3i8 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



30. Milk-pea 



Gal actio glabella. — Family, Pulse. Color, purple. Leaves, 

 of 3 oblong to elliptical leaflets. Time, August. 



Calyx, 4 -divided. Corolla, papilionaceous. The pod is 

 flat, hairy, and with several seeds. There are also ripened a 

 few subterranean, fleshy pods. The flowers, large and hand- 

 some, are in irregular racemes, 4 to 8 together. A prostrate 

 plant, with nearly smooth stems. 



Range, from southern New York to Florida, and westward to 

 Mississippi. 



31. Wild Lupine 



Lupin us perennis. — Family, Pulse. Color, vivid blue. 

 Leaves, compound, palmately cut into 7 to 11 leaflets. Lime, 

 May, June. 



Calyx, deeply 2-divided. Corolla, papilionaceous. A showy 

 flower in long, large racemes. Stems, 2 feet high, including 

 pod, are hairy. 



Along the sides of railroads and everywhere edging the woods, 

 in its season great bunches of the lupine may be seen — patches 

 of blue in the midst of clumps of the pretty, singular leaves. 

 From Massachusetts to the Gulf. 



32. W^hite Avens 



Geum album. — Fatnily, Rose. Color, white. Leaves, on 

 the stem, toothed or 3-divided or lobed. Root-leaves vari- 

 ously divided into 3 to 5 leaflets, sometimes with one large, 

 round leaflet and several smaller ones below. Time, May 

 to August. 



Calyx, 5 -divided, with bractlets between the divisions. 

 Petals, z^. Stamens, \x\-Ax\y. Achcnes, xwwwoxowi. "^Yh^ styles oi 

 the pistils are jointed, the upper part hairy. The receptacle 

 upon which the achenes are clustered is densely hairy. A 

 plant about 2 feet high, common. 



