CHAP. XLI. 



LEGUMINA^CE.E. ^STRA'GALUS. 



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& 4. C. (a.) hale'ppica Lam. The Aleppo Colatea, or Bladder Senna. 



Identification. Lam. Diet., 1. p. S53. ; 111., t. 624. f. 2. ; Dec. Astr., No. 2. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 245. 

 Synonymes. C. Pocockw Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 55., Schmidt Arb., t. 129.; C. i'stria Mill. Diet., 



No 2 , t. 100. ; C. procumbens L' Merit. Stirp. Nov., 2. t. 42. 

 Engravings. Schmidt Arb., t. 129. ; Mill. Diet, No. 2. t. 100. ; L'Hent. Stirp. Nov., 2. t. 42. 



Spec. Char., eye. Leaflets roundishly elliptical, very obtuse, mucronate. Pe- 

 duncles bearing 3 yellow flowers. Callosities of the standard lengthened, 

 ascending. Legumes closed. Smaller than C. arborescens. It often 

 occurs, in middle Europe, that plants of C. haleppica are killed by the 

 winter. {Dec. Prod., ii. p. 270.) A shrub, growing to the height of 6 ft., and 

 closely resembling C. arborescens, of which it appears to be a variety. Price 

 the same as that of C. arborescens. 



sfe 5. C. nepale'nsis Hook. The Nepal Colutea, or Bladder Senna. 



Don's Mill., 2. p. 245. 

 and our fig. 319. 



Identification. Hook. Pot. Mag., 2622. 

 Engravings. Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 2622 



Spec. Char., eye. Leaflets 

 roundish-elliptic, retuse. 

 Racemes drooping, few- 

 flowered. Callosities of 

 standard papilliform. Le- 

 gumes rather coriaceous, 

 pubescent. (Don's Mill., 

 ii. p. 245.) A shrub, from 

 Nepal, in 1822, producing 

 its yellow flowers in Au- 

 gust and September. In 

 its native country, it grows to the height of 10 ft. ; but it is not yet com- 

 mon in British gardens. Plants, in the Fulham Nursery, are 5s. each. 



Genus XVII. 



^STRA'GALUS Dec. The Milk Vetch. Lin. Syst. Diadelphia 



Decandria. 



Identification. Dec. Astrag., No. 5. ed. maj. p. 22. and p. 79. ; Prod., 2. p. 291. : Don's Mill., 2. 



p. 253. 

 Synonyme. Astragalus sp. of Lin. and others. 

 Derivation. From astragalos, the vertebrae ; the seeds in the legumes of some species being squeezed 



into a squarish form, so as to look something like the joints of the backbone; or, perhaps, from 



aster, a star, and gala, milk. It is also the name given to a shrub by Greek writers. {Don's Mill., 



2. p. 253.) 



«. 1. A. Tragaca'ntha L. The Goat's Thorn Milk Vetch, or Great Goat's 



Thorn. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1073. ; Pall. Astr., t. 4. f. 1, 2. ; N. Du Ham., 2. t. 100. ; Woodv. Med. 



Bot, 276. t. 98. ; Wats. Dend. Brit., 84. 

 Synonymes. A. massiliensis Lam. Diet., 1. p. 320., Dec. 



Astr., No. 96., Don's Mill., 2. p. 266. 

 Engravings. Pall. Astr., t. 4. f. 1, 2. ; Duh. Arb., 2. t. 100. ; 



Woodv. Med. Bot, 276. t. 98. ; Wats. Dend. Brit, t. 84. ; 



Lob. Icon., 2. t. 27. ; Garid. Aix, 469. t. 104. ; and our 



fig. 320. 



Spec. Char., cjc. Peduncles usually 4-flow- 

 ered, about equal in length to the leaves. 

 Calyxes cylindrical, with 5 short blunt teeth. 

 Leaves with 9 — 11 pairs of elliptic hoary 

 leaflets. (Don's Mill.,\. p. 266.) The flow- 

 ers are purplish or white, and are disposed 

 on axillary peduncles, so short as to pre- 

 vent them from being at all conspicuous 

 above the leaves. A low, prickly, glaucous 



