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12 pairs, peduncles longer than the leaves erect silki/, hracts as 
long as the caly.K, pods erect ovate-ohlong inflated silki/ 2-celled. 
— Astrar/alus vrulensis Sin. E. B. 4(i(). — Root, or more correctly 
stem, noody, branched. Pods abrnjit with a very oblique acute 
point. FI. bluish purjile. “ PI. uralensis ah curopa-a differt.” 
Koch . — Dry hilly pastures in Scotland. P. VII. S. 
2. 0. campestris (DC.) ; st. short procumbent, leaflets lan- 
ceolate in about 12 pairs, peduncles rather longer than the 1. 
ascending hairy, bracts as long as the calyx, pods erect ovate in- 
flated hairy imperfectly 2-celled. — Astragalus Sm. E. B. 2522. 
St. 19. 12. — Root woody, producing short procumbent stems. 
Pods narrowed upwards with a slightly oblique jioint. FI. yel- 
lowish tinged with purple. — Clova IMountains. P. VII. S. 
11. Astragalus 
1. A. hypoglottis (L.) ; st. prostrate, slip, combined, leaflets 
blunt in 8 — 10 pairs, spikes ovate, peduncles longer than the leaves, 
pods ovate hairy stalked in the calyx erect. — E. B. 274. — Stip. 
quite combined into one leaflet opposite to the leaves. St. a few 
inches long, slender. Leaflets small. FI. in rather large heads, 
ascending, ])urple. Ovary twice as long as its stalk. — Chalky 
and gravelly places. P. VI. VII. 
2. A. alpinus (L.) ; st. procumbent, stip. ovate free, leaflets 
elliptical blunt in 10 — 12 pairs, spikes capitate, peduncles as long 
as the leaves, pods oblong hairy narrowed at both ends stalked 
in the calyx jyendidous. — E. B. S. 2/17. St. 19. 13. — Stip. some- 
times slightly connected at the base. St. elongated, slender. 
FI. few, (h'ooping, nhite tipped with purple. — Loftv mountains. 
Glen Dole, Clova. Little Craigiudal, Braemar. P. VII. S. 
3. A. glycyphyllos (L.); st. prostrate, stip. ovate-lanceolate 
free, leaflets ovate in 5 — 6 pairs, spikes ovate, peduncles much 
shorter than the leaves, pods linear incurved erect glabrous . — 
E. B. 203. — St. 2 — 3 feet long, scarcely branched, nearly gla- 
brous. FI. in short dense spikes, dull yellow. Pods an inch 
long. — Thickets on a chalky or gravelly soil. P. VI. 
Tribe II. Viciea. 
12. ViciA Linn. 
* Upper part of the style equally hairy all over. Ervum 
Peterm., Koch Syn. ed. 2. 218. note. 
t Peduncles elongated, few-flowered ; cal. not gibbous at the 
base on the upper side. Tares. 
1. V. hirsuta (Koch) ; peduncles 2 — 6-floivered about as long 
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