76 BASINER 
multoties superantes.  Bracteolae setaceae, calycis tubo mulio longiores. Corolla e sicco 
violaceo-purpurea, marcescens, persistens, lomentum contortuplicatum includens. Carina alas 
paulo superans veæillo obcordato v. oblongo-obcordato paulo brevior.  Lomenti articuli or- 
biculares, lentiformes (1'/,—2 lin. lati), venis parum incrassatis reticulato-subrugosi, pube 
tenui densissima subvilloso-tomentosi, spinulis setiformibus omnino destitui (? ). 
Oss. 
Ab Hed. grandifloro, cui proxime accedi‘, distinguitur foliolis 1— rar. 2-jugis, latio- 
ribus, utrinque pube densa obsitis, ratione longitudinis calycis et corol :« atque pubescen- 
tia petiolorum et pedunculorum adpressa, pilis patentibus nullis intermixtis. 
32. Hcdysarum argenteum (L. f. suppl. 333). 
H. caule abbrevia'o, foliolis 2—5-jugis, ovato-ellipticis, supra pilosis, subtus sericeo- 
nitidis; petiolis pedunculisque adpresse pilosis; corolla calÿcem paulo superante; carina 
alas subduplo superante, vexillum subaequante; lomenti articulis lentiformibus, rugosis, 
albo-tomentosis, spinulosis v. tuberculatis. 
DC. Prodr. 1. c. (excl. syn. Gmel sib.) — Ledeb. FI. Le L 699 cum cit. 
4; hab. in Rossia australi (Podolia Se MES et in collibus calcareis DATE cau- 
casici circa Konstantinogorsk, non vero in Sibiria. 
Adumbr'atio. 
Caules abbreviati, */, — 1 - pollicares +. paulo longiores. Folia 2 — 5 - plerumque 
3 — W-juga, in basi pedunculorum scapiformium conferta, sparsa v. subdisticha, petiolis 
adpresse pilosis, foliolis plerumque ovato-ellipticis, rar. ovatis ellipticis e. oblongis (k—8 
lin. latis, 6—15 Lin. longis), obtusis, mucronulatis +. mucrone nullo. Stipulae subsemi- 
pollicares, in unam oppositifoliam plus minus bifidam coalitae, caulem subimbricatim vagi- 
nantes, scariosae, fuscae, plus minus incanae. Pedunculi e sicco striati, adpresse pi- 
losi, */,—1-pedales. Flores in apice pedunculorum pedicellis */,- +. vix 1-linearibus in 
racemum spicaeformem, demum elongatum, dense conferti, 8-lineares. Bracteae lanceolato- 
acuminatae, 3—5-lineares, scariosae, fuscae, adpresse pilosae. Calycis 6—7 lin. longi, 
dense hirsuti dentes subaequales, lineari-subulati, tubur subunilinearem multo superantes. 
Bracteolae setaceae calycis tubum mullo superantes. Corolla purpurascens, marcescens, 
persisiens, lomentum contortuplicatum includens. Carina vexillum obovatum, emarginatum, 
subacquans v. illo paulo brevior, alas subduplo superans. Lomenti articuli suborbicu- 
lares, lentiformes (diametro */,—2 lin. lati), parum rugosi, albo-tomentosi, spinulis seti- 
formibus, brevibus, incurvis +. rectiusculis, sacpe ad tubercula reductis, obsiti. 
33. Hedysarum candidum (M. a Bieb. FI. taur. cauc. IL. 176). 
H. caule abbreviato; foliolis 2—5-jugis, ovato- v. orbiculato-ellipticis, pube adpressa 
