Astragalus.'] xxvL leguminos^ : astragale^. 



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less perfectly) ; cells formed by the inflexed margins of the up- 

 per suture. — !N"amed from o|fc, sharp^ and rpoTvic^ B.keel^ one of 

 the essential characters of this genus, as distinguishing it from 

 the preceding. 



1. 0. Uralensis DC. (hairy Mountain O,) ; stemless, leaflets 

 about 12 pairs ovate acute densely clothed with silvery hairs, 

 scape erect longer than the leaves with spreading hairs, legumes 

 erect ovate- cylindrical silky with a recurved point, style per- 

 sistent. Aslrairalus i. ; £J, B. t. 466. 



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Ox. Halleri Bitnge (not 



Dry pastures in Scotland, chiefly near the sea. 



Ross : 



Queensferry ; 

 Sutherland. 



6 inches high. Flowers bright purple, 



Montrose; Mull of Galloway ; Argyle ; Koss ; Sutherland. 2/.. 

 6, 7. — -A very beautiful plant, clothed with silky hairs, especially on 

 the young leaves." Leaflets 8 — 12 pairs, on foreign specimens some- 

 times 20 pairs, with an odd one, ovate, oblong or narrow-lanceolate, 

 acute. Scape, when in/r., 4— 

 capitate, somewhat spreading. Legumes sometimes 2-celled, some- 

 times only divided to the middle^ in the same plant. We cannot dis- 

 tinguish the European from the Siberian plant. 



2. 0. campestris DC. (yellowish Mountain O.) ; stems very 

 short procumbent, leaflets about 12 pairs elliptic lanceolate 

 sprinkled with shining hairs, peduncles ascending about the 

 same length as the leaves, legumes erect ovate inflated pubescent 

 semibilocular. Astragalus L. : E. B. t. 2522. A. sordidus Willd. 



Rocks facing the south, a little to the north of Bradoony, in the 

 Clova mountains. 2^. 7. — Flowers capitate, yellowish, tinged with 

 purple. The Scotch plant belongs to the variety or species called 

 0. sordida, but w^e perceive no essential difference between this and 

 0, campestris. 



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12. Astragalus Linn. Milk- vetch. 



■ Keel obtuse. Legume 2-celled (more or less perfectly) ; cells 

 formed by the inflexed margins of the lower suture. — Adrpa' 

 yaXoQ^ one of the bones of the heel, is the Greek name for one of 

 the species, in allusion to the knotted root of that individual 

 plant to which it was formerly applied. 



^hjcyph^llus L. (siveet M.) ; stem prostrate, spikes 

 ovate, leaves longer than the peduncles, leaflets oval, stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate free, legumes somewhat triangular linear 

 curved sessile erect glabrous. E. B, t. 203. 



Woods and thickets, in a gravelly or calcareous soil. Rare in 

 Scotland; about Edinburgh, Queensferry, and Arbroath. ^. 6 — 9. 



Wei! distinguished by its large size. Stem prostrate, 2 — 3 ft. 

 lon<r. Leaves with large ovate acute stipides, which are free from 



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each other and from the petiole. 

 an inch or more in length, curved. 



Flowers dingy yellow. Legumes 



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