332 PAPILIONACEAE. [Von. II. 
7. Lathyrus ochroleicus Hook. Cream-colored Vetchling. (Fig. 2221.) 
Lathyrus ochroleucus Hook. Fl. Bor. Am, 1: 
159. 1833. 
Lathyrus glauctfolius Beck, Bot. 90. 1833. 
Perennial, slender, glabrous and slightly 
glaucous; stem somewhat angled, climbing 
or trailing, 1°-2%4° long; stipules broad, 
foliaceous, half-ovate and half-cordate, 8//— 
12’’ long; leaves petioled; leaflets 3-5 pairs, 
thin, pale beneath, ovate or broadly oval, 
acute or obtusish at the apex, rounded at 
the base, 1/-2’ long; tendrils branched; 
peduncles shorter than the leaves; flowers 
5-I0, yellowish white, 7’’-9’/ long; pod 
oblong-linear, sessile, glabrous, 1/-2/ long. 
On river-banks and hillsides, New Bruns- 
wick, N. J. (according to Beck), Pennsylvania 
to New England, Quebec and arctic America, 
west to lowa, Dakota, Washington and British 
Columbia. May-July. 
8. Lathyrus praténsis L. Meadow > NW 
Pea. Yellow Vetchling. (Fig. 2222.) 
Lathyrus pratensis I, Sp. Pl. 733. 1753. ZZ \\ 
Perennial, weak, slender, glabrous or spar- 
ingly pubescent, climbing or straggling, 1°-3° 
long. Stems angled, branching; stipules lan- 
olate, foliaceous, half-sagittate, acuminate, 
6/’-12” long, nearly as large as the leaflets; 
leaves sessile; leaflets a single pair, ob- es 
long or linear-oblong, acute or acutish, mu- 5 ; 
cronulate, 1/-114’ long, 2’’-4’’ wide; tendrils “yy 
simple or branched; racemes exceeding the 7 
leaves; flowers 6-12, yellow, 6’’-8’’ long; pods 
linear, glabrous, 1/-134’ long. 
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In waste places, Maine, New York, Massachu- BS 
setts and Ontario. Also throughout Europe and 
Russian Asia. English names Angleberries, 
Craw-peas, Mouse-pea, Tom Thumb, Yellow 
Tar-fitch. June-Aug. 
38. BRADBURYA Raf. Fl. Ludov. 104. I817. 
[CENTROSEMA Benth. Ann. Mus. Wien, 2: 117. 1838.] 
Slender twining or prostrate vines, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves (rarely 5~-7-folio- 
late), persistent stipules, and large showy axillary racemose or solitary flowers. Calyx 
campanulate, its teeth or lobes nearly equal; standard orbicular, nearly flat, spurred on 
the back near its base, clawed; wings obovate, curved; keel curved. Stamens more or 
less diadelphous (9 and 1); anthers all alike. Style incurved, bearded at the apex around 
the stigma. Pod linear, flattened, nearly sessile, partially septate between the seeds, 2- 
valved, the valves thick-edged, longitudinally finely nerved along their margins. [In honor 
of John Bradbury who travelled in America early in the century. | 
About go species, natives of America. Besides the following, another occurs in the Southern 
States. 
