llii 



GARDEN BOTANY. 



ORDER LEGUMINOS.3D. PULSE FAMILY. 



Manual, p. 88. Many are cultivated for food or ornament. Some of them 

 are in the Manual, and have only to be led up to by the following easy key. 



1. Flowers papilionaceous ; the standard covering the other petals in tJie bud. 

 # Stamens monadelphnus or diadelphous. 



L*aves digitate, of 5 to 15 leaflets; flowers in an erect raceme. . 1. LUPINUS. 



J /eaves of 3 leaflets, or the uppermost sometimes simple. 

 Shrubs or undershrubs, with yellow and monadelphous flowers. 

 Flowers single or in pairs in the axils of small leaves aloug the 



rigid, upright, angled, green branches : style long and coiled. 2. SAIIOTHAMNUS 

 Flowers in racemes : style subulate. ..... 3. CYT1SUS. 



Shrubs or plants with a thick and woody base, with large red 



flowers, the wing-petals wanting or minute. ... 4. ERYTIIRINA. 



Herbs, not twining nor disposed to twine. 



Leaves sweet-scented ; pods short and wrinkled. Man. p. 93. MELILOTUS. 



Leaves not sweet-scented. 



Flowers capitate : pod small, enclosed in the calyx. Man. p. 92. TRIFOTJUM. 



Flowers in a raceme or spike, or few : pods curved or coiled. 6. MEDICAGO. 



Herbs with the stems twining or disposed to twine. 

 Keel with the included stamens and style coiled. ... 6. PHASEOLU8. 



Keel incurved, but not coiled ........ 7. DOLICIIOS. 



Leaves pinnate : leaflets serrate. ....... 8. CICER. 



Leaves pinnate : leaflets entire, as in almost all the order. 

 With a tendril, or a rudiment of one, at the end of the common petiole. 

 Style flattened, hairy on the upper side ...... 9. LATIIYRU3. 



Style filiform : stignia villous or hairy. .... 10. VICIA. 



Style filiform: stigma naked: pod 2 -seeded. . . 11. ERVUM. 



Without any tendril. 

 Leaflets only 4, none at the end ..... .12. ARA.C1IIS. 



Leaflets an odd number, one of them terminal. 



Ovary and small indehiscent pod 1-seeded. Herb. . . 13. ONOBRYCH18. 

 Ovary apd pod 1 - 2-seeded : petal only one. Shrubs. Man. p. 95. AMORl'UA. 



Ovary and pod several-seeded. 

 Flowers umbelled or capitate ; pod narrow. ... 14. COUONILLA. 



Flowers raceined. 

 Herbs : keel spurred on each side ...... 15. IND1GOFE11A. 



Shrubs or trees, with hanging or drooping racemes, 

 Of few yellow flowers: pod inflated 



16. 



COLUTKA. 



Of many white or rose-colored flowers : pod fl:it. Man. p. 96. ROHIXIA. 

 Woody twining plants with lilac or purple flowers. . . 17. W 1ST ARIA. 



# # Stamens distinct. 



Tree, with pinnate leaves and hanging white flowers. Man. p. 107. CLADRASTIS. 



Perennial herbs, with palmate leaves of only 8 leaflets. Man. p. 107. BAPTISIA. 



2. Flowers not papilionaceous : 



Appearing papilionaceous, but the standard covered by the other 



petals : tree, with simple and cordate leaves. . Man. p. 108. CERC1S. 



Nut at all papilionaceous. 



Leaves simply pinnate : flowers yellow, perfect : stamens 10 or 



sometimes fewer ....... Man. p. 108. CASSIA. 



Leaves some simply, others twice pinnate: flowers polygamous, 



greenish, in spikes : stamens 3 to 6 : a thorny tree. Man. p. 109. GLEDIT3CHIA. 



