DIADELPHIA DPXANDRIA. 401 



three to fix inches high, procumbent at the bafe : 

 the leaves have ten or twelve pairof fmall, hairy, 

 elliptical pinna*^ with an odd one at the end : the 

 peduncle is longer than the leaves, and bears at 

 the top a cluiter of about fix purple flowers : 

 the calyces are covered with black hairs: the pods 

 are fhort, oval, inflated, hoary, and white with 

 woolly hairs. 



** Scapo nudoj ahfque caule foliofo, 



uraknfis 3. A. acaulis, fcapo ere6lo foliis longiorc, legumini- 

 'bus fubulatis inflatis villoiis erettis. 6^. pi. 107 1. 

 {Haller. opttfc. t, 2. fig. media. Hift.ftirp. Helve t. 

 n. 410. /. \\.fig. infer. adji?tijlram. ^ fig' noft.) 



Silken Aftragalus. Jnglis, 



Upon Carn-dearg., one of the lov;er heads of Ben- 

 Sguilert^ a high mountain in Gkn-creran., in Up- 

 per-Lorn^ growing together with plenty of tlie 

 DRYAS o5fo-petala., in a light Tandy foil : found 

 there by my ingenious friend Mr, Stuart. 



It has alfo been difcovered at the bay of Farr^ on 

 the eaftern coail, and in a rocky foil at Cro- 

 many., by Mr. Robertfon. See Scotch magazine 

 for July 1768, with a figure of it. %. VII. 



The root is long and v/oody : the (lalk is five or 

 fix inches high, deftitute of leaves, fofc and 

 downy : the leaves are all radical, and confiH: 

 each often or twelve pair of oval-acuce p/??;?^, 

 covered with a white filky down : the flowers are 

 of a pale violet color, and grow eight or ten to- 

 D d gether 



