PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 



inch or more long, with a pale, yellowish-green, dowr 

 calyx and cream-white corolla, and form a fine clustf 

 from four to ten inches long. The egg-shaped pods a 

 much inflated and almost papery, an inch or more lor 

 This grows on sea-cliffs and in sandy soil near the coas 

 A pretty plant, unusual in colorin 

 Pink Lady- the short stems spreading on the groui 



fingers, Sheep- and springing from a short) p ere nni 



Astragalus rooi > the folia g e a11 Ver 7 P ale bluish-gra 



Utahensis covered with silvery down, the thicki 



Pink leaflets from eleven to seventeen in nut 



Spring, summer, ^. the younger leaves and flower bu| 

 Utah, Nev. almost white. The flowers are about ; 



inch long, in loose clusters, with flowc 

 stalks from three to four inches long; the calyx lorj 

 pinkish-gray and downy, the standard pale pink, the win! 

 deeper purplish-pink, the keel yellowish-pink. The pi| 

 is short, leathery, woolly, and stemless. This grows in di 

 gravelly soil and in favorable situations makes low, circ 

 lar clumps of foliage, suggesting the old-fashioned croch 

 lamp-mats that we used to see in New England fan 

 houses, for the pale leaves are symmetrically arranged i 

 neat clusters and ornamented at intervals with pink flowe 

 Unlike, however, the worsted ornament, its coloring 

 delicately harmonious and beautiful. 



A very slender plant, with traili 



Astragalus . , .tin' 



nothoxys stems, one or two feet long, the learn 



Purple odd in number and downy on the unc 



Spring side. The flowers are about half an in 



Arizona long, with a whitish, downy calyx a 



a bright purple corolla, shading to white at the base. Tl| 

 grows in mountain canyons and looks a good deal likel 

 Vetch, except that it has no tendrils. 



This is a straggling plant, a foot ancj 



Rattle-weed, half ^ smoot h a n over w j t h stout Stei 



Loco-weed 1 , 1 1 n * T\ 



Astragalus and man Y bluish-green leaflets. 



pomonensis flowers are over half an inch long, witn 



White very pale calyx and yellowish-wh! 



corolla, forming a rather pretty clust 

 about three inches long. The pods 

 each over an inch long and much inflated, forming a laij 

 bunch, odd and very conspicuous in appearance. 

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