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* Stamens 10, separate (Fig. 355). Petals 5, pea-like. Pod inflated, {Baptisia) False-Indigo. 



II. BRASILETTO Subfamily. Corolla sometimes papilionaceous or nearly so, but then with 

 the standard within the other petals, generally more cr less irregular; the petals overlapping one an- 

 other in the bud. Stamens 10 or fewer, separate. 



Trees, with simple round-heart-shaped leaves, but appearing rather later than the papilio- 

 naceous purple-red flowers, CCercis) Eed-bud. 



Herbs, with abruptly pinnate leaves and ^-ellow flowers, not papilionaceous, ( Cassia) Senna. 



Trees, with the leaves, or some of them, more than once compound. Flowers dioecious 

 or polygamous, not at all papilionaceous. 

 Stamens 10, and petals 5, on the top of the funnel-shaped tube of the calyx. Pods 



broad and hard. Leaves very large, twice-pinnate, ( Gynmodadus) Kentucky Coffee-tkee. 

 Stamens and petals 3 to 6, on the bottom of an open calyx. Pods long and flat, hav- 

 ing a sweet juice or pulp inside. Leaves, some of them once pinnate, others twice 

 pinnate. Tree with compound thorns, ( Gleditschia) Honey-Locust. 



in. ^n^IOSA Subfamily. Flowers very small, in heads or spikes, regular: petals edge to edge in 

 the bud, and sometimes united below. Leaves generally twice or thrice pinnate. 



Stamens very many and long, yellow or yellowish. (Cult, in greenhouses: some species 



are Avild far South), * Acacia. 



Stamens 5. Petals separate, whitish. Pod smooth, [Desmantlais) Desmanthus. 



Stamens 4 or 5. Petals united into a cup, rose-color. Pod bristly, flat, breaking uj) into 



joints. Leaves closing suddenly wlien touched, {Mimosa) "*■ Sensitive-i'lant. 



Stamens 10 or 12. Petals united into a cup, rose-color. Pod narrow, rough-prickly. 



Leaves rather sensitive. S, {Schrdnkia) SENsixivE-IjiiiEr.. 



Locust-tree. Rohinia. 



Flowers show}', in hanging axillary racemes. Stamens diadelphous. Pod flat, several-seeded. 



.Leaves odd-pinnate. — Trees, wild in tlie Southern, cult, in tlio Northern States. Fl. in early summer. 



1 Co:\iMON Locust-tree. Tree with a pair of spines for stipules; flowers Avhite, in slender racemes, 



sweet-scented; pod smooth. R. Pseiidachcia. 



2. Clammy L. Tree with clammy twigs; racemes thick ; calyx purplish; pod rough. R. viscosa. 



3. Bkistly L. or PiOSE-Acacia. Shrub, with bristly stalks and twigs; flowers large, rose-colored. 



Ji. li isj)ida. 

 ' Clover (or Trefoil). Trifullum. 



Flowers many in a head. Calyx persistent, its teeth very slender. Corolla withering away or per- 

 sistent after flowering; the petals grown together more or less into a tube below, and the diadelphous 

 fitamens united with it. Pod generally shorter than the calyx, thin, only one- or few-seeded. Low 

 herbs: leaves Avith 3 leaflets, the stipules adhering to the base of the footstalk (Fig. 13G). 



1. Red Clover. Leaflets obovate or oval, with a pale spot on the upper side; flowers rose-red, in a 



dense head with leaves underneath it. Fields, cultivated. T. praimse. 



2. PjUFFALo C. Leaflets obovate, toothed : flowers rose-colored, pedicelled, in an umbel-like long- 



stalked liead. Prairies, &c., W. & S. T. rejlcxum. 



3. White C. Low, smooth, creeping; leaflets obcordate or notched; flowers Avhite, in a loose umbel- 



like head, raised on a long stalk. Fields, d'C, everywhere. T. repens. 



