PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 



There are several kinds of Thermopsis, of North America 

 and Asia; stout, perennial herbs, with woody rootstocks' 

 leaflets three; stipules conspicuous, leaf -like; flowers large, 

 yellow, with short, bracted flower-stalks; calyx bell-shaped 

 five-cleft; standard broad, in the western species, shortei 

 than the oblong wings, keel nearly straight, blunt, th( 

 same length as the wings; stamens ten, separate, curving 

 in; style slightly curving in, stigma small; pod flat, long o: 

 oblong, straight or curved, with a very short stalk anc 

 several seeds. Thermopsis, sometimes called False Lupine 

 is distinguished from Lupinus by its stamens, which ar< 

 separate, instead of united into a sheath. The Greeljj 

 name means "lupine-like." 



A very handsome, thrifty-looking plant i 



Buck-bean* at>OUt tw feet Hgh ' the smooth > bri S h i 



Tkermdpsk reen foliage contrasting finely with thj 



mont&na clusters of clear yellow flowers, each abouk 



Yellow three-quarters of an inch long. The erecij 



Spring, summer straight pods two or three inches lon 1 

 Northwest, Utah, 



Ariz are silky and also the calyxes and bud:^ 



This thrives in the mountains, up to a| 

 altitude of nine thousand feet, in somewhat moist spot: fa 

 and its fresh coloring is most attractive. The foliage seerrW 

 to me to be especially handsome in northern Arizona, btj 

 these plants are also beautiful in the Utah canyons. Tb 

 flowers are scentless and last a long time in water. j| 

 Calif arnica has silvery, silky foliage and is common in 

 California, in damp ground in the hills. 



There are many kinds of Parosela, of western Nort Ij 

 America, Mexico, and the Andes, no one sort commoi J 

 generally shrubs; leaves almost always compound; leafle i 

 odd in number, small, toothless, with minute stipule! 

 often with glandular dots; flowers small, in terminal cluji 

 ters; calyx with nearly equal, long, occasionally feathej j 

 teeth ; corolla with wings and keel longer than the standar j 

 their claws adhering to the lower part of the stamen- tub Ij 

 but the claw of the small, heart-shaped standard freB 

 stamens nine or ten, filaments united, anthers alike ; oval'l 

 with a short stalk, or none, style awl-shaped; pod small 

 membranous, included in the calyx, usually with one see J 

 P. spinbsa, the Smoke Tree, or Ghost Tree, of westell 

 Arizona, is almost leafless, with grayish or whitish branch j 

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