422 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



ASTRAGALUS TENNESSIENSIS, Gray.---- (Tennessee Milk 

 Vetch). 



Calyx 5-toothed, corolla long and narrow ; standard narrow, equaling 

 or exceeding the wings and blunt keel ; its sides refiexed or spreading. 

 Pale yellow. Pod short and very thick appressed to the rocky soil in 

 which it grows. May. Cedar barrens. Very valuable. 



ASTRAGALUS CANADENSIS, I*. (Canada Milk Vetch]. 



Tall, pubescent; leaflets 21-31. oblong, obtuse, stipules ovate, clasp- 

 ing; peduncles as long as the leaves, closely many -flowered. Flowers 

 | inch long, pale yellow. Nashville. Rocks and cliffs of Cumberland 

 river. Good forage plant 



VICIA MICRANTHA, T$ntt.~(Small Flowered Vetch}. 



Calyx tubular, 5-cleft, style filiform, hairy at the apex. Smooth, 

 leaflets 4-6 linear, obtuse ; peduncles 1 2 flowered. Flowers minute, 

 pale blue ; legume sabre shaped, 4-10 seeded. Thickets. Common. 

 April. Good. 



VICIA CAROLINIAN A, Walt.(OiroKna Vetch). 



Leaflets 8-24 oblong, obtuse, scarcely mucronate peduncles loosely 

 flowered : calyx teeth very short. With the preceding. May. Very 

 good. 



VICIA AMERICANA, Muhl. 



Leaflets 10-14 elliptical or ovate, oblong very obtuse many veined; 

 peduncles 4-8-flowered. Flowers purplish, 8 lines long, showy. The 

 Vicias are climbing, tendril bearing, and all equally valuable. The last 

 deserves to be cultivated. 



STYLOSANTHES ELATIOR, S war tz.--( Pencil Flower). 



Yellow flowering, low ; perennial; branched from the base with wiry 

 stems, pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, the small orange yellow flowers in 

 few flowered clusters. June October. Cattle feed upon it. 







LESPEDEZA REPENS, Torr & Gray. (Creeping Bush Clover). 



Calyx 5-cleft ; the lobes nearly equal, slender, stamens diadelphous. 

 Pods of a single, one-seeded joint, oval or roundish, flat, reticulated ; 



