. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 4. Geoprumnon tennesseense () Rydb. Tennessee :Milk ^'etch. Fig- 2533- Astragalus tennesseensis A. Gray ; Chapm. Fl. S. States. 98. i860. Astragalus platlensis var. tennesseensis A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 193. 1864. G. tennesseense Rydb. in Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 615. 1903. Stems erect or ascending from a deep root; plant villous with long whitish hairs. Leaflet
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 4. Geoprumnon tennesseense () Rydb. Tennessee :Milk ^'etch. Fig- 2533- Astragalus tennesseensis A. Gray ; Chapm. Fl. S. States. 98. i860. Astragalus platlensis var. tennesseensis A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 193. 1864. G. tennesseense Rydb. in Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 615. 1903. Stems erect or ascending from a deep root; plant villous with long whitish hairs. Leaflets 15-31 > oblong, or linear-oblong, obtuse, or emarginate, nearly glabrous above, 6"-io" long, 2"-4" wide; stipules lanceolate, oval, or ovate- lanceolate; peduncles about equalling the leaves ; racemes short, several-many-flowered; flowers about 10" long; pod oblong, conic, fleshy, i' long or rather more, strongly wrin- kled,' at least when dry, its summit strongly curved. 26. ASTRAGALUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 755. i753- Herbs, sometimes woody, mostly with odd-pinnate leaves of several or many leaflets, and purple violet white or yellow flowers in spikes or racemes, or rarely umbellate or solitary. Stipules present. tubular, its teeth nearly equal. Petals clawed; standard erect, ovate or oblong; wings oblong; keel obtuse, about equalling the wings. Stamens diadelphous; anthers all alike. Ovary sessile or stipitate; ovules sc. Pod sessile or stalked, dehiscent, l-2-celled, very different in different species and affording the best characters in classification, accepted as generic by some authors. [Greek name of some leguminous plant.] St abundant in northern Asia. In and southern United States. Type At least 1000 species, of wide geographic distribution, addition to the following, at. least 175 others occur in the wesi species : Astragalus Onobrychis L. * Pod 2"-celled. Plant densely villous-pubescent all over. i. A. mollissimus. Plants glab
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