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THE PEA FAMILY. 



PAETICULAR ANALYSIS. • 



A. — Plant more or less thorny. 

 Flowers pink. 



Stem prostrate, shrubby, thorny towards the close 

 of summer ; lower leaves trifoliolate, upper 



ones simple 1. Trailing Rest-haheow. 



Flowers yellow. 



Leaves ovate or lanceolate ; upper branches thorn- 

 less ; thorns very fine and sharp ; pod larger 



than the calj-x 6 . Needle-whin. 



No flat leaves whatever, the whole being developed 

 in the condition of thorns; pod scarcely 

 longer than the calyx. 

 Calyx very hairj- ; plant two to five feet high. ... 2. Common Ftteze. 

 Calyx nearly glabrous ; plant low-growing, and| 3. Dwahf Autumnal 



nearly procumbent J Fukze. 



B. — Plant destitute of thorns. 

 I. — Leaves all, or nearly all, simple ; lower ones sometimes trifoliolate. 

 All the leaves simple and lanceolate ; flowers in ter- 

 minal, rather close, clusters 5. Dyees' Geeenweed. 



Lower leaves trifoliolate ; flowers axillary and soUtary. 



Flowers pink ; stems prostrate 1. Teazling Rest-haeeow. 



Flowers yellow, brilliant; stems upright; branches 



long, straight, green, smooth, and pliant . . 4. Common Beoom. 

 II. — Leaves all compound. 

 * Leaves with tendrils at the extremity. 

 Leaflets only two. 



Flowers in bunches ; pods black 7. Yellow Vetchling. 



Leaflets numerous. 

 Flowers axillary and sessile, or nearly so. 



Flowers mostly in fours, dull purple ; leaflets 



gradually smaller upwards ; pods black 8. Hedge Vetch. 



Flowers only one or two together. 

 Flowers mostly in pairs. 



Leaflets oblong; flowers particoloured 11. Foddee Vetch. 



Leaflets linear; flowers crimson 12. Naeeow-leaved Ceim- 



soN Vetch, 



Flowers solitary, crimson l;5. Bobaet's Vetch. 



Flowers in long-stalked clusters. 



Flowers numerous, beautiful, and conspicuous. 

 Flowers deep violet, in long, slender, unilateral 



clusters 9. Pueple-tufted Vetch, 



Flowers white, exquisitely pencilled with lilac. . 10. Pencilled Wood 



Vetch. 

 Flowers few, very minute, pale blueish. 



Stalks many-flowered ; leaflets obtuse ; pods 



hairy and two-seeded 14. Common Taee. 



Stalks two-flowered ; leaflets pointed ; pods 



smooth and four-seeded 15. Smooth-podded Taee. 



