216 



THE PEAFLOWER TRIBE. 



In mountain pastures, in central Eu- 

 rope and llussian Asia, descending to a 

 low level in the north, and penetrating 

 far into the Arctic regions. Not un- 

 common in Scotland, in dry, hilly pas- 

 tures, chiefly near the sea, but does not 

 descend to England. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 268. 



XIII. ARTHEOLOBE. AKTHKOLOB1UM. 



Slender, spreading, glabrous annuals, with pinnate leaves and axillary 

 peduncles, bearing an umbel of minute flowers, without any bract. 

 Calyx tubular. Pod cylindrical, curved, separating, when ripe, into 

 several one-seeded articles. 



A genus of very few species, chiefly south European, scarcely distinct 

 from Coronilla, and differing from BircVs-foot chiefly in the want of the 

 leaf to the umbel. 



1. Sand Arthrolobe. Arthrolobium ebracteatum, DC. 

 (Eig. 269.) 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2844.) 



Stems very slender, spreading on the ground to the length of 6 

 inches. Leaflets 9 to 15, small, obovate or oblong, the lowest pair 

 at some distance from the stem. Stipules very small. Peduncles 

 very slender, with an umbel of from 2 to 5 minute yellow flowers. 

 Pod about an inch long, slender, curved, ending in a short, hooked 



