848 DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Hippocrepis. 
game slightly compressed, bowed inwards. St. Leafits set with very firie 
silvery hairs. Blossom , standard very slightly notched at the end, marked 
with crimson lines, the claw yellowish brown ; wings white, with a red¬ 
dish tinge; keel pale straw colour. Seeds six. A beautiful plant, and 
not uncommon on dry heaths and downs ; (varying from one inch to a 
foot in the extent of its branches: and remarkable for its seed-vessel, 
( lomentum of Willdenow, as being articulate, each cell containing one 
seed, and separating transversely at the joint) resembling a bird’s foot. 
Var. 2. Flowers entirely yellow. Each leafit with a dark purple blotch. 
About Sidmouth. 
Bird’s-foot* (Welsh: Troed yr aderyn cuffredin. E.) Sandy banks, 
road sides, heaths and pastures. Near Lichfield. Mr. Whately. Winson 
Green, near Birmingham. Stokes. Brandon Hill, Bristol. Mr. Swayne. 
Near Knaresborough. Mr. Robson. (Park quarry, Liverpool. Dr. 
Bostock. Moushold Heath, near Norwich, and elsewhere in Norfolk. 
Mr. Woodward. Dorking, Ryegate, Hampstead, and Sunderland Ballast 
Hiils. Mr. Winch. Kinver, Staffordshire. Coleshill Heath, Warwick¬ 
shire ; Malvern, Worcestershire. Purton. In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
North Queensferry. Dr. Graham. Grev. Edin. E.) Washwood Heath, 
near Birmingham. A. May—Sept. 
HIPPOCRE'PIS.* Seed-vessel many-celled, compressed, in¬ 
curved, with several notches along one of the seams. 
H. como'sa. Legume on fruit-stalks, crowded, bowed, serpentine. 
rlacq. Austr. 431— Riv. Tetr. 97. 2, Ferrum equinum comosum — E. Bot. 31 
— Col. Ecphr. 301. 1— Dicks. II. S. — Park. 1092. 4— H. Ox. ii. 10. 3—« 
Ger. 1056. 2 —J. B. ii. 348. 1. 
Stems several, ascending, a span high, smooth. Stipulce rather spreading. 
Leafits fifteen, oval-strap-shaped, expanding, rather firm in texture. 
Fruit-stalks between angular and scored, longer than the leaves, from 
the bosom of the upper leaves two or three. Umbel orbicular, with 
eight flowers. Blossoms standard somewhat arched, striated, underneath, 
not bent back at the edges except at the base, which is indented, forming 
a small cavity on each side. Linn. Root thick, woody. Stipidce in pairs, 
oval, blunt. Leafits seldom more than six pairs, opposite, heart-shaped, 
or elliptical and indented. Flowers six to ten, disposed in a circle round 
the summit of the fruit-stalk, after flowering bent down. Pedicles 
slightly hairy, very short. Woodw. Plant sometimes quite free from hairs. 
Blossom dull yellow, with brownish streaks. (. Legumes above an inch 
long. E.) 
Tufted Horse-shoe Vetch. Meadows and pastures in calcareous soil. 
Chalky grounds about Gogmagog Hills; between Northfleet and Grave¬ 
send ; Kent, Surrey, and Bedfordshire. Limestone rocks, about Malham, 
Settle, Gigglewick, Kilnsay, and Wharf, Yorkshire. South side of 
Bredon Hill, Worcestershire, below the camp. Nash. Swaffham, Nor¬ 
folk. Mr. Woodward. On the edge of the precipice all along Shellwith 
Hill. Mr. Jackson. On Wick Cliffs in great plenty, and on St. Vincent’s 
Rocks. Rev. G. Swayne. On the high grounds North of Marlborough. 
(Under Dover cliffs. Mr. W. Christy. On Cronkley Fell, at an elevation 
of above 1,500 feet. Mr. Winch. About Dundonald castle, near Ayr. 
Mr. Reid. Hook.. Scot. E.) P. May—Aug. 
* (From Wop, a horse j and upsms, a shoe j to which the figure of the legume may be 
compared. E.) 
