78 Pulse (Leguminbscz) 



Fruit, rounded, red, acid. A dry drupe. 



Found, widely distributed north and south on dry open 



ground, and in thickets. 



A straggling shrub, two to six feet high, with leaves 

 of a pleasant, aromatic odor when crushed. 



13. Family LEGUMINOS^. (Pulse Fam.) 

 Genus AMORPHA, L. (False Indigo, etc.) 



From a Greek word meaning " without form," because of the absence of a part 

 of its petals. 



Fig. 27. False Indigo. A. fmcticbsa, L. 



Flowers, irregular, violet or purple, crowded in clustered 

 terminal spikes. Petal, one. Stamens, ten, united 

 at the base. Sepals, five. Seed-case, one, one-celled, 

 free, two-seeded, longer than the calyx. May, June. 

 Leaves, compound, alternate, three to five inches long. 

 Leaflets, fifteen to seventeen, about one inch long, 

 edge entire, marked with small dots. 

 Fruit, small, two-seeded. A pod. 

 Found, from Southern Pennsylvania southward, and far 



westward. 

 A shrub six to sixteen feet high. 



Lead-Plant. A. canescens, Nutt. 



This species differs from the preceding chiefly in these 

 items : 



Flowers, bright blue. 

 Leaflets, thirty-one to fifty-one, small (one and a half 



inches or less), crowded. 

 Fruit, one-seeded. 

 Found, westward. 



A pretty shrub, two to four feet high, taking its name 

 from a supposed liking for localities containing lead-ore. 



