ANTHYLLIS montana.
Mountain Kidney-vetch.
Natural Order. Leg umin o sæ. J uss. g en .3 4 5 .
D iv V. (P A P l t lO N A C E J E . ) Corolla irregularis papilio-
nacea. Stamina decem diadelpha. Legumen uniloculare biv&
lv0« • I» A N T H Y L L IS . Calyx ventricosus 5-dentatus inæqualis
persistens. Corolla vexillum alis et carinâ longius. Stamina
basi monadelpha. Legumen parvum 1-3-spermum, calyce tectum.
Caulis in Vulneraria T. herbaceus, in cater is frutescens,
ramis Erinaceæ numerosis suboppositis apice pungenltbus ; hujus
folia simplicia, caterarum ternata aut sapius impari-pinnata ;
stipula in plurimis ima petiola adnata, in paucis subnulla;
pedunculi qlomeratim multiflori, axillares aut sapius terminales.
HÙC refert D. Lamarck Ebenum L. ah Ebeno Ugno dwersissimum,
cui calyx 5-aristatus aristis plumosis corolla paulo longioribus,
a la minima, semen 1 villosum, catera Anihyllidibus frutescen-
tibus similia. Juss. gen. 355.
A. montana, herbácea, foliis pinnatis capitulo terminali
secundo, floribus obliquatis. Willden. sp. p i 3.
A^ffiyUis montana. Jacq. austr. 3. p . 17.
p. 292. Lam. ill. t. 615. / . 5. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 282.
Perennial. Stems numerous, prostrate, much
branched ; branches short, ascending, villous. Leaves
pinnate, canescent, thickly clothed with soft white
villous hairs; leaflets 16 to 30 opposite lanceolate,
acute, broad at the base, terminal one broadest, obovate.
Petioles channelled on the upper side, and coiyex on
the lower. Stipules connected to the base, and forming
a part of the petioles. Peduncles cylmdiical,
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