PULSE FAMILY. Leguminosae. 



Another perennial cli mber , distinguished 

 Phaseoius ky its leaf of three leaflets pointed at the 



t>olystachyus tip and rounded at the base. The plant is 

 Red=purple very fine-hairy and considerably branched. 

 July-Septem- The fl ower -cluster is thin and about 4- 

 8 inches long ; the red-purple blossoms 

 are scarcely over % inch long. The pods are stalked, 

 drooping, and a trifle curved. Stem 5-12 feet long. In 

 thickets Me. , south, and west to Minn, and Neb. 



A similar, but annual species, with a 



Strophostyles , . . . . 



helvola low-twining stem about 6-8 feet long, the 



Greenish white leaflets sometimes bluntly lobed and some- 

 or purple times entire. The 3-10 greenish white or 



July-Septem- rec l-purple flowers about \ an inch long, 



in a loose cluster. The slender linear 

 pod is fine-hairy and about 3 inches long or less. 

 Stem branching at the base and about 4-8 feet long. 

 Sandy river-banks, and meadow borders, Mass., south, 

 and west along the Great Lakes to Minn., and south- 

 west to Kan. 



A dainty vine with delicate light green 

 Peanut leaves formed of three smooth, angularly 



Amphicarpcea ovate-pointed leaflets, and bearing two 

 monoica kinds of fruit. The perfect lilac or ma- 



Magenta=lilac g en ta-lilac narrow blossoms are in small 

 tember drooping clusters ; these are succeeded by 



many small pods about an inch long hold- 

 ing generally three mottled beans. The other fruitful 

 blossom is at the base or root of the plant in rudimen- 

 tary form with but few free stamens ; it is succeeded by 

 a pear-shaped pod containing one large seed hence the 

 name wild peanut. The name of the plant means both 

 and fruit, in reference to the two kinds of fruit. The 

 pod of the upper blossom is curved and broad at the tip, 

 it matures about the middle of September. The slender 

 stem twines about the roadside shrubbery, and is from 3- 

 7 feet long. Common everywhere in moist ground from 

 Me., to S. Dak., Neb., and La. Found in Campton, 

 N.H. 



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