PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 



An attractive plant, about a foot hig 

 Astragalus witn straggling, reddish stems and delica 



MacDougali foliage. The flowers are over half ; 



White, lilac i nc h long, with a hairy calyx and p? I 



f p . rmg lilac and white corolla, and form pret 



Arizona . ' 



clusters about two inches long. 



There are many kinds of Hedysarum, some from Afri 

 and only a few in this country; perennial herbs, sometirr 

 shrubby; the leaflets toothless, odd in number; the flowi : 

 in handsome racemes, with bracts, on stalks from the angj 

 of the stem; the calyx with five, nearly equal teeth; tl 

 standard rather large, round, or inverted heart-shapt i 

 narrow at base, the wings oblong, shorter than the stall 

 ard; the keel blunt, nearly straight, longer than the win.lj 

 the stamens in two sets of nine and one, not adhering j 

 the corolla; the pod long, flat, and oddly jointed ill 

 several, strongly-veined, one-seeded, roundish divisioM 

 which separate when ripe. The name is from the Grel 

 meaning "sweet-broom." 



- A very handsome and decorative plal 



pabnlare w ^ tn l ar g e brilliant flower-clusters, c I 



Pink trasting well with the foliage and makl 



Spring, summer spots of vivid color on dry plains <l 

 hillsides. It has many stems, spring! 

 from a rootstock, which are from eight to fifteen incl 

 long, yellowish-green, ridged, and covered with inc| 

 spicuous down, the leaflets are light bluish-green, thick: I 

 nine to seventeen in number, and the bracts are thin ; I 

 dry. The flowers are about three-quarters of an ill 

 long, with a pinkish-green and downy calyx, and I 

 corolla all bright deep pink, fading to blue, with a veil 

 standard. The pod has from three to five divisions, ll 

 flourishes at rather high altitudes, up to seven thousH 

 feet, and is conspicuously beautiful near the entrance!! 

 Ogden Canyon in Utah. 



There are a great many kinds of Trifolium, or Clo 

 difficult to distinguish; low herbs; leaves usually with tl 



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