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LEGUMINOSiE. 
Tr. II. VICIEsE. Pod continuous. Stam. diadelphous. 
Cotyledons remaining under ground. 
12. Vicia. Cal. 5-fid or 5-toothed. Style filiform, its upper 
part hairy all over, or bearded on the underside and at the 
same time hairy or glabrous. Pods 1 -celled, 2-valved. 
13. Lathyrus. Cal. 5-fid or 5-toothed. Style dilated up- 
wards, plane on the upper side, hairy beneath the stigma. 
Pods 1-celled, 2-valved. — L. with tendrils. 
14. Orobus. Cal. 5-fid or 5-toothed. Style linear or dilated 
upwards, plane on the upper side, hairy beneath the stigma. 
Pods 1-celled, 2-valved. — L. with an herbaceous point in the 
place of tendrils. 
Tr. III. HED YSAREJE. Pod divided transversely into 1- 
seeded joints. 
15. Ornithopus. Cal. elongated, tubular, with 5 nearly 
equal teeth : 2 upper ones slightly combined and converging. 
Keel obtuse. Pod elongated, compressed, of many 1 -seeded 
indehiscent joints equally narrowed on both sides at the articu- 
lations. — Apex of the common peduncles bearing a small 
pinnate leaf just below the flowers. 
16. Arthrolobium. Cal. elongated, tubular, with 5 nearly 
equal teeth : 2 upper ones combined up to their middle and 
straight. Keel obtuse. Pod elongated, cylindrical, of many 
1 -seeded indehiscent joints scarcely narrowed at the articula- 
tions. — No leaf at the apex of the peduncles. 
17. Hippocrepis. Cal. short, campanulate, with 5 nearly 
equal teeth : 2 upper ones combined up to their middle. 
Keel narrowed into a beak. Pod elongated, compressed, of 
many 1 -seeded crescent-shaped joints, so that each pod has 
many notches on one side. 
18. Onobrychis. Cal. with 5 nearly equal subulate teeth. 
Keel obliquely truncate, longer than the wings. Pod 1-celled, 
compressed, indehiscent, 1 -seeded, upper suture straight, 
lower curved toothed winged or crested. 
Tribe I. Lolets. 
1. Ulex Linn. 
1. U. europceus (L.) ; cal. shaggy, bracts ovate lax, young 1. 
shaggy beneath furrowed, primary spines strong terete polygonal 
furrowed minutely scabrous, st. hairy, fl. lateral. — E. B. 742. — 
St. 4 — 6 feet high, very much branched spreading. Fl. bright 
yellow, springing from both the primary and secondary spines. 
Spines branching at their base and up to about half their length, 
