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obitufe fpikes from the axillas; their colour is yellow. The 
legumes are (hut up in the woolly calyxes, and have two 
cells, containing three'or four fquare feeds in each. It 
flowers in June or July, arid the feeds ripen in September. 
This plant feldom continues longer than two or three 
years. The firft year it rarely flowers; but, when the 
plants come up in the fpring, they will get ftrerigth be¬ 
fore winter, and will flower ftronger tl.e following fum- 
mer. It was difeovered by Tournefort on the Alps, and 
fince his time has beeirfound growing naturally in Siberia. 
Linnteus fays it is from Siberia and Spain. 
2. Aftragalus chriflianus: caulefcent ereft, flowers glo¬ 
merate fubfeflile from all the leafy axillas. This fends up 
iialks near three feet high, which are large at bottom, and 
gradually diminifli to the top; the.Jeaves alfo at bottom 
are very long, and diminifli .upward, fo as to form a lort 
of pyramid ; thefe are winged) and compofed of many 
large oval pairs of lobes, which are .placed thinly on the 
midrib, and terminated by an odd one; the flowers come 
out in chillers from the wings of each leaf, beginning near 
the root, where the foot-flalks are the longed, and conti¬ 
nuing upward, diminifliing in their number. Thefe are' 
large, of a bright yellow colour, and are fucceeded by cy¬ 
lindrical pods opening in two cells, filled with fquare yel¬ 
low feeds. It flowers in July, and in very favourable fea- 
ibns will perfect feeds in England. It was difeovered in 
the Levant by Tournefort. 
3. Aftragalus capitatus-: caulefcent, heads globular, pe¬ 
duncles very long, leaflets emarginate. This has a peren¬ 
nial root which lends up feveral ereft (talks. It flowers 
the end of July ; and was difeovered by Tournefort in the 
Levant, whence he font the feeds to the Paris garden. 
4. Aftragalus pilofus, or pale-flowered milk-vetch : cau¬ 
lefcent erebt hairy, flowers in (pikes, legumes Tubulate, 
hairy. Root woody, perennial ; ftem a foot or eighteen 
inches high, round, hard, branching. Native of the Va¬ 
lais, by the baths of Leuk, Siberia, Thuringia, and Auflria. 
It flowers from June to Auguft. 
5. Aftragalus fulcatus, or furrowed milk-vetch : cau¬ 
lefcent, erPifl, fmooth, ftriated, ftifif; leaflets linear-lanceo¬ 
late acute, legumes three-fided. Root perennial, woody; 
Items eretl, three feet high. Native of Siberia. 
6. Aftragalus galegiformis, or goat’s-rue-leaved milk- 
vetch : caulefcent ft iff fmooth, flowers in racemes pendu¬ 
lous, legumes three-fided, mucronate at both ends. Root 
perennial; ftems many, upright, more than five feet in 
height, (Linnaeus fays two feet.) It is a native of Siberia. 
Tournefort difeovered it in the Levant, and fent the feeds 
to the royal garden at Paris, whence many of the European 
gardens were fupplied with it. In June or July it flowers, 
and the feeds ripen in autumn. 
7. Aftragalus Chinenfis : caulefcent ftifF fmooth, flowers 
in racemes pendulous, legumes ovate inflated, mucronate 
at both ends. This fpecies refembles the foregoing in its 
ftature and all its parts, differing from it chiefly in its le¬ 
gumes. It is perennial, flowering and ripening feeds the 
fecond year in autumn. The feeds were lent from China 
to Sweden in the year 1760. 
8. Aftragalus onobrychis, or purple-fpiked milk-vetch: 
caulefcent procumbent diffufed, fpikes peduncled, banner 
twice as long as the wings, leaflets linear. This fpecies 
ought regularly to (land in the fecond divifion of the genus 
after No. 29. Native of Auftria. Cultivated here in 1640. 
It flowers in June and July. 
9. Aftragalus uliginofus, or violet-coloured milk-vetch : 
caulefcent almoft upright ; flowers in fpikes; legumes al- 
rr.oft upright, naked, tumid, round-flatted, point reflex. 
It was found by Gmeiin, in the moift meadows of Siberia; 
was introduced in 1775, by M.Thouin; and flowers from 
June to Auguft. 
10. Aftragalus Carolinianus, or Carolina milk-vetch : 
caulefcent upright even, peduncles in fpikes, legumes 
ovate-cylindric, acuminated by the ftyle. Root perennial; 
ftems annual, upright, three feet high. It flowers in July 
and Auguft, but iiniefs the feafon be warm the plants fel- 
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dom ripen their feeds in England. It grows naturally in 
Carolina, whence Mr. Miller received the feeds: but it 
had been cultivated before in the Eltham garden. 
