PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 



leaflets, usually toothed; stipules adhering to the leaf- 

 stalks; flowers in heads or spikes; stamens usually in two 

 sets of nine and one; pods small, mostly enclosed in the 

 calyx, usually with one to six seeds. 



This is very common from the coast to 

 Clover the sj erra foothills, but there are many 



tridentatum named varieties. It is smooth all over 



Purple and grows from eight inches to two feet 



Spring, summer high, with spreading stems and narrow 

 Cal.,0reg., Wash. j ea fl ets> wn i c h are toothless, or have teeth 

 and bristles on the edges. The pinkish-purple flowers 

 form a broad head, over an inch across, with an involucre. 



This has queer-looking flowers and is 

 Sour Clover 



Trifdlium fucatum cons P }CUOUS on that account. The 

 Cream-color branching stems are a foot or more tall, 



Spring, summer the stipules are large, with papery margins, 

 Wash.,Oreg.,Cal. and the leaves are bright gree n, with a 



paler spot near the middle of each of the leaflets, which are 

 toothed, or sometimes only bristly on the edges, and the 

 flowers form a head about an inch and a quarter across, 

 with a broad involucre. The calyx is very small and the 

 corolla is cream-color, becoming much inflated and chang- 

 ing to deep pink as the flower withers. The effect of the 

 cluster is curiously puffy and odd in color. This grows 

 rankly in low alkaline and brackish places. 



There are many kinds of Psoralea, widely distributed; 

 ours are perennial herbs, without tendrils, the leaves with 

 three or five leaflets, with glandular dots on them and 

 usually bad-smelling. The flowers are white or purplish, 

 and the pod is short, with only one seed. 



. This is a rather pleasing plant, for the 



fornia Tea foliage is pretty, though the flowers are 



Psoralea physbdes too dull in color to be effective. It is 

 White almost smooth all over, a foot or more tall, 



Spring, summer {th several spread i ng stems and rich 

 Cal., Oreg., Wash. 



green leaves, thin in texture and giving 



out a rather pleasant aromatic smell when crushed. The 

 flowers are less than half an inch long, with a somewhat 

 hairy calyx, covered with dots and becoming inflated in 

 fruit, and a yellowish-white corolla, more or less tinged with 

 purple. This is common in the woods of the Coast 

 Ranges. The foliage was used as tea by the early settlers. 

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