PEA FAMILY. Fabaceac. 



An attractive plant, about a foot high, 

 Astragalus with stra ggh'ng, reddish stems and delicate 



MacDougdli foliage. The flowers are over half an 



White, lilac mc h long, with a hairy calyx and pale 



Sprmg lilac and white corolla, and form pretty 



Arizona . , , 



clusters about two inches long. 



There are many kinds of Hedysarum, some from Africa 

 and only a few in this country; perennial herbs, sometimes 

 shrubby; the leaflets toothless, odd in number; the flowers 

 in handsome racemes, with bracts, on stalks from the angles 

 of the stem; the calyx with five, nearly equal teeth; the 

 standard rather large, round, or inverted heart-shaped, 

 narrow at base, the wings oblong, shorter than the stand- 

 ard; the keel blunt, nearly straight, longer than the wings; 

 the stamens in two sets of nine and one, not adhering to 

 the corolla; the pod long, flat, and oddly jointed into 

 several, strongly-veined, one-seeded, roundish divisions, 

 which separate when ripe. The name is from the Greek, 

 meaning "sweet-broom." 



A very handsome and decorative plant, 



Hedysarum . . .... 



Pabvl&re with large brilliant flower-clusters, con- 



Pink trasting well with the foliage and making 



Spring, summer spots of vivid color on dry plains and 

 hillsides. It has many stems, springing 

 from a rootstock, which are from eight to fifteen inches 

 long, yellowish-green, ridged, and covered with incon- 

 spicuous down, the leaflets are light bluish-green, thickish, 

 nine to seventeen in number, and the bracts are thin and 

 dry. The flowers are about three-quarters of an inch 

 long, with a pinkish-green and downy calyx, and the 

 corolla all bright deep pink, fading to blue, with a veined 

 standard. The pod has from three to five divisions. This 

 flourishes at rather high altitudes, up to seven thousand 

 feet, and is conspicuously beautiful near the entrance to 

 Ogden Canyon in Utah. 



There are a great many kinds of Trifolium, or Clover, 

 difficult to distinguish; low herbs; leaves usually with three 



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