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BIABELPHIA. BECANBRIA. Astragalus. 849 
HEBYS'ARUM.^ Keel broad and blunt: legume compressed, 
jointed, one seed in each joint. 
H. ono'bryciiis. Leaves winged: legume with one seed, prickly: 
wings long as the calyx : stem elongated. 
Dicks. H. S. — Kniph. S—Jacq. Austr. 352 — E. Bot. 96 — Riv. Tetr. 2. 
Onobrycliis — J. B. ii. 335. 2 — Ger. 1063. 1 — Clus. ii. 232. 2 — Dod. 548. 2 
—Lob. Obs. 527. 1, and Ic. ii. 81. 1 —Ger. Em. 1243.1 —Park. 1082. 1. 
(A very showy plant. E.) Stems cylindrical, scored, (two or three feet 
long. E .); at first trailing, but when in flower ascending. Stipules in 
pairs, oval-spear-shaped, terminated by a long point, membranous at the 
edges, sometimes fringed with a few hairs. Leaf-stalks furrowed above, 
slightly hairy. Leqfits eight to ten pair, with an odd one ; those of the 
lower leaves elliptical, of the upper spear-shaped, or strap-spear-shaped, 
all with projecting points at the end, the uppermost with the mid-rib 
beneath and edges fringed. Fruit-stalks long, slightly hairy. Bunches 
long, closely tiled upwards. Flowers numerous. Floral-leaves awh 
shaped, longer than the pedicles. Calyx one fourth the length of the 
blossom. Woodw. Calyx , segments spear-shaped, hairy, the two upper 
distant, the lowermost the shortest. Blossom standard egg-shaped, with 
a little tooth in the notch at the end, red in the middle, with eight or ten 
deeper coloured lines, white at the edges, and mottled with red, the lines 
on the outside fainter, but more numerous; wings very small, not half 
the length of the calyx, spear-shaped, red and white ; keel reddish, with 
deeper coloured lines. Legume oblong, hairy. 
Saintfoin. Cock’s-head. (Welsh: Codawg. E.) Meadows and pas¬ 
tures, particularly in chalky soils, or magnesian limestone. Burnham, 
Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Gogmagog Hills, near Cambridge. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. Wick Cliffs, near Bath. Mr. Swayne. (On Harton-Down Hill, 
and in fields near Ryhope, Durham. Mr. Winch ; from which the farmers, 
who in that neighbourhood cultivate a sterile calcareous soil, might take 
a profitable hint. About Grafton and Bilsley, Warwickshire. Purton. 
In a park between Pentraeth and Llanddyfnan, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
Hoad side about half way between Teignmouth and Torquay. E.) 
Wilts, and the higher grounds of Gloucestershire, frequent, both wild 
and cultivated. P. June—July.f 
ASTRAG'ALUS.J Caps, generally two-celled; gibbous : the 
solitary filaments cylindrical. 
(1) Stems trailing , leafy. 
A. iiypoglot'tis. Stem prostrate: flowers in roundish heads : legumes 
egg-shaped, compressed, hairy, grooved, the point reflexed: lea- 
fits blunt. 
* (From t hg, sweet; and apov t perfume; certain species exhaling an agreeable scent. 
E.) 
+ This is cultivated like clover for feeding cattle, and is particularly advantageous in dry 
hilly situations, and chalky soils, (being equally valuable both green and in hay. In the 
south,of England, Mr. Salisbury states it is the life and support of the upland farmer. 
Mr. Sinclair proves that for sheep especially, it is more economical than turnips. For 
various details respecting its uses and culture, see Young’s Annals, Hort. Gram., &c. E.) 
$ (From ao-TpuyoiKos, a bone of the foot; which the legume of this plant somewhat 
resembles. E.) 
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