188 
25. LEGIJTilNOSiE. 
a. pubescens Novit. 1. c. ; wholly pubescent. — B. Pelecinus 
Desf. ii. 190 ; FI. Gr. t. 737 ; DC. ii. 307. — On the Brazen Head 
outside the hummock, and at the Piedade, Can^al, ascending 
from the sandy beach. Top of N. Deserta near the ruined house. 
Top of SD. In P t0 S t0 general in waste ground, cornfields, on 
simny slopes of hills by road-sides, &c., from the sea-cliffs up 
to the very summits of P. d'Anna Ferreira, P. do Castello, &c. 
here and there. 
/3. glabra Novit. 24 or 546 ; WB. 1. c. ; wholly smooth. — rrr. 
Only on the Brazen Head, Mad., growing intermixed with a, 
and without intermediate forms. Yet, except in the entire 
want of pubescence in every part, there is no essential difference 
at all between the two, — a being all over hairy, almost hoary, 
in every part, with the midrib of the pods usually dark purple 
or v. ; j3 quite smooth in every part, with the midrib of the 
unripe pods gr. like the rest. In size or luxuriance, as in size 
and colour of the fl. the two entirely agree. 
20. Astragalus L. 
§ Ochroleuci Bucerates DC. Stip. free distinct, fl. y. or 
yellowish, pods often hooked, root annual. 
1. A. Solandri Lowe. 
Herbaceous ann. villose-pubescent ; st. procumbent or diffuse; 
stip. free distinct; lfts. in mostly 10-12 crowded pairs oval or 
elliptic-oblong notched or retuse smooth above, hoary-grey and 
hairy or villose beneath ; ped. many-flowered elongate as long 
as or somewhat longer than the 1. ; pedic. in fr. defiexed ; pods 
pendulous slender falcate acute compressed trigonal widely and 
deeply channeled at the back, closely strigose-pubescent. — 
Hook. J. of Bot. viii. 294. A. canescens Sol. ! in BIT. ; Buch ! 
197. no. 399 ; Prim. 34 (not I)C.). A. hamoms Sibth. Fl. Gr. 
t. 728 (not Linn. !). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, rrr. PS. reg. 2, 
3, c. P ta S. Lourem^o on the Ilheo dos Fmbarcadores, first ob- 
served by the Rev. Marwood Tucker, 1838. PS. simny rocky 
slopes and hill-sides, general. April-June. — Very variable in 
size and luxuriance. — Root small nearly simple tapering white 
a little woody. From its crown spring several slightly flexuose 
st. which are sometimes nearly upright but mostly at first more 
or less prostrate then ascending, from 2 or 8 to 12 or 18 in. long. 
Whole pi. hoary dull gr. and clothed in all parts except the 
upper surface of tin; lfts. with copious white adpressed shaggy 
but not long hairs. Stip. ovate-lanceolate acuminate, free and 
distinct from the petiole, but often more or less combined with 
each other round the st., placed as usual one on each side the base 
of the petiole, lifts, in from 10-14 seldom fewer than 5 or G 
pairs becoming gradually smaller from the baso upwards, 3-7 
