POPULAR FLORA. 145 



2. Cai:()mna V. Smooth; leaflets 8 to 12, oblong; flowers man}-, whitish, tipped with blue, rather 



scattered on the peduncle, in spring. Bunks, Sec, common. V. Ctn-oliniaiia, 



3. 4^^^'='<^'-^^' ^^' Smootli; leaflets 10 to 14, oval or oblong, very veiny; (lowers 4 to 8 on the pe- 



duncle, purplish or bluish, in summer. N. V. Ameriacad^ 



* * Annual: flowers large, one or two together, sessile in the axils of the leaves. 



4. Common' Takk. Leaflets 10 to 14, narrow; flowers violet-purple. Cultivated fields, V. BnCiva* 



Bean* Phasholus. 



Keel of the corolla (with the included stamens and style) twisted or coiled, so as to form n nr><r, of 

 one or more turns of a spiral coil. Stamens diadeiphous. I'od flat or flattish, several-seeded. Seeds 

 fl;ittis!i. Plants twining more or less, in one cultivated variety short and erect. Leaves of tln-ca 

 leaflets, tlie end leallet some way above the other two (i. e. pinnate of 3 leaflets): and they have siqxdi 

 or little stipules to tlie leaflets. Fi. summer. 



* Wi!d species: mostly found South and West. 



1. ri:i:KxxtAL Bean. Climbing high; leaflets round-ovate, pointed; flowers in long paniclcd racemfa, 



purj)lc; pods curved. Wooded banks, &c. J'. pa^^mnA, 



2. TiiAiLiNG HiCAX. Annual, spreading on the ground ; leaflets 3-lobed or angled ; (lowers Cnw^ 



crowded at the end of a long erect peduncle, purplisli; pods narrow, straight. Sandy places. 



P. dlctirsiJollus„ 

 * * Cultivated Beans. 



3. Common or Kidney Bean. Known by its straight pods, pointed by the hardened lower part of tho 



style, and tiie tliick rather kidney-shaped seeds. Th,o Dwat.f or Busii Bean is a low ami 

 small variety which does not twine. The Scaueet Klnnei: is a free climbii.g variety, gen- 

 eral! v red-Howered. P. vulgaris. 



4. Lima Bean. Known bv its broad and flat, curved or scymitar-shaped pods, with fev.' and large flat 



seeds. The Civet Bean is a small variety of it. P.lajulltis, 



False-Indigo. Bnptisla. 

 Flowers generally in racemes. Standard erect, with the sides rolled back: keel-petals nearly pcpa- 

 rate and straight, like the wings. Stamens 10, separate! Pod stalked in the calyx, bladdery, but 

 ratlier thick-wallcd, pointed, containing many small seeds. — Perennial herbs, erect and branched, 

 with palmate leaves of 3 leaflets. — The commonest arc the following: — 



1. Yellow False-Indigo. Glaucous, bushy-branclied; leaves almost sessile; leaflets small, wcrlge- 



obovate; flowers few at the ends of the panicled branchlets, yellow, produced all tummer. Dry 

 grounds, common. B. iinctbrlu 



2. Blue F. Tali and stout; stipules lance-shaped, as long as the petiole; leaflets v.-edge-oblong; 



flowers many, large, blue, in a long raceme, in spring or early summer. (Fig, 354, 355.) Kich 

 soil; common W. tS; S. and also cultivated in gardens. B. austrulis, 



Eenna. Cdssla. 



Calyx of 5 sepals. Petals 5, spreading, not papilionaceous, but a little irregular. Stamens 10, but 

 those on one side of the blossom commonly shorter, or without anthers; tho anthers open :it the top 

 by two cliiidcs or holes. Pods many-seeded. — Leaves simply and abruptly pinnate. The commoa 

 tpecies are herbs, with yellow flowers, in summer. * 



