PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 



This is only a few inches high, with 

 Anisoldtusstrigd- s i ender slightly downy stems, branching 

 sus (Lotus) -,,.,, , 



(Hosackid) an( * spreading, and bright green leaves, 



Yellow with seven or more, small, narrow leaflets, 



Spring, summer, slightly thickish, with some minute, bristly 



autumn hairg> The few flowers are a bout a 



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quarter of an inch long, mostly single, 



bright yellow, tinged with red, fading to orange, and have 

 a sort of miniature prettiness. This grows in the south. 



An attractive little perennial, forming 

 Bird-foot J QW c i um p S harmonious in coloring, of 



Anisoldtus aecum- . ,. . t , - 



bens (Lotus) P ale gray-green, downy foliage, sprinkled 



(Hosackia) with small clusters of charming little 



Yellow flowers, each less than half an inch long, 



Summer various shades of yellow, and arranged in a 



Northwest 



circle. The pods are hairy and it grows on 



sunny, sandy slopes. 



Though the flowers are small and the 



Deer-weed foliage scanty, the shaded effect of mingled 



Anisoldtus gibber . "T 



( Lotus ) yellow and orange of these plants is rather 



(Hosackia) pretty, as we see them by the wayside, 



Yellow and orange The many, long, smooth, reed-like stems 

 All seasons w f rom two to g ve f eet ^igh branching 



California 



from the root, somewhat woody below, 



loosely spreading, or sometimes half lying on the ground. 

 The leaves are almost smooth, very small and far apart, 

 with from three to six, oblong leaflets, and the flowers, 

 from a quarter to half an inch long, are clustered in close 

 little bunches along the stem, forming long wands, tipped 

 with green buds, and shading downward through the bright 

 yellow of the larger buds to the orange of the open flowers 

 and the dull red of the faded ones. The pod is incurved, 

 tipped with the long style. This is common and widely 

 distributed, a perennial, but said to live only two or three 

 years. In the south it often makes symmetrical little 

 bushes, pleasing in appearance. It is a valuable bee- 

 plant. A. Wrightii of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and 

 Colorado, is quite leafy, with erect stems and branches, 

 bushy and woody at base, the small leaflets from three to 

 five in number. The flowers, without pedicles, are much 

 like the last, but over half an inch long, yellow becoming 

 reddish, with a blunt keel, and scattered all over the plant. 

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