﻿PLATE DXVI. 

 ASTRAGALUS VILLOSUS. 



Hairy Astragalus. 



CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 

 jmen plerumque triloculare, gibbum. Se- II A pod mostly two-celled, bunched. Seeds L 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Astragalus caule humili villoso: foliis pinna- II Astragalus with a low hairy stem. I 



tis : foliolis 20—30, oblongis, geminis, vil- winged. Leaflets 20 to 30, oblong, in 



losis : petiolis longissimis, villosis : floribus and villous. Footstalk of the leaves 



aggregatis viride flavis: leguminibus ob- long, and hairy. Flowers in bunch 



lortgis, lanatis. a greenish yellow. Pod oblong, and w 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empalement. 



2. The standard. 



3. One of the wings. 



4. The keel. 



5. The chives. 



6. The same spread open. 

 7- Seed-bud and pointal. 



8. The same shown from the under side. 



The figure of this handsome hardy perennial shrub was delineated from a plant in the collection of 

 J. Swainson, esq. at Twickenham, where it was raised from seed received from Vienna in the year 

 1805, under the title of Astragalus exscapus : but upon comparison with the figures extant of that 

 species, we could not with propriety rank it under that denomination, especially as it bears as irno 

 or more resemblance to some of the surrounding species of that extensive family, one hundred an 

 seventy-four of which are already enumerated by Willdenow. It is a plant of very humble growth, bat 

 fe. durine the months of W 