11. Aftragalus afper, or rough milk-vetch: caulefcent 
(tiff, even, rotighifti ; flowers in fpikes on elongated pe¬ 
duncles, legumes oblong. Root perennial, branched; 
ftems annual, two feet hi jin, round, (freaked, leafy, with 
upright branches. It flowers in June and the beginning 
oi'July; at the end of the fame month the pods ripen. 
Cultivated at Vienna from feeds fent from Afiracan. 
II. Stems leafy, diftufe.- 12. Aftragalus Cariad'enfis, or 
woolly milk-vetch : caulefcent diftufe, legumes liibcylih- 
dric mucronate, leaflets almoft naked. This refembles the 
tenth fpecies very much. Root perennial, creeping; ftems 
round, about two feet high. Native of Virginia and Ca¬ 
nada ; according to Mr. Miller, of moft parts of North 
America. It flowers here in July, and the feeds ripen the 
beginning of October. 
13. Aftragalus cicer, or bladdered milk-vetch.: caule¬ 
fcent proftrate, legumes fubglobular, inflated, mucronate, 
hairy. Root thick, fweet;, ftems eighteen inches long, 
and very branching. According to Mr. Miller, the ftems 
are ftriated, and near three feet long ; the leaves are placed 
alternately at two inches diftance; the peduncles are two’ 
inches long, and the flowers in fmail loofe fpikes; each 
cell of the legume contains two or three hard reddifh feeds. 
It flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in autumn. This 
fpecies is recommended to be cultivated’ for the food of 
cattle. It is a native of Italy, Auftria, Switzerland, and 
Germany. Mr. Ray obfervecl it between Geneva and Gex. 
14. Aftragalus microphyllus, or fmail round-podded 
milk-vetch : caulefcent ereft-expanding, leaflets oval, 
calyxes rather tumid, legumes roundifl). This has the 
air of the laft, but is only one-fourth of it in fize. Stem 
fiexuoie, a foot high, not fmooth. Native of Siberia and 
Germany; flowering in June and July. 
15. Aftragalus glycyphyllus, or wild liquorice or liquo¬ 
rice-vetch: caulefcent proftrate, legumes fubtriquetrous 
bowed, leaves oval, longer than the peduncle. Our wild 
liquorice-vetch has the. ftem two feet high and more, 
fmooth, and branched. The leaves are fweet'with a mix¬ 
ture of bitternefs, and do not feem to be agreeable to 
cattle, at lead the plant in its wild (late is left untouched; 
otherwife, this being the larged of the European fpecies, 
it might have been defira'qle to cultivate it. Native of 
moft parts of Europe, in woods, hedges, and paftures, 
efpecially in a calcareous foil. It flowers in June, and the 
feeds ripen in September. In gardens it is apt to fpread 
much at the root. 
16. Aftragalus hamofus, or dvvarLyellow-flowered milk- 
vetch : caulefcent procumbent, legumes Tubulate, recur¬ 
ved, fmooth ; leaflets obcordate, villofe underneath. Root 
annual. It flowers in June, and the feeds ripen in Sep¬ 
tember. Native of Medina and Montpellier. It was culti¬ 
vated here in 1640. 
17. Aftragalus contortuplicatus, or wave-podded milk- 
vetch: caulefcent procumbent, legumes writhed, chan¬ 
nelled, villofe. This is annual, and varies wonderfully in 
fize and height in different foils. It is a native of Siberia; 
and was introduced here in 1783, by Monf. Thouin. 
18. Aftragalus boeticus, or triangular-podded milk- 
vetch: caulefcent procumbent, fpikes peduncled, legumes 
prifmatic, ftraight, three-fided, hooked at top. This alfo 
is annual, and fends out feveral trailing branches near two 
feet long. It flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in au¬ 
tumn. Native of Spain, Portugal, and Sicily. 
19. Aftragalus laxmanni: caulefcent procumbent, fpikes 
elongated, legumes oblong, three-cornered, marked with a 
furrow, mucronate, villofe. Root perennial, branching ; 
ftems branching, lubangular, proftrate, a foot long. It 
flowers in June and July ; and is a native of Siberia. 
20. Aftragalus ftella : caulefcent diftufe, heads pedun¬ 
cled, lateral; legumes ftraight, Tubulate, mucronate. Na¬ 
tive of Montpellier. 
21. Aftragalus fefameus, or ftarry milk-vetch : caule- 
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