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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
terminal or lateral obtuse or swollen stigmatiferous surface.! The 
fruit (fig. 168) is an oblong or often linear bivalve’ pod, straight or 
curved, cylindrical or with four longitudinal wings, turgid or 
plano-compressed, and usually divided by incomplete transverse 
false septa into chambers, each of which contains a lenticular 
or subglobular campylotropous seed without any arillar dilatation. 
Anthyllis Vulneraria 
(Kidney Veitch, Lady’s-fingers). 
Fre. 169. 
Flower (3). 
Fie. 170. 
Longitudinal 
section of flower. 
The plants of this genus are herbaceous 
or suffrutescent, glabrous or covered 
with silky or bristly down. The leaf- 
lets of the alternate trifoliolate leaves 
articulate with the apex of the petiole, 
and the stipules resemble the leaflets 
in form. The flowers form often few- 
or one-flowered false umbels terminat- 
ing an axillary peduncle, and are fre- 
quently accompanied by a trifoliolate 
bract. Some fifty species are known from 
all temperate and mountainous regions.® 
In the series Zotee come first of all 
three other genera in which as in Lotus’ 
the pod is bivalve—Cytisopsis, Dorycnium, 
and Hosackia. The genus Anthyllis 
(figs. 169, 170) may be considered the 
tvpe of a second subseries including 
four genera in which the fruit does not open at all, or else opens 
but slightly at avery advanced period. These genera are Anthyllis, 
Securigena, Helminthocarpum, and Hymenocarpus. 
1 In Eulotus Sxur., the style often has a little 
introrse lobe or accessory tooth. This is also the 
case in Pedrosia. The appendage becomes mem- 
branous in certain species of Tetragonolobus. 
? The form of the fruit is the chief character 
by which this genus has been subdivided into 
sections. BrytaaM admits the five following :— 
1. Krokeria.—Pod coriaceous, turgid bowed ; 
inferior suture strongly marked. 
2. Lotea.—Pod thin, linear bowed, compressed 
or torulose. 
8. Microlotus.—Pod oblong or linear, usually 
straight (the calyx differs from that of Zotea). 
4, Eulotus—Pod of Lotea or Microlotus ; 
calyx bilabiate or with five subequal lobes, 
5. Tetragonolobus.—Each valve of pod with 
five longitudinal wings ; seeds separated by false 
septa. Style of Zulotus. 
3 Desr., Fl. Atlant., t. 210 ( Tetragonolobus).— 
Vent., Jard. Malm., t. 92; Jard. Cels., t. 57.— 
Cayv., Icon., ii. 156, 157, 163.— Sinru., FI. 
Grac., t. '755-758.—Jacg., Fl. Austr. t. 361 
(Tetragonolobus).—DrEss., Icon. Sel., iii. t. 
66.—Bnrot., Phyt. Lusit., t. 53.—Torr. & Gr., 
Fl. N. Amer., i. 325.— WEBB, Phyt. Canar.,, ii. 
80, t. 60-65.—CamBess., Enum. Pl. Balear., t. 
15.—Jaus. & Spacu, Jil. Pl. Orient., t. 96 
(Ononis)—Hoox. & Any., Beech. Voy. Bot., i. 
8.—A. Gray, in Proceed. Acad. Philad. (1863), 
351.—Hoox., Icon, t. 754, 757.—Fzyzz, in 
