32 WHITE TO GREEN 



INDIAN VETCH 



Astragalus aboriginorum. 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 silky, and the flowers are chiefly noticeable by 

 reason of their dark-hued hairy calyx. 



ARCTIC VETCH 



Phaca Americana. 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 

 grows very stiffly with thick upright stalks. 



WHITE VETCH 



Lathyrus ochroleiicus. 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 wandering in the summer woods can mistake this 

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

 cUmbs over fallen trees, and twines its tiny branching tendrils 

 about the shrubs beside which it grows. The flowers resem.ble 

 those of the common garden green pea. 



