PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 



PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 



A very large family, including many important plants 

 such as Clover, Alfalfa, Peas, and Beans; herbs, shrubs 

 vines, and trees, distinguished principally by the flower anc 

 fruit, resembling the butterfly-like corolla and simple poc 

 of the common Pea; leaves alternate, usually compound 

 with leaflets and stipules; calyx five- toothed or five-cleft 

 petals five. The upper petal, or "standard," large, cover 

 ing the others in the bud, the two at the sides standing out 

 like "wings," the two lower ones united by their edge 

 to form a "keel," enclosing the stamens, usually ten, ant 

 the single pistil with a curved style; the ovary superior. I 



There are numerous kinds of Anisolotus, widely dis 

 tributed, common, difficult to distinguish; mostly herbj| 

 some slightly shrubby; leaves with two or many, toothles: 

 leaflets; calyx- teeth nearly equal; petals with claws, fre 

 from the stamens, wings adhering to the keel, incurved 

 blunt or beaked; stamens joined by their filaments, in tw| 

 sets of one and nine, anthers all alike; style incurvec| 

 pods two-valved, often compressed between the seed: 

 never inflated. These plants have several common name: 

 such as Bird-foot, Trefoil, Cat's-clover, etc., and are calle 

 Crowtoes by Milton. 



A gay and charming kind, with smooti 

 stems ' s P readin g on the ground, ligtl 

 j mossimus g reen leaves, with five or more leaflet 

 (Lotus) and flowers about half an inch long, with ! 



(Hosackia) golden-yellow standard, pink or magent 



Finland yellow wings and wine . co l ored keelf f orm i ng I 



Wash., Oreg., Cal. flattish cluster, the contrasting colo j 

 giving a vivid effect. This grows in dair| 

 places along the sea-coast. 



A shrubby, branching plant, a foot ar ; 

 Bird-foot ft hal hi h f orm i ng a pre tty clump, jb 



Anisolotus * *. ' 



argyraeus (Lotus) or three feet across.^ with downy, gra; 

 (Hosackia) green stems and foliage, sprinkled wii 



Yellow clover-like heads of yellow flowers. Tlj 



p "f g . leaflets are slightly thickish, covered wr 



California 



silky down, the twigs and young leav 



silvery-white. The small flowers are a soft shade of warr 

 yellow, and the buds form neat, fuzzy, silvery balls. Tl: 

 grows on dry hillsides in the Catalina Islands. 



