Blossom, butterfly-shaped.
Standard longer, sides bent back, the claws as long as the cut.
Wings two, oblong, shorter than the standard.
Keel compressed, as long as the wings, and like them.
Chives. Ten threads, connected, rising upwards. Tips simple.
Pointal. Seed-bud oblong. Shaft simple, ascending. Summit blunt.
Seed-vessel. Pod roundish, covered by the cup, very small, of two valves.
Seeds. One or two.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Anthyllis fruticosa, spinosa; foliis simplicibus; floribus ex cæruleo purpurascentibus.