THE PEA FAMILY. 273 



On a first glance at this plant there is little indeed to make one realise that 

 it is a member of the pea family. Its many flowers grouped in heads with 

 conspicuous involucres, remintl us more strongly of the great and varied 

 army of composites. Ikit on dissecting one of the small blossoms it will be 

 found that nowhere else than just where it is could it be relegated with a 

 good conscience. It grows through sandy, dry barrens and is very pretty. 



LOOSELY=FLOWERED GOAT'S RUE. 



Crcicca spicata. 



Fhnvcrs : growing on sliort, terminal and lateral loosely-flowered peduncles. 

 Calyx: with five unequal, pointed and silky lobes. Corolln : jjapilionacetjus, the 

 petals clawed. I^ods : flat ; narrow ; on short peduncles ; finely jjuhuscent. 

 Leaves: compound with small, pointed and densely pubescent stipules; odd-pin- 

 nate with from nine t(j fifteen oval, or obovate leaflets with very sliort, hairy 

 petiolules, rounded at the base, the apex terminating in a bristle-tip ; entire ; 

 glabrous above at maturity and closely covered underneath with short hairs. Stem: 

 tlecumbent ; one to two feet long ; branched and covered with long, brownish 

 hairs. 



Something the look of a wild hairy pea has this goat's rue, and even so it 

 cannot be claitned to be very pretty. The genus flourishes most lu.xuriously 

 in tropical climates and the best grown and most attractive examples that I 

 have seen of this particular species were I'n a strip of pine woods near Jack- 

 sonville, Florida. At night the leaflets tiu'n on their bases and go to 

 sleep. 



C. Virginidna, goat's rue, cat-gut, or hoary pea, has a range extending 

 from Florida to New England and westward to northern Mexico and 

 Minnesota and is a much more pleasing individual than the preceding 

 species, as its bright yellow and purple pea-shaped flowers are produced 

 abundantly in terminal racemes. Its leafage is slender and a silvery glow 

 is cast over the plant by the greyish tomentum which is apparent on nearly 

 all its parts. 



AMERICAN WISTARIA. KIDNEY BEAN TREE. 



{Plate LXXXIII) 

 KraiDiJiia frulcscois. 



Flcnvers : growing closely on pubescent pedicels in large, terminal racemes. 

 Calyx: companulate; two-lipped or with five unecpial teeth ; purplish and 

 covered with a fine silvery pubescence. Corolla : papilionaceous; the slandanl 



