DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. ^g^ 



ORNITHOPUS. G^«.^/. 884. 

 Legumen articulatum, teres, arcuatum. 

 perpufillus ORNITHOPUS foliis pinnatis, leguminibus Tub- 

 arcuatis. Sp. pL 1049. (Ger. errJ. 1241. /, 3. 

 Moris, hifl.f. -jl. t, 10./. 13.} 



Bird*s-foot. Anglis. 



In gravelly or Tandy grounds, but not common. 

 Mr. Stuart obfervcd it about Comrie, a village 

 four miles from Criefy in Strath-Erne. o. VL 

 VII. 



The flalks are fix or eight inches high, and lie 

 proftrate upon the ground : the leaves have about 

 15 pair of very Imall, oval, foft, hairy, and 

 nearly equal pmi^^ with an odd one at the end : 

 the peduncles arife from the aU of the leaves, 

 and bear a kind of half-umbel, confiding of 

 three or four fmall yellow flowers, the vexillum 

 tinged with red : the pods are (lightly hairy, 

 curved, jointed with fix or eight articulations, 

 and terminated with a claw, fo that altogether 

 they not unaptly reprefent a bird's foot. Each 

 joint contains a fingle feed. 



ASTRAGALUS. Gen. pi. 892. 



Legumen biloculare, gibbum. 



* Caulibus foliofis diffufis. 



Xlycyphillos ASTRAGALUS caulefcens proliratus, legumini- 



I. bus fubtriquetri$ arcuatis, foliolis ovalibus pe- 



dunculo longioribus. Sp. pi. 1067. {Ger. em. 



