122 Leguminose—Anthylts, 
Trine IV.—LOTER. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves pinnately divided ; leaflets 
3 or more, entire. Flowers capitate or umbellate. Upper 
sc:amen free, or not; alternate filaments often dilated. 
11. ANTHYLLIS. 
Trailing herbs or shrubs. Flowers usually capitate, yellow, 
white, purple, or red. Calyx tubular or inflated, including the 
1- or few-seeded pod. Stamens usually monadelphous. About 
twenty species are known, chiefly from the countries bordering 
the Mediterranean Sea. The Greek name. 
1. A. Barba-Jovis. Jupiter’s Beard.—A tender evergreen 
shrub about 3 feet high with pinnate leaves and yellow flowers. 
A handsome silvery shrub rare in cultivation, and requiring 
protection in very severe weather. 
2. A. Vulneraria. Woundwort.—An indigenous herbaceous 
trailing species. Leaves and stems clothed with silky hairs. 
Leaflets 3 to 7, Hnear-oblong. Flowers capitate, varying in 
colour from white and cream to purple and crimson. 
12. LOTUS. 
Procumbent herbs or undershrubs. Leaflets 4 or 5. Flowers 
umbellate on axillary peduncles. Calyx-lobes often longer than 
the tube. Keel beaked. Upper stamens free. Pod oblong or 
linear, terete, turgid or flat. Of the fifty or more species 
there are only a few worthy of cultivation. 
1. LZ. corniculatus. Bird’s-foot Trefoil.—Some of the varieties 
of this very common native plant are very pretty for covering 
rock-work, &c., especially the double-flowered variety. L. 
Jucobceus is the dark-purple-flowered species, formerly more 
cultivated than at present. It is a native of the Cape de 
Verde Islands, and therefore too tender to withstand our 
winters; but it may be treated as an annual. LZ. Gebélia, 
a taller growing species, growing in dense tufts, with glabrous 
and glaucescent foliage and rosy-carmine flowers. Native of 
Syria. L. purpwreus and siliquosus (Tetragonoldbus) are re- 
markable for their ample foliage, purple and yellow flowers, and 
4-winged pods. 
