PEA FAMILY 



every branching joint of stalk and stem is sheathed 

 with a stipule having a pair of long, curving, needle- 

 like points; the three soft, thin leaflets which form the 

 compound leaf flare from a very short petiole. 



The cylindrical flower-heads at close range are of 

 exquisite beauty. Their color is gray-green flushed 

 with pink, supported and enveloped 

 by the delicate gray-green fohage 

 which gives them a background. 

 The long hairs, white or pink, throw 

 such a shimmer over all that the 

 colors are elusive, changing with the 

 light; and so soft, so velvety, so al- 

 together adorable are they that one 

 wonders such httle gray heads can 

 hold so much beauty. 



SWEET CLOVER 



Melilotus dlba 

 Melilotus, Greek, a honey-bearing plant. 



Biennial. Naturalized from Europe. 

 Growing along roadsides and in waste 

 places. Cultivated under the name of 

 Bokhara Clover. Everywhere. June- 

 Sweet cioverr October. 



Mdildtus dlba ^, ^ ^ . ^ • r ^ t.- v 



citetn. — Erect, three to six feet high. 

 Leaves. — Alternate, pinnately three-foliate; leaflets 

 oblong or slightly oblanceolate, finely serrate, notched or 

 rounded at apex. 



Flowers. — White, papilionaceous, borne in slender ra- 

 cemes, two to six inches long; racemes often one-sided. 

 Pod. — Ovoid, wrinkled, one to two-seeded. 

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