294 DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Astragalus. 



no tendrils. Stipulas simple. Fl. spiked, clustered, or 

 tufted, purple, yellow, or whitish. Legumes of the greatest 

 variety of forms, even in species otherwise nearly allied- 



1. K.glycyphyllos. Sweet Milk-vetch. Wild Liquorice. 



Stem prostrate. Legumes obscurely triangular, incurved. 

 Leaves longer than the flower-stalks ; leaflets oval. 



A. glycyphyllos. Linn. Sp. P/. 1067. Willd.v. 3. 1 276. Fl. Br. 779.. 



Engl. Bot. v.3.t. 203. Hook. Scot. 217. 

 A. n,413. Hall. Hist. v.\.\SO. 

 A. luteus perennis procumbens vulgaris, sive sylvestris. Raii Syn. 



326. Moris, v. 2. 107. sect. 2. t. 9./. 8. 

 Astragalus. Riv. Tefrap. Irr. t. 103. 

 Hedysaium glycyirhizatum. Ger. Em. 1233./. 

 Foenogrsecum sylvestre. Trag. Hist. 599. f. 

 Glycyrrhiza sylvestris. Dalech. Hist. 25 1 . f. 



In woods, thickets, the borders of fields, or at the sides of hills, on 

 a chalky or gravelly soil. 



Perennial. June. 



Root perpendicular, running deep into the earth, simple at the 

 crown. Stems several, 2 or 3 feet long, prostrate among grass 

 or other plants, leafy, angular, nearly smooth, scarcely branched. 

 Leaves a span long, of 9 or 1 1 uniform, oval, bluntish, smooth, 

 bright green leaflets, about an inch in length. Stipulas ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire. Fl. pale sulphur-coloured, in ovate spikes, 

 on stout axillary stalks, much shorter than the adjoining leaf. 

 Bracteas solitary under each flower, awl-shaped. Legumes full 

 an inch long, nearly cylindrical, with a slight longitudinal furrow, 

 curved upwards, pointed, smooth and even. Seeds 7 or 8, yel- 

 lowish. 



The leaves have at first a sweetish taste, soon changing on the pa- 

 late to a nauseous bitter. Cattle are not fond of them, nor is 

 this plant applied to any agricultural use. 



2. A. hypoglottis. Purple Mountain Milk-vetch. 



Stem prostrate. Flowers in round heads. Legumes ovate, 

 deeply channelled along the back, compressed, hairy ; 

 hooked at the point. Leaflets blunt. 



A. hypoglottis, Linn. Mant. 2. 274. fVilld. v. 3. 1285. Fl. Br. 780. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 274. Hook. Scot.2\7. Sibth. 227. 

 A. arenarius. Huds. 323. Fl. Ban. t.6U. 

 A. DanicvLS. Retz. Obs.fasc.3.A\. 



A. epiglottis. Dicks. H, Sicc.fasc. \. \3; but not really so. 

 A. incanus parvus purpureus nostras. Pluk. Mmag. 59; with 



wrong synonyms of the Bauhins. Raii Syn. 326. 1. 12. f. 3. 



