POPULAR FLORA. 



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a. Cahouna V. Smooth ; leaflets 8 to 12, oldono; ; flowers many, wliitish, tipped with blue, 

 rathier scattered 011 the peduncle, in spring. Hunks, kc, common. V. Caroliniitiia. 



3. American V. Smooth ; leaflets 10 to 14, oval or oblong, very veiny ; flowers 4 to 8 on the 



peduncle, purplish or hluisii, in summer. N. V. American'i. 



* * Annual : flowers large, one or two together, sessile in the axils of the leaves. 



4. Common Tare. Leaflets 10 to 14, narrow ; flowers violet-purple. Cultivated flelds. V. snttin. 





Bean. Phnsmlns. 



Keel of the corolla (with the included stamens and style) twisted or coiled, so as to furm a ring, 

 or one or more turns of a spiral coil. Stamens diadelphous. I'od flat or tiattish, sevt-ral-st't'ded. 

 Seeds flattisli. I'lants twining more or less, in one cultivated variety short and erect. Leaves of 

 3 leaflets, the end leaflet some way abov(3 the other two (('.('., pinnate of 3 leaflets) ; and tliey 

 have sHju/h or little stipules to the leaflets. Fl. summer. 



* Wild species : mostly found South and West. 

 1. Pehenm.m, I'.E.W. Climbing liigh ; leaflets round-ovate, pointed ; flowers in long panicled 

 racemes, purple ; juxls curved. Wooded banks, i^c. I', ptnutiin. 



•2. Traimnc; 15EAN. Annual, spreading on the ground; leaflets 3lobed or angled; flowers few, 

 crowded at llie end of a long erect peduncle, i)urpli.>ih ; pods narrow, straight. Siindy places. 



P. ilii-erstf'jliuit. 

 * * Cultivated I'cans. 



3. Common or Kidney IiEAN. Known by its straight pods, jiointed by the hardened lower part of 



the style, and tlie tliick rather kidney-shaped seetls. Tlie I)\^ARF or IJfsii P.EAN is a low ancl 

 small variety wliicli does not twine. The St'AUI.ET Rl'NNER is a fiee climbing variety, gene- 

 rally red-flowered. ]'. vii/i/drin. 



4. Lima IJean. Known by its broad and flat, curved or scymitar-shapcd pods, with few and large 



flat seeds. Tiie Civet 1>ea\ is a small variety of it. i^ huuttus. 



False-Indigo. Baptism. 



Flowers generally in racemes. Standard erect, with tlie sides ndled back : keel-petals nearly 

 separate and straight, like the wings. Stamens 10, separate. Pods stalked in tlie calyx, bladdery, 

 hut rather thick-walled, ]>ointed, containing many small seeds. I'erentiial herbs, erect and 

 Tbranched, with i)ahnate leaves of 3 leaflets. The commonest are the following : — 



1. Yellow False Indigo. Glaucous, bushy-branched; leaves almost sessile; leaflets small, 



wedge-obovate ; flowers few at the ends of the pauicled branchlets, yellow, produced all 

 summer. Dry grounds, common. B, tinctdria. 



2. Blue F. Tall and stout ; stipules lance-shaped, as long as the petiole ; leaflets wedge-oblong ; 



flowers many, huge, blue, in a long raceme, in si)ring or early summer. (Fig. 354, 355.) Rich 

 soil ; common W. and S. and also cultivated in gardens. B. austral is. 



Senna. Cassia. 



Calyx of 5 sepals. Petals 5, spreading, not papilionaceous, hue a little irregular. Stamens 10, 

 but those on one side of the blossom commonly shorter, or without anthers ; tlie anthers open at 

 the top by two chinks or holes. Pods many-seeded. 'Leav-s simply and abruptly pinnate. Tha 

 common specie." are lierbs, with yellow flowers, in summer. 



