy. Cor. usually yellow, rarely of a fine red ; in Germany, 

 according to Haller, most frequently white. Legume semi- 

 orbicular, compressed, veiny, smooth, with a solitary seed. 



C. Gesner, it seems, first raised the report of the vulnerary pro- 

 perties of this plant, which perhaps, like other soft and downy 



