PEA FAMILY 



The dainty trailing Coronilla, an escape from early 

 gardens, has estabhshed itself upon mountain road- 

 sides in both New York and New England, and displays 

 a very beautiful array of pink and white balls upon 

 the surface of a matted bed of pale green vetch-Hke 

 leaves. 



SHOWY TICK-TREFOIL. CANADIAN TICK- 

 TREFOIL 



Meihomia Canadensis. Desmodium Canadinsis 



Meihomia, in honor of Dr. Brandus Meibom. Desmo- 

 dium from desmos, Greek, a bond or chain, in allusion to 

 the jointed pods. 



Perennial. Native. The most showy plant of the 

 Tick-Trefoil group, with many Pea-like rose-purple blos- 

 soms, crowded in racemes which either terminate the 

 tall, stout, leafy stem or are borne on stems springing 

 from the axils of its upper leaves. Thickets and river 

 banks or banks of lakes and ponds. New Brunswick 

 to Manitoba, south to North CaroHna and Missouri. 

 July-September. 



Stem. — Erect, stout, hairy, leafy, two to four feet high. 



Leaves. — Crowded on the stem, three-foHate, the 

 lower leaves petioled, the upper nearly sessile. Leaflets 

 oblong-ovate or lanceolate; apex obtuse with a little 

 spiny point, margin entire. Stipules linear, pointed, 

 very small, mostly persistent. 



Flowers. — Papilionaceous, about three-fourths of an 

 inch long, crowded on terminal or axillary racemes, 

 conspicuous, rose-purple. 



Calyx. — Tube short, somewhat two-lipped, reddish. 



Corolla. — Standard ovate; wings obliquely oblong; 

 keel obtuse. 



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