FABACEAE 687 
L. direi dr Plant po with 
de 
several or many decumbent or ending 
bra ; dm. g: leaflets 35 blades 
bovate to elliptie, 6—1 lo calyx 
7 a 
8-9 mm. long; s subulate, the larger 
ones as long as the tube or nearly so: 
corolla bright yellow or partly reddish; 
standard 11—13 mm. long; blade cuneate to 
reniform: pod 2-2.5 em. long, the body 
narrowly linear, with a slender-subulate 
dm oii 's-roor TREFOIL,  CAT-CL 
ne D-HONEYSUCKLE. ) — Waste-places and 
ballast Coa ed Plain, Atlantie and Gulf 
States. Nat. of Eurasia 
13. ACMISPON Raf. Annual or perennial herbs or woody plants. Leaf- 
lets 3, pinnate, or solitary. Flowers er axillary. Calyx-lobes nearly 
equal, usually elongate. Corolla usually pinkish; standard with a broad blade 
and a short claw: other petals with distinct PACA the blades slightly auricled: 
keel-petals scythe-shaped.—Six or 8 species, ee in western North America. 
Calyx-lobes less than twice as long as the tube, not surpassing wings. 
A. Heller 
Calyx-lobes fully twice as long as the tube, surpassing wings. 24. A 
—6 A 
! : osac 
2 a Piedmont, S. 
N. o 
2. A. americanum (Nutt.) Rydb. Plant 2-6 
tall, the branches villous: leaflets 8—25 
long; blades mostly elliptie to ovate: 
e tube densely pubescent: claws of the 
keel-petals about 14 as long as the blade.— 
Dry soil, various provinces, Tex. to Calif., 
Wash., and Minn., eastward to Ala.—Sum.-fall. 
14. BONAVERIA Seop. Herbs with diffuse branches and nearly glabrous 
foliage. Leaflets several, pinnate: blades entire. Flowers in peduncled heads. 
ea oe he lobes about as long as 
tube, 2 upper ones decidedly united. 
em Sd standard broad, d than 
the other petals, clawed: wings longer than 
the incurve eel. Pod longa faleate, 
flat, slender-beaked.—One spec 
= B. aig rie Scop. Plants a 1 
tal or less: leaflets 1-2.5 long; 
blades — elliptic- Bun po 
r tru and apieulate at the apex: pe- 
d ues near the base: calyx 2.5-3 
mm. long; pins of ipd vus E oe 
aeuminate: standard o 6-8 long: 
pod 6-9 as beet the n beak hooked 
