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WHITE TO GREEN 



INDIAN VETCH 



As/raga/iis aboriginoruDi. Pea Family 



Stems: finely glabrate, erect, branched. Leaves: leaflets linear, obtuse : 

 stipules ovate, acute, foliaceous. Flowers: white, tinged with mauve in 

 loose racemes; peduncles longer than the leaves ; calyx blackish-pubescent, 

 its teeth subulate. Fruit : pods semi-elliptic. 



One of the least attractive of the Vetches. It has a long 

 yellow root which is collected in the spring by the Stoney and 

 Cree Indians as an article of food. The leaves are whitish 

 and rather silkv, and the flowers are chiefly noticeable by 

 reason of their dark-hued hairy calyx. 



ARCTIC VETCH 



Fhaca .liiicricaiia. Pea Family 



Stems: erect, nearly simple, tall, leafy, subglabrous. Leaves: leaflets 

 .seven-to-nine paired, ovate, and elliptic-oblong; peduncles equalling the 

 leaves. Flowers: white, in a loose raceme. Fruit: pods oblong, acute at 

 each end, black-hairy. 



A handsome plant, growing one to two feet high, with many 

 leaves, and big white-flowered heads. It has no tendrils, but 

 grf)ws very stiffly with thick upright stalks. 



WHITE VETCH 



Lathyrus Oilnolcmiis. Pea Family 



Stems: slender, trailing. Leaves: leaflets in three to four pairs, ovate, 

 distinctly petioled; stipules .semi-cordate, entire. Flowers: seven-to-ten 

 flowered, ochroleucus; tendrils branched. Fruit: pods oblong-linear, 

 .sessile, glabrous. 



No one wandei ing in the summer woods can mistake tliis 

 dainty, delicate White Vetch, which trails along the ground, 

 climbs over fallen trees, and twines its tiny branching tendrils 

 about the shrubs beside wliic h it grows. The flowers resemble 

 those of the common garden green pea. 



