LEGUMINOS^E 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: swamps. 



THE PLANT: climbing from a tuberous, underground stem; 

 two to three feet long, slender, without hairs or with short, 

 soft ones. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; divided into five to seven (rarely 

 three) leaflets; leaflets ovate, or ovate-lanceolate; one inch 

 to three inches long; hairless on both surfaces; acute or 

 acutish at the apex; rounded at the base; petioled. 



THE FLOWER-HEADS: in racemes in the axils of the leaves 

 on short peduncles, violet centered. 



THE FRUIT: a linear pod, straight or slightly curved, some- 

 times four inches long, many seeded. 



A beautiful climber, with five to seven leaflets, arranged 

 along the axis, like the pinions of a feather. The vine 

 is not in the least fastidious but will spread luxuriantly 

 over bayberry or sweet-pepper-bush or goldenrod, twining 

 itself around the branches. 



Twenty-one other members of the Pulse Family have 

 been reported. 



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