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L. LANUGINOSUS, Vent. 
Has rose-coloured flowers, and a prostrate stem. 
L. GLABERRIMUS, Dec. ; L. TRICHOCARPUS, Lag. ; and L. COIMBRICENSIS, Brot■ 1 
Have white flowers, with the keel more or less purple, and prostrate stems. 
L. ODORATUS, Sims. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1233. 
The flowers are yellow, striped with red, and the plant is sweet-scented. It is a native of Barbary, 
introduced in 1804. 
GENUS IY. 
ASTRAGALUS, Lin. THE MILK-VETCH. 
Lin. Syst. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx 5-tootlied. Keel obtuse.—(G. Don.) 
1.—ASTRAGALUS SINICUS, Lin. THE ROSE-COLOURED MILK-VETCH. 
Synonyme. — A. Lotoides, Lam. I date leaflets. Flowers four or five in an umbel. Peduncles length of 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 1350; and our fig. 11, in Plate 23. leaves. Legumes prismatic, triquetrous, erect, subulate at the apex.— 
Specific Character. —Plant prostrate, glabrous. Stipules not ! (G. Don.) 
known. Leaves with about four or five pairs of obovate, nearly obcor- I 
Description, &c.— A very pretty little plant with rose-coloured flowers, well adapted for rock-work. It 
resembles a Coronilla more than any plant of the genus to which it is considered to belong, as its flowers 
are produced in an umbel. It is a native of China, and was introduced in 1763. Seeds may be had at Carter’s, 
Holborn, of three annual kinds of Astragalus, but the specific names are not given in his seed catalogue. It is, 
however, probable the above species is one of the three, as it is the kind most generally cultivated. 
OTHER KINDS OF ASTRAGALUS. 
A. VERRUCOSUS, Moris. 
This species is a decumbent plant, with dark purple flowers and warted pods. A native of Sardinia, not 
introduced. 
A. PENTAGLOTTIS, Lin. A. PROCUMBENS, Mill. syn. 
A native of Spain and Barbary, on hills, with bright blue and white flowers, and the pods round, and finger 
or tongue-shaped, in bunches of five together. 
A. CRUCIATUS, Link., syn. A. STELLA, Biel. 
Flowers violet-coloured, and the pods disposed in the shape of a cross or star ; a procumbent plant found 
wild both in Egypt and Siberia, and introduced in 1820. There is another plant, called A. Stella , Gouan, 
which is a native of the south of France and north of Africa, and has bluish-purple flowers. This last kind was 
introduced in 1658. 
