PEA FAMILY 



(Leguminosci) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate, usually compound 

 leaves with stipules, and flowers often papilionaceous, that is, 

 with one petal (called the banner or standard) conspicuously 

 larger than the others and turned backward or spreading. 

 Stamens usually ten, sometimes united below into a tube about 

 the pistil; sometimes nine so united and one distinct; sometimes 

 all distinct. Fruit a legume, that is, like a pea-pod. 



LUPINE (Luplnus Stiver sii, Kellogg). Flowers with a yellow 

 banner fading to salmon, and rose-pink lateral petals, disposed 

 in a terminal raceme; leaves compound,- with several narrow 

 finger-like leaflets radiating from a . common centre; plant, 

 annual, 6 inches to 1| feet high. 



This strikingly handsome flower, blooming in summer, is 

 one of the noticeable wildings of the Yosemite Valley and the 

 Sierra Nevada of Central California. It is also reported 

 from a few places in the Coast Ranges, but seems to be no- 

 where abundant. A species with all the petals yellow (L. 

 citrinus, Kellogg) sometimes is found in the same range. 



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