850 DIADELPHIA. BECANDRIA. Astragalus. 
Dicks. II. S. — E. Bot. 274 —Bay 12. 3— FI. Dan. 614. 
Stems (three to six or nine inches long, E.) weak, as many as six or up¬ 
wards, towards the base lying close to the ground, the heads of flowers 
rise up at some distance from the root, as if without any leaves or stems 
belonging to them. Leafits six to twelve pair, with an odd one elliptical, 
or spear-shaped, hairy, especially on the upper side, opposite. Leaf¬ 
stalks hairy, furrowed. Stipuloe egg-spear-shaped, sessile, in pairs, fringed. 
Fruit-stalks mostly from near the ends of the branches, ascending, larger 
than the leaf-stalks, about as long as the leaves, hairy, hairs white towards 
the base, black above. Flowers five to six, rarely more, in a close head, 
on short pedicles. Floral-leaves oval-spear-shaped, one to each pedicle. 
Calyx beset with black hairs ; teeth short, nearly equal. Blossom bluish 
purple, sometimes white. Woodw. Dr. Afzelius first satisfied me that 
what had been taken for A. arenarius by Hudson, Lightfoot, and Relhan, 
was A. hypoglottis of Linn. Mant. which information is since confirmed 
by specimens received from Professor Thunberg. 
Purple Mountain Milk Vetch or Cock’s-head. A. Danicus. Oed. 
Retz. With. Ed. ii. Sandy and chalky meadows and pastures. Gog- 
magog Hills, Newmarket and Royston Heaths. Ray. About Hazlewood, 
Yorkshire; Pigburn Fields, near Doncaster. Richardson. Hills in the 
King’s Park, Edinburgh; sands of Musselburgh ; Hill of Moncrief, near 
Perth ; and York cascade at the Duke of Athol’s seat at Blair. Lightfoot. 
Side of Bredon Hill, Worcestershire, near the camp. Nash. About 
Thorp-Arch, Yorkshire. Mr. Wood. SwafFham Heath, Norfolk; Hills 
near Dunstable. Mr. Woodward. Coast of Augus-shire, plentiful. 
Mr. Brown. (On the Links at Tynemouth ; Dunstanburgh ; Holy Island; 
and on Ratcliff Crag, Northumberland. Winch. E.) P. June—July. 
A. glycyfhyl'los. Stems prostrate: legumes obscurely triangular, 
incurved : leaves longer than the fruit-stalks : leafits oval. 
Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 203 —FL Dan. 1108— Riv. Tetr. 103, Astragalus — 
Kniph. 3 —Ti'ag. 599 — J. B. ii. 330— Clus. ii. 233. 1— Lob. Obs. 526. 1, 
and Ic. ii. 80. 1— Ger. Em. 1233. 2 - II. Ox. ii. 9. 8. 
Stems (two or three feet long, E.) much branched, smooth. Leaves alter¬ 
nate. Leafits usually in five pairs, with an odd one, mostly opposite, ses¬ 
sile, or on very short foot-stalks, smooth, very entire. Leaf-stalks fur¬ 
rowed above. Fruit-stalks from the bosom of the leaves. Flowers greenish 
yellow, numerous, in a close bunch, on short pedicles. Stipulre awl- 
shaped, one at the base of each pedicle. Woodw. Leaves longer than the 
fruit-stalks. Leafts rather pointed, slightly hairy underneath. Floral- 
leaves very slender, as long as the calyx. Pollen orange-coloured. ( Le¬ 
gume about an inch long. E.) 
(Sweet Milk Vetch. E.) Wild Liquorice. Meadows, pastures and 
ditch-banks, especially in a calcareous soil. About Charlton, (and in a 
wood, near Sceene Farm, Cheriton. Hutchinson, in Smith’s Obs. E.) Kent. 
In the ditch of Northampton Castle. Mr. Wood. Near Diss, Norfolk, 
and Coddenham, Suffolk; in Huntingdonshire. Mr. Woodward. Bay- 
dales, Darlington. Mr. Robson. Many places on the coast between 
Nether Cramond, and Queensferry. Maughan, in Grev. Edin. On the 
banks of Wear, near Durham; and Tyne, above Ovingham. Mr. Winch. 
Oversley and Grafton, Warwickshire ; Cleve Hill. Worcestershire; 
Buck Orchard, Fiords Park, Salop. Pur ton. E.) P. June—July.* 
* (From the resemblance of a cluster of the pods to the fingers of an open hand, 
this plant has been called Ladies fingers; or Crow-toes from their fancied similitude 
