PEA FAMILY. Fabaccae. 



inch or more long, with a pale, yellowish-green, downy 

 calyx and cream-white corolla, and form a fine cluster, 

 from four to ten inches long. The egg-shaped pods are 

 much inflated and almost papery, an inch or more long. 

 This grows on sea-cliffs and in sandy soil near the coast. 

 A pretty plant, unusual in coloring, 

 Pink Lady- the short stems spreading on the ground 



ieep ~ and springing from a short, perennial 

 Astragalus Tooi > the foliage all very pale bluish-gray, 



Utahensis covered with silvery down, the thickish 



pink leaflets from eleven to seventeen in num- 



Spring, summer, b th younger leaves and flower buds 

 autumn 

 Utah, Nev. almost white. The flowers are about an 



inch long, in loose clusters, with flower- 

 stalks from three to four inches long; the calyx long, 

 pinkish-gray and downy, the standard pale pink, the wings 

 deeper purplish-pink, the keel yellowish-pink. The pod 

 is short, leathery, woolly, and stemless. This grows in dry, 

 gravelly soil and in favorable situations makes low, circu- 

 lar clumps of foliage, suggesting the old-fashioned crochet 

 lamp-mats that we used to see in New England farm- 

 houses, for the pale leaves are symmetrically arranged in 

 neat clusters and ornamented at intervals with pink flowers. 

 Unlike, however, the worsted ornament, its coloring is 

 delicately harmonious and beautiful. 



A very slender plant, with trailing 



A strdgalus / 



nothoxys stems, one or two feet long, the leaflets 



Purple odd in number and downy on the under 



Spring s id e> The flowers are about half an inch 



nzona long* with a whitish, downy calyx and 



a bright purple corolla, shading to white at the base. This 

 grows in mountain canyons and looks a good deal like a 

 Vetch, except that it has no tendrils. 



This is a straggling plant, a foot and a 



Rattle-weed, half ^ smooth &u Q with stout stems 



Loco-weed 



Astragalus anc * many bluish-green leaflets. The 



pomonensis flowers are over half an inch long, with a 



Wh | te very pale calyx and yellowish-white 



^, p f!, ng . corolla, forming a rather pretty cluster, 



California 



about three inches long. The pods are 



each over an inch long and much inflated, forming a large 

 bunch, odd and very conspicuous in appearance. 

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