Astragalus.] legominos^. 125 



y. tenuis. " Leaflets narrow lanceolate, or linear-obovate." y. tenuifolius, 

 Br. Fl. L. tenuis, Kit. . E. B. Suppt. t. 2615. 



On open grassy places, pastures, heaths and borders of fields ; everywhere plen- 

 tiful. FL June — August. 2(.. 



j3. Wood between Yarmouth and Thorley. Plentiful in Thorness Wood, Quarr 

 Copse, &c. 



y. Gravel-pil near Great Thorness farm. About Cowes in several places. Miss 

 G. Kilderbee .'.' Between Ryde and Blading, on the road beyond Whiteiield 

 Wood, W. Borrer, Esq. [Plentiful in all the clayey fallow-fields about Bem- 

 bridge, A. G. More, Esq. Near Wootton, on the new road from Wootlon bridge 

 to Hill-side, covering a great part of the road, Dr. Bell-Salter. — Edrs.] A 

 state of this var. occurs by the roadside between Thorley and Wilmingham farm, 

 with the leaves extremely narrow and acute, somewhat rigid and of a glaucous 

 aspect, and covered on both sides with .ihort, scattered, close-pressed hairs, the 

 peduncles mostly 2 — 4, rarely 5-flowereJ. 



Mr. Borrer is much inclined to consider the var. y. as really distinct from L. 

 corniculaius, and tells me that in his garden it appears to be either annual or 

 biennial, as he could never preserve it for mure than a year or two, after which 

 time the original plant disappeared to be succeeded by fresh ones from seed. 



3. L. major, Scop. Narrow-leaved Bird's-foot Trefoil. Heads 

 depressed umbellate 8 — 12 flowered, peduncles very long, calycine 

 teeth subulate from an angular base always spreading, the two 

 upper ones diverging, claw of the standard linear, leaflets obovate, 

 stems nearly erect tubular." — Br. Fl. p. 104. E. B t. 2091. 



In low moist meadows and wet bushy places, on ditch-banks, and by the sides 

 of streams, &c. ; very common. Fl. July, August. 2^. 



Siibtribe III. Asi'RAGALEiE. 



" Legume spuriously and longitudinally 1- or i-celled by the introflexion of one 

 of the sutures. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Stems herbaceous or somewhat 

 shrubby. Leaves pinnate." — Br. FL 



XI. AsTEAGAius, Linn. Milk Vetch. 



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

 formed by the inflexed margins of the lower suture." — Br. Fl. 



1. A. glycyphyllus, L. Siveet Milk Vetch. Wild Liquorice. 

 " Stem prostrate, spikes ovate, leaves longer than the peduncles, 

 leaflets oval, stipules ovate-lanceolate free, legumes somewhat tri- 

 angular linear curved sessile erect glabrous." — Br. Fl. p. 106. 

 E. B. t. 203. 



On dry bushy banks, in woods, thickets and open gravelly or chalky pastures 

 and border of fields, mostly in hilly situations; rare. J"/. June — September. 2f. 



E. Med. — Abundantly on a bushy bank below Little Buddie, about midway 

 between St. Cb\therine's and Old Castle points, G. Kirkpatrick, Esq. In great 

 profusion amongst furze and brake in a rough rocky close near the orchard (Sir 

 Willoughby Gordon's) by Niton. Plentiful amongst the rocks and in pasture- 

 ground at Mount Cleve, by Niton, Miss Kirkpatrick .'.'.' (I find it all along the 

 bottom of the cliff from the back of the Sandrock Hotel to Westclifif House). 



Boot tough, woody. Stems scarcely branched, trailing or reclining amongst 

 brushwood often to the length of 3 or 4 feet or even more, roundish, zigzag, 

 smooth, with a white central pith. Leaves alternate, .3—7 inches long, impari- 

 pinnale, of 5 or 6 pairs of large ovate or elliptical, entire, smooth, nearly sessile 



