192 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
with unequally pinnate vad ae & ae leaflets, and minute stipules, with 
lilac-colored flowers in large 
1. W. frutes’ Si DC. Wake of the corolla 2-auricled at iMiies 
ovary glabro 
Virginia, South and West. May. 
Woopy Wisrarra. Glycine. Carolina Kidney Bean. 
2. W. Cutnen’sts, DC. Wings of corolla ee, at base ; ovary hairy. 
Cultivated. Native of China. May. 
Cuingse Wistarra. Glycine. 
These beautiful vines, the one & native of the rich alluvial soils 
of the southern portion of the Union, and the other from China, are 
eminently worthy of cultivation. They both grow readily, are quite 
ly, and may be ie ei with the greatest ne The Chinese 
species is most generally cultivated, its flower racemes being much 
larger than in the native one; but the other is much darker — 
and has more fragrance. 
afl Fo oo ni ace L. a 
{A Latini pigntiaine 
Calyx 5-cleft ; ce oe Pex orbicular, emarginate ; keel 
with a subulate spur on each side—at length pig bent back yore 
ally. Stamens diadelphous. Style filiform, glabrous. Legume continu- 
= ds 
ous, 1- few- ~ truncate a both ends, Co es pied 
ed by cellular partitions. Herbaceous or Fruticose p 
various, usually oe stipules sicall 2 istinct — ars petiole, 
Flowers in axillary ra 
1. I. mincro’rm, L. gore suffruticose, erect ; young branches 
comm 
n petioles clothed with a cinereous pu ubescenice ; leaflets in 4 or 5 
d one, oval or blong, mucronate, 
petiolulate, somewhat pubescent beneath with whitish app 
racemes shorter than the leaves; legunies sub-terete, torulose, curved 
ownwards. 
Dyer’s Inpicorera. Indigo. Indigo-plant. 
Fr. UTndigotier. Germ. Die Indigopflanze. Span. Indigo. 
Annual or biennial. Stem 2-8 feet high, branching. Leaflets half an inch to an inch in 
length ; common petiole 2-3 inches long. Hacemes 1-2 inches long. Corolla purplish- 
blue. ” Legumes numerous, half an inch to three-quarters in length, defleatat “on the 
icel, ¢ 
Soames States : cultivated. Native ts Asia and Africa. 
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place ' abroad, ee et = curtailed = of Southern Agri- 
