2717.
ASTRAGALUS alpinus.
Procumbent Milk Vetch.
D IAD E LPH IA Decandria.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla, keel blunt.
Stamens diadelphous. Legume bilocular, or half-
bilocular, the lower suture being inflected.—DeC.
Spec. Char. Stems procumbent. Branches and both
sides of the numerous ovato-elliptic leaflets ad-
pressedly pubescent. Stipules ovate, sub-acute,
unconnected with the petioles, sub-coalescing at
the base opposite to the leaves. Flowers spicato-
capitate, nodding. Peduncle in fruit longer than
the leaves. Legumes stipitate, pendulous, prismatic,
attenuated at both extremities, covered
with black hairs, about two-seeded.
S yn. Astragalus alpinus. Linn. FI. Suec. ed. 2. 661.
Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1070. Syst. Veget. 568. Jacq.
Collect, v. 1. 323. Villars, PI. Dauph. v. 3. 464.
Lam. Diet. Bot. v. 1. 315. Roth, FI. Germ,
v. 1. 312. v. 2. Pt. II. 194. Host. Synops. FI.
Just. 409. Pallas, Astrag. 4L t.32. Willd. Sp.
PI. v. 3 .1297. Suter, FI. Helvet.v. 2. 103. Wahl.
FI. Lapp. n. 350. FI. Helvet. 131. FI. Suec. 464.
Pursh, FI. Am. Sept. v. 2.472. Nutt. Gen. v. 2.
99. Brown, App. to Parry’s 1st Voyage, 20.
Hooker, App. to Parry’s 2nd Voyage, 395.
A. alpinus, foliis viciæ, ramosus et procumbens,
flore glomerato oblongo albo cceruleo. Scheuchz.
Itin. Alp. v. 3. 509. f. 1. OEd. Fl. Dan. v. 1. 10.
n. 51.
A. alpinus minimus. Linn. FI. Lapp. 267. t. 9. ƒ. 1.
Linnean Herbarium.
A. pedunculis folio longioribus, foliis laxe spicatis