. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. FABACEAE. Vol. II. 4. Geoprumnon tennesseense (A. Gray) Rydb. Tennessee Milk Vetch. Fig- 2533- Astragalus tennesseensis A. Gray ; Chapm, Fl. S. States, 98. i860. Astragalus plattensis 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 lo
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. FABACEAE. Vol. II. 4. Geoprumnon tennesseense (A. Gray) Rydb. Tennessee Milk Vetch. Fig- 2533- Astragalus tennesseensis A. Gray ; Chapm, Fl. S. States, 98. i860. Astragalus plattensis 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. On hillsides, Illinois to Tennessee, Alabama Missouri. March-May. 26. ASTRAGALUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 755. 1753. 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. Calyx 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 '^. Pod sessile or stalked, dehiscent, i-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.] At least 1000 species, of wide geographic distribution, most abundant in northern Asia. In addition to the following, at least 175 others occur in the western and southern United States. Type species : Astragahts Onobrychis L. *
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